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".

Who cares...

NASA is a waste of money...

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".

Agreed. Shut it down.

=d>

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...

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...

I think the Space Shuttle Program was sunset many years before Obama.

"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.

BANG

ZOOM

TO-DA MOON

ALICE !

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 😂

Can't you find someone in the middle class to steal from to keep the shuttles flying?

Less than half now!

The Russians caught on to this capitalist law-of-supply-and-demand thing pretty well...

Russians and the shuttle side, hyper-inflation is in our future.

The space station is a giant waste of money,,,

give to Russia...

Frog leg-eating outrage.

what middle class..