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US Not Getting Money's Worth From ISS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the give-ya-five-bucks-for-it dept.

greysky writes "On the 45th anniversary of his first trip into space, astronaut John Glenn says the U.S. is not getting it's money's worth out of the International Space Station. From the article: "Diverting money from the orbiting research outpost to President Bush's goal of sending astronauts back to the moon and eventually on to Mars is preventing some scientific experiments on the space station"."

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  1. Nice Spin, Fox News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Also from the article:

    He said he supports the president's moon and Mars goals, but not at the expense of the space station... From that and the blurb in the summary, it sounds like he's saying we should be spending more on the ISS. But TFA (and summary) make it sound like he's saying it's some kind of money pit.

    Nice "no spin zone" you got there.

  2. We've never gotten our money's worth out of space by Bob+Uhl · · Score: -1, Troll
    We've not gotten our money's worth out of space, period. Space has been a boondoggle from the beginning. Yes, some neat technologies have come out of the space programme, but they are worth orders of magnitude less than the money poured in. John Derbyshire has written two excellent articles, one in 2005 and one in 2004 about the pointlessness of the space programme.

    Sure, space is exciting and romantic, but it's a bloody enormous waste of money.

  3. OTOH Iraq is paying off handsomely by melted · · Score: -1, Troll

    On the other hand, Iraq is paying off handsomely. Remember this next time you vote for someone. Don't elect dyslexic retarded cowboys into public offices.

  4. Re:oblig. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have to wonder if that was the intent when 'putting men back on the moon' was announced. Its no secret that the current administration would like to stifle if not halt 'ALL' science it sees as not in line with certain agendas of administration supporters.

    I recall when they first announed 'putting men back on the moon', I was genuinely excited that they were taking steps in the right direction with the space program. Low and behold, I once again put to much hope this administration as having an ounce of legitimate purpose and initiative. I should have realized that 'putting men back on the moon', was really 'redirect current funding from current ongoing scientific experiments to PLANS for moon exploration'.

    I seriously doubt our new 'moon exploration' will actually go through as scheduled, thanks to the extreme politicization this exploratory science has now absorbed.

    Thanks GOP. Just when I thought you couldn't kill dreams, you shine on through where you shouldn't.

  5. Re:oblig. by encoderer · · Score: 0, Troll

    You spelled "Jale" wrong.