Posted on 09/26/2009 6:44:46 PM PDT by Flavius
Is this week's revelation that water ice is more prevalent on the moon than scientists expected a "game-changer" for future spaceflight, as some experts think? Actually, the rules of the game for going beyond Earth orbit haven't changed - but the latest findings could bring new attention to options in the old playbooks.
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A musical tribute to two great men of science. Carl Sagan and his cosmologist companion Stephen Hawking present: A Glorious Dawn - Cosmos remixed. Almost all samples and footage taken from Carl Sa...
Let’s hope Obozo will restore funding to NASA’s human spaceflight plans.
The nations that lead on the frontiers, dictate the course of human history.
China would very much like that honor.
Before the end of Bammys tenure, NASA will have been completely de-funded. The iss will be steered into a mid-Pacific crash and maybe weather sats will survive, launched by the folks over in China or India.
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