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NASA Moon Launch May Be Delayed After 2020
krou writes "The Guardian is reporting that NASA is quietly revising its internal estimates of a 2018 launch for its Ares V rocket. Although publicly the date given for the launch was 2020, the internal launch date was set for 2018. The shift in dates seems to be linked to 'growing budget woes,' and 'engineers say that means the public 2020 date to send humans back to the moon is in deepening trouble.' NASA administrator Mike Griffin blamed the White House, and the previous Bush administration, saying funding for Ares V and other projects fell from $4bn through 2015 to just $500m. 'This was to be allocated to early work on the Ares V heavy-lifter, and the Altair lunar lander. With only a half-billion dollars now available, this work cannot be done.'"
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A troll is a false statement. What I said about both the administrations as well as the incestuous relationships between governance, agencies and business are a matter of public record. Several stories regarding NASA with just this plot line are included in the single most complete independent web site covering space program history, Encyclopedia Astronautica http://www.astronautix.com/ The statements I made are echoes of project managers and staff from axed programs over the last half century quoted in books, articles and personal interviews. There is no shortage of them because there are far more axed programs than successful ones. To support my assertions, look up the proposals NASA rejected for what has become the Constellation system and Ares launcher -- the early proposals from BigAero were based on existing or planned boosters such as upgraded Delta and Atlas.
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
People forget that he was the guy that got international relations to a point where not even Ronnie Raygun could restart the cold war.
Is that what Ron Paul would be called, if he were a moon?
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.