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NASA Shuttle Replacement's Problems Are Worsening
ausoleil noted that NASA's replacement for the shuttle, the Orion, is slipping behind schedule "'We're probably going to have to move our target date,' NASA exploration chief Doug Cooke told The Associated Press on Wednesday after Nasawatch.com posted the 117-page internal status report (PDF) on the moon program. The cost problems include an $80 million overrun on a motor system. The Orion spacecraft's design remains too heavy for the proposed Ares 1 rocket. Software development, heat shield testing and other complex work remain behind schedule or over budget. There are dozens of such serious challenges, many of which are 'worsening.'"
Excellent. Let's do the same with the Iraq war.
This is the same Congressional budget tapping that has American taxpayers footing bills for close to $1 trillion dollars in war funding, among other awesome policy debacles. But hey, $1 trillion carries the sunk cost fallacy to a new level.
Sorry, now .
But the people of the US were crying out for us to invade Iraq! Remember all those protests demanding it?