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Cool NASA Tech That Will Never See Space
coondoggie writes to tell us that with the "new and improved" NASA budget on the way it looks like many of the cool projects NASA has in the works will never see the light of day, let alone space. The biggest cut looks to be the Ares heavy lift rocket but other cuts include a new composite spacecraft, deep space network, inflatable lunar habitat, and an electric moon-buggie.
Republicans may have it right on this one..
Use up all the resources we have in the USA, thus space will be more inviting
Scorched earth baby, WOO!
and Texas
That's OK, they're all Republicans anyway.
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The Obama administration is a JOKE!
Oh lol look on every article lulz haha see lets make a tweet and send it 2 all R friendz lol.
What a frelling waste now. Slashdot == Digg DIE IN A FIRE SLASHDOT
Don't blame me - I voted for the American!
And by "change economic direction of the past", you mean, vote out the democrats who have been in power since 2006, and return the Republicans to power, right?
An unpopular sentiment on Slashdot, but the "new" democrats, epitomized in Obama, have put this country on the fast track (within a decade) to national bankruptcy.
Mark my words, without a change in direction, we will end up close to 100% debt-to-GDP, and then China will start a trade war with the view that a trade war will hurt them less then us. Thankfully, however, it seems that the American voter has tired of the democrats, and we'll safely have the adults back in charge this November. Better yet, Obama will remain president, and given that the job market won't recover till 2013+, we'll have another Reagan revolution in 2012.
And Republicans will be around to take the credit for the recovery.
Say what you will about Bush's pre-2006 economic policies, he left the national debt situation better off than Clinton did.
WhiteWolf666 an exBush supporter. All you new-school,compassionate,save the children Republicans can rot in hell
What gets me is not so much the fact that we'll be using commercial rockets to get to the ISS, but that we now have no strategy for getting back to the Moon and/or going to Mars.
When I told my 10-year-old daughter that Obama had killed the program that was her best chance to travel to the Moon or Mars, she literally started crying. How am I supposed to keep her interested in math and science in school when the only thing she's ever wanted to do has been taken away from her?
Yes, I know her actual chance of going was pretty slim, but at least there was a chance. And that was enough to encourage her to work hard in school. Now what? Now she doesn't know what she wants to do and that means a higher chance of her ending up flipping burgers instead of pursuing her dreams.
Fuck you, Obama, and your nearsightedness.
I void warranties.
Obama gets hammered for not putting health care debate on CNN. So, he takes it out on the people that started the whole satellite idea. Just that simple.
They don`t have money to explore space but they do have money to blow up poor people.