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DIRECT Post-Shuttle Plan Pitched To Obama Team
FleaPlus writes "Popular Mechanics reports that a 'renegade' group including NASA engineers has met with President-Elect Obama's space transition team to present information on the DIRECT architecture for launching NASA missions after the Space Shuttle is retired. According to the group, DIRECT's Jupiter launch system will be safer, less expensive, better-performing, and be ready sooner than the Ares launch system NASA is currently developing, while still providing jobs for much of the existing shuttle workforce. Meanwhile, it's expected that current NASA head and adamant Ares supporter Michael Griffin will be replaced by a new NASA administrator."
The only person here more of a wanker than you is the person who modded you up. Despite what your snide little remark suggests, there is plenty of development done on a rocket before the assembled thing is delivered to the launchpad. Either you are completely ignorant of how space flight works or you are just being a dick to fill the void of inadequacy at the core of your being. Either way, STFU.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
Yes, if only he could be as smart as you conservatives who voted in Bush twice. Hey moron, we have these problems because of the jackass you voted in. You have no right to tell americans what to do after what your ideology has cost us. American Conservatism is dead and you are a sad and pathetic archaic leftover. Your sig shows your pathetic false victim mentality. Perhaps you can enlighten us also on the evil liberal media out to get you and how the triliateral commision with the UN is going to take over.
Please go back to you Rush and Hannity talking points, as you cant think for yourself.
God damn it! I wish I had my mod points. Thanks for that one.
But, you do know you're going to Hell for lampooning the Chosen One, right?
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
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