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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. Well, shoot, son by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now, I dun know so much about rockets and flyin' to the moon and all that, but hooey, when you wanna start talkin' bout putting some downhome good ol' boys out of work, well, sir, I just gotta speak my mind. This ain't a threat, son. You take those jobs away from us here and God Almighty help us, we ain't gonna have nothin better to do than march on up to Washington and have us an ol' fashioned conference with each individual congresscritter that 'pposed us. Alabama style.

    You catch my drift, fellas?

    1. Re:Well, shoot, son by yndrd1984 · · Score: 3, Funny

      As someone who was born and raised in alabama.

      I believe that you were educated in Alabama. Your poorly capitalized sentence fragment gives it away.

      Sorry, I couldn't resist. :)

  2. Lets Not Pay Any Taxes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Let the Chinese and the Iraqis pay for our Army and National Defense. Let the Europeans pay for the cost of our bureaucracy, the Mexicans the cost of our sewage disposal, and the Columbians for the cost of our police.

    Why should any republican be forced to pay taxes? Taxes are for democrats and socialists.