Nasa ends plan to put man back on Moon

[Sabre]

Article

Nasa has begun to wind down construction of the rockets and spacecraft that were to have taken astronauts back to the Moon — effectively dismantling the US human spaceflight programme despite a congressional ban on its doing so.

Legislators have accused President Obama’s Administration of contriving to slip the termination of the Constellation programme through the back door to avoid a battle on Capitol Hill.

Constellation aimed to build upon what was arguably America’s greatest technological achievement, the first lunar landing of 1969, by launching new expeditions to the Moon and to Mars and worlds beyond. Mr Obama proposed in February that it should be scrapped because it was “over budget, behind schedule and lacking in innovation”, but he has met opposition in Congress, which has yet to approve his plan.The head of Nasa, Major-General Charlie Bolden — an Obama appointee — has now written to aerospace contractors telling them to cut back immediately on Constellation-related projects costing almost $1 billion (£690 million), to comply with regulations requiring them to budget for possible contract termination costs.

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-scheherazade

[complacent]

this. times a lot.

we've learned soooooooo much from nasa.

[Mr Kleen]

we can't afford guns AND spaceships.

[scheherazade]

we can't afford guns AND spaceships.

I bet if they found a way to effectively put guns on space ships, the money would turn up.

(iirc SALT [or one if its' cousins] limits space weapons.)

-scheherazade

[schvin]

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[Cereb Daithi]

Change

[scheherazade]

Change

You don't get to be president if you don't polish the right penises.



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[Sabre]

[Mr Kleen]

Those stickers would be funnier if they were true.

[sirwilliam]

I have all of a sudden seen an outbreak of "Impeach Obama" bumper stickers on cars...they look like the campaign ones, too.

[scheherazade]

You can tell when someone is actually being reasonable (at least within the forces of government), when both sides are unsatisfied.
Right things he's a soclialist
Left things he concedes too much

What actually changed?
Health care bill (which will probably be changed next presidency anyways), that health insurance was backing (which means it can't actually be that great for 'joe whoever'... Requiring health insurance, while fine by me, makes me worry that premiums will be driven up, as the 'no coverage' competitor is out of the game.)
War is same as ever
Gitmo still open
What else did he campaign on? I really don't remember...

I personally have the 'business as usual' impression.
Not that I expected much.
No one is gonna cut off their benefactors.

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[scheherazade]

[OT]
Stuck this in here because of my previous post.
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0621/survey ... rocketing/

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[Sabre]

^^^ Ouch, that's not good to hear

[complacent]

[OT]
Stuck this in here because of my previous post.
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0621/survey ... rocketing/

-scheherazade

wow, that's ed.