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NASA Contractors Censoring Saturn V Info

Posted by kdawson on from the should-never-have-released-those-pr-stills dept.

cybrpnk2 writes "Get ready to surrender your data sheets, study reports and blueprints of the Saturn V to stay in compliance with ITAR. Armed guards are reportedly taking down and shredding old Saturn V posters from KSC office walls that show rough internal layouts of the vehicle, and a Web site that is a source for various digitized blueprints has been put on notice it may well be next. No word yet if the assignment of a Karl Rove protege high up in NASA has any connection."

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  1. Re:Protecting their IP? by segedunum · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Tells you something about R&D if that 'edge' is 40+ years old...
    Well yer. You only need to look at that piece of shite called Orion, that NASA thinks will get them back to the Moon and even Mars. It's basically just Apollo concepts plus 40 years, and gets into space and to the Moon in pretty much exactly the same way as Apollo.

    It's still colossally expensive, it still isn't more reliable and it still isn't easier. There are no new fuels being developed and no new concepts. The future of space travel belongs to the private sector.
  2. Bush = Evil Censor = Censor Foxnews by sbate · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Lets make sure that Fox news web site does not have any of this data because they would only use it for EVIL.

    --
    Added Pressly: "Oh, and by the way, milk is nothing but liquid meat."
  3. Re:private sector by Dare+nMc · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They used the supergun and shot 'em there....

    hmm, I'll bet thats how Bin Ladden got away with all of Iraq's WMD's. He shot them to the moon in IRAQ's supergun (along with the supergun, for the return trip don't ask me how, thats why it's a super gun.)
  4. Re:WTF??? How do you take down? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And "Neo Cons"?? Where the hell did this come from??

    It's a racial epithet for "Jews in the Pentagon"