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State of Alabama Fighting NASA's New Plan

Posted by kdawson on from the shackles-on-the-cash-cow dept.

FleaPlus writes "Alabama politicians have formed a 'task force' dedicated to fighting NASA's new plans to cancel the costly Constellation/Ares program, which is largely based in Alabama. The chronically mismanaged Constellation project attempted to build new rockets in-house and replicate an Apollo-style lunar program with minimal investment in new technologies. NASA's new boosted budget revives formerly suppressed R&D efforts into critical technologies needed for a sustainable push towards Mars and intermediate waypoint destinations, works with (instead of trying to compete with) existing commercial rockets to transport cargo/crew to orbit, and funds a stream of robotic precursor missions to scout other worlds and demonstrate new technologies. The Alabama task force fighting the new plan includes former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin and former Ares project manager Steve Cook."

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  1. Widespread opposition to a vacuous plan by amightywind · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is only the beginning. There is widespread opposition to Obama's vacuous plan. America doesn't want to it's space legacy of the past 50 years in the hands of neophyte startups like SpaceX.

    The headline ridicules this task force but has nothing to say about the Bolsheviks in the Augustine commission. Constellation was so "chronically mismanaged" that Ares 1X flew successfully as planed! How's that SpaceX Falcon 9 coming?

    Like Obama's policy on Gitmo, Muslim Terror, the economy, Healthcare, etc., this new NASA policy is destined to go down in flames. It is 2 years 10 months and counting until Obama's administration blows up on the pad.

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  2. Alabama is good at some things by Your+Anus · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Will it involve spraying black people with firehoses? Because they know how to do that in Alabama.

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  3. How is this modded funny? by tjstork · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah lets make fun of southerners, when we could just as easily look at the long story of blacks hating space spending. I mean, if we're going to make fun of white people, let's have a look at the other side.

    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081129115539AABRPXx

    http://www.niggaknow.com/technology/white-people-dont-know-shit-about-space/

    http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080911165052AAbljAt

    http://ericstoller.com/blog/2008/09/09/space-race-matters/

    and it goes on and on...

    and then you have Obama's own plan to cut NASA manned space flight and dole out bucks to the third world...

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  4. Re:Well, shoot, son by Idiomatick · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    http://www.curefaith.com/2009/02/state-religion-vs-iq.html -- That shows Alabama is stupid, and being 2nd in religion shows ignorance. Cheers.