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NASA's New Mission to the Moon
mattnyc99 writes "Popular Mechanics has a new, in-depth preview of NASA's Orion spacecraft, tracking the complex challenges facing the engineers of the CEV (which NASA chief Michael Griffin called 'Apollo on steroids') as America shifts its focus away from the Space Shuttle and back toward returning to the moon by 2020. After yesterday's long op-ed in the New York Times concerning NASA's about-face, Popular Mechanic's interview with Buzz Aldrin and podcast with Transterrestrial.com's Rand Simberg raise perhaps the most pressing questions here: Is it worth going back to the lunar surface? And will we actually stay there?"
The fed gov't has a lot of extra money and they need a rat hole to pour it down.
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What a waste of money, we're still burning oil and coal for our power needs, place the equivalent money NASA is going to spend into R&D for renewable energy and alternate energy!
Bush has spent enough on the Afghan and Iraq war to fully replace America's addiction to oil, the equivalent money could have built a bio-desiel algae infrastructure and made America independent!!!
Solve our problems here on Earth first before going to the moon!