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NASA'S Orion Arrives At Kennedy, Work Underway For First Launch
An anonymous reader writes in with news about the arrival of the Orion spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center today. "More than 450 guests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida welcomed the arrival of the agency’s first space-bound Orion spacecraft Monday, marking a major milestone in the construction of the vehicle that will carry astronauts farther into space than ever before. 'Orion’s arrival at Kennedy is an important step in meeting the president’s goal to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and to Mars in the 2030s,' NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said. 'As NASA acquires services for delivery of cargo and crew to the International Space Station and other low-Earth destinations from private companies, NASA can concentrate its efforts on building America’s next generation space exploration system to reach destinations for discovery in deep space. Delivery of the first space-bound Orion, coupled with recent successes in commercial spaceflight, is proof this national strategy is working.'"
To hell with the millons of americans with no jobs, kids who go to school hungry, the millions who cant afford going to the doctor or dentist, the bad economy, the incredibly huge national debt, our oil dependancy problems, pollution and all of that other shit! SPACE MISSIONS BABY! Yeah thats where we should be spending insane amounts of money and utilizing all of that brain power and putting all those resources at!
Screw the shitty shape were all in because there is a chance we MIGHT discover something that could actually be useful in 50 or 60 years from now! Screw everybody because we need to prove the size of our dicks to the rest of the world by shooting a giant dick shaped object further into space than anyother dick has gone!
Ugh, what a waste.