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HockeyDad Offline
#1 Posted: Mon, Mar 14 2011, 6:58 PM EST
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With the Space Shuttle program shutting down, Russia just raised the price for a trip to the international space station for a US astronaut from $53 million to $64 million.


Pwned.
rfenst Offline
#2 Posted: Mon, Mar 14 2011, 7:54 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
With the Space Shuttle program shutting down, Russia just raised the price for a trip to the international space station for a US astronaut from $53 million to $64 million.


Pwned.



Now I am curious. Do you know how much it has been costing us per astronaut? $64 million still could be a "bargain".
wheelrite Offline
#3 Posted: Mon, Mar 14 2011, 8:04 PM EST
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Who cares...

NASA is a waste of money...
DrMaddVibe Offline
#4 Posted: Tue, Mar 15 2011, 6:34 AM EST
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Space is the ONLY thing that makes sense!

We've lead the way only to throw it in the toilet because we have a Kenyan King that's a total dumbass!

The payoff that the entire world has received because of our space exploration is monumental!

Hitching a ride to a space station we devised is just a travesty. I'm waiting for them to just come out and say "No".
Stinkdyr Offline
#5 Posted: Tue, Mar 15 2011, 6:44 AM EST
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wheelrite wrote:
Who cares...

NASA is a waste of money...




Agreed. Shut it down.

Applause
wheelrite Offline
#6 Posted: Tue, Mar 15 2011, 6:49 AM EST
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Other than Military applications the Space industry should be left to the private sector..
As well all know the private sector will do better and cheaper...
wheelrite Offline
#7 Posted: Tue, Mar 15 2011, 6:50 AM EST
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Other than Military applications the Space industry should be left to the private sector..
As well all know the private sector will do better and cheaper...
rfenst Offline
#8 Posted: Tue, Mar 15 2011, 8:45 AM EST
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DrMaddVibe wrote:
Space is the ONLY thing that makes sense!

We've lead the way only to throw it in the toilet because we have a Kenyan King that's a total dumbass!

The payoff that the entire world has received because of our space exploration is monumental!

Hitching a ride to a space station we devised is just a travesty. I'm waiting for them to just come out and say "No".


I think the Space Shuttle Program was sunset many years before Obama.
DrMaddVibe Offline
#9 Posted: Tue, Mar 15 2011, 10:03 AM EST
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http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/bush_vision.html
DrMaddVibe Offline
#10 Posted: Tue, Mar 15 2011, 10:07 AM EST
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"After announcing earlier in the week that it would be cancelling George W. Bush's Constellation space program, which was geared towards manned missions to the Moon and eventually Mars, the Obama administration was met with unusual resistence from notable astronauts including Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon.

One of the most contentious parts of the new program is the scaled-down version of the Ares I and V launch vehicles and the Orion crew capsule -- technology proposed under the Constellation program that would be used to tranport astronauts to low-Earth orbit and the Moon. Without NASA-owned capsules, American astronauts will be forced to use commercial space transportation, a concept abhored by some in the space industry.

Obama pinpointed those concerns in his speech in front of 200 NASA employees, astronauts, and members of Congress. "I recognize that some have said it is unfeasible or unwise to work with the private sector in this way. I disagree." He added that the investment in private companies would spur economic growth. "By buying the services of space transportation -- rather than the vehicles themselves -- we can continue to ensure rigorous safety standards are met. But we will also accelerate the pace of innovations as companies -- from young startups to established leaders -- compete to design and build and launch new means of carrying people and materials out of our atmosphere." "


http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/04/15/4425665-obama-defends-nasa-program


Stop defending the Kenyan King Robert. You'll only resent it and tire quickly.
jackconrad Offline
#11 Posted: Tue, Mar 15 2011, 10:18 AM EST
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BANG

ZOOM

TO-DA MOON

ALICE !
tailgater Offline
#12 Posted: Tue, Mar 15 2011, 12:05 PM EST
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Half of the responses that have belittled the space program probably did so through an iPhone via a satellite.

I'm sure that irony, however, will be lost on most.
missellemarie Offline
#13 Posted: Tue, Mar 15 2011, 12:55 PM EST
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tailgater wrote:
Half of the responses that have belittled the space program probably did so through an iPhone via a satellite.

I'm sure that irony, however, will be lost on most.



lol LOL
drywalldog Offline
#14 Posted: Tue, Mar 15 2011, 2:24 PM EST
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Can't you find someone in the middle class to steal from to keep the shuttles flying?
DrMaddVibe Offline
#15 Posted: Tue, Mar 15 2011, 2:43 PM EST
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Less than half now!
DadZilla3 Offline
#16 Posted: Tue, Mar 15 2011, 4:42 PM EST
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The Russians caught on to this capitalist law-of-supply-and-demand thing pretty well...
pgje51 Offline
#17 Posted: Wed, Mar 16 2011, 9:55 PM EST
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Russians and the shuttle side, hyper-inflation is in our future.
wheelrite Offline
#18 Posted: Wed, Mar 16 2011, 10:18 PM EST
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The space station is a giant waste of money,,,

give to Russia...
jpotts Offline
#19 Posted: Fri, Mar 18 2011, 7:17 PM EST
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Frog leg-eating outrage.
schusler Offline
#20 Posted: Fri, Mar 18 2011, 8:33 PM EST
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drywalldog wrote:
Can't you find someone in the middle class to steal from to keep the shuttles flying?

what middle class..
cacman Offline
#21 Posted: Sat, Mar 19 2011, 2:07 AM EST
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tailgater wrote:
Half of the responses that have belittled the space program probably did so through an iPhone via a satellite.
I'm sure that irony, however, will be lost on most.


You’re right... No Satellites = No Internet and No Phone Service (land & cell).

The Hubble Space Telescope and the Space Station provided much to the US, in both what was made public and to the technologies we are not privileged to.

Can you ever justify the cost of pure research and exploration??? Without exploration Columbus would not have discovered this land, and our forefathers would not have ventured West. Without research Jonas E. Salk would not have discovered the vaccine for Polio, and syphilis would be as common as a cold only deadlier. What's next? Do you want to stop cancer research because it is not "economically viable"?

I offer the following quotes from the movie "Contact" featuring Jodie Foster (1997):
Executive: We must confess that your proposal seems less like science and more like science fiction.
Ellie Arroway: Science fiction. Well you're right, it's crazy. In fact, it's even worse than that, nuts.
[angrily slams down her briefcase and marches up to the desk]
Ellie Arroway: You wanna hear something really nutty? I heard of a couple guys who wanna build something called an "airplane," you know you get people to go in, and fly around like birds, it's ridiculous, right? And what about breaking the sound barrier, or rockets to the moon, or atomic energy, or a mission to Mars? Science fiction, right? Look, all I'm asking, is for you to just have the tiniest bit of vision. You know, to just sit back for one minute and look at the big picture. To take a chance on something that just might end up being the most profoundly impactful moment for humanity, for the history... of history.

[last lines]
Ellie Arroway: [to a group of children] I'll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right?


And the USSR where the first to space... are you sure you want to leave them there as the last one standing on the hill?

Not me. Nor would JFK.
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