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Entire South Korean Space Programme Shuts Down As Sole Astronaut Quits

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-this-job-and-launch-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes The entire South Korean space program has been forced to shut down after its only astronaut resigned for personal reasons. Yi So-yeon, 36, became the first Korean in space in 2008 after the engineer was chosen by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) to lead the country's $25m space project. Her resignation begs questions of KARI regarding whether she was the right person to lead the program and whether the huge cost of sending her into space was a waste of taxpayer's money.

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  1. Re:begs FFS by Charliemopps · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's not evolution it's erosion, we are losing the original meaning and gaining nothing.

    If that were true we're still be speaking Sumerian.

  2. Re:begs FFS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I could care less ;)

  3. Re:begs FFS by DoomSprinkles · · Score: 4, Funny

    For all intensive purposes...

  4. Sounds like a joke by rossdee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sth Koreas space program shut down because the Seoul astronaut resigned

  5. Re:Not the entire space program... by penguinoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...just the manned part.

    Well, the womanned part.

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