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Obama Backs New Launcher and Bigger NASA Budget

Posted by kdawson on from the most-systems-go dept.

The AAAS's ScienceInsider confidently reports that NASA is in line to receive $1 billion more next year. Reader coop0030 sends this quote: "President Barack Obama will ask Congress next year to fund a new heavy-lift launcher to take humans to the Moon, asteroids, and the moons of Mars... The president chose the new direction for the US human space flight program Wednesday at a White House meeting with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, according to officials familiar with the discussion. NASA would receive an additional $1 billion in 2011 both to get the new launcher on track and to bolster the agency's fleet of robotic Earth-monitoring spacecraft."

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  1. Hopefully by Cornwallis · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the first payload to the moon in the new launcher will be the entire Congress. One way.

    1. Re:Hopefully by m0s3m8n · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      No, how about giving them front row seats in the flame diverter trench instead. At least they would have NO CHANCE of coming back.

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    2. Re:Hopefully by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Throw in the POTUS and the SCOTUS (just 10 more people) and you've got a deal.

  2. MORE FUNDS?! by spiffydudex · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    All this funding is going to come from where?! More and more printing of money is just going to create a massive hole that will utterly ruin and destroy the US Dollar. I for one did not vote for this President his "Change" was never specified in his campaign. Well, here it is. McCain may have not been my ideal choice, but at least I knew exactly what he was going to do before he got into office. Hell, just 2 days ago Obama signed $1.1 trillion more in spending, on a whim. WTF?

    1. Re:MORE FUNDS?! by Kohath · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      The "Iraq war" has been about 1/15th of the Federal budget since the war began. What about the other 14/15ths of the budget?

      You obviously don't care about the budget at all and are just repeating anti-war talking-points. You are also off topic.

    2. Re:MORE FUNDS?! by Conanymous+Award · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      Biden? He's goofy, but not stupid. Palin is scary. A she-Bush on steroids. (Or should I say estrogen?)

  3. China Conquers the Solar System by Baldrson · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So now China buys SpaceX, turns on its rice-in-manufactured-stuff-out formula to mass produce the Falcon 9 Heavy and conquers the solar system while Obama hands out funny money to his buddies' buddies' buddies'.

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  4. I've seen too many web ads by RobertB-DC · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I've clearly seen too many web ads. When I saw the article title "Obama Backs New Launcher and Bigger NASA Budget", I immediately conjured up other gems such as "Obama tells moms to go back to school", "Obama backs auto insurance reform, find cheaper rates", and "Obama will destroy us all". (Oh, nvm, that last one was from my daughter's Teabagger boyfriend, sry.)

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  5. Scalia's corpse would burn for days... by FatSean · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The flame would be visible from space, much like the Luxor's light.

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