Bullsh!t.
Posted on 09/20/2011 12:28:44 PM PDT by NonZeroSum
Last Wednesday, in the Senate office building where it was designed, NASA announced the latest impending programmatic disaster in the name of “space exploration.” For those interested, there is a detailed description of the technical and political issues over at the NASA Spaceflight web site.
Many had thought (and many, though unfortunately not as many, had hoped) that the heavy-lift Ares V rocket had died last year with the cancellation of Constellation, the flawed Mike Griffin plan to implement George Bush’s Vision for Space Exploration. But the howls from the space-pork trough were loud, and last year, Congress passed a NASA authorization that required it to build something resembling Ares. But the authorization did not include sufficient funds to build it, and Congress forced the agency to continue wasting funds on Constellation until this past spring, continuing the ongoing sabotage of our prospects in space.
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Luddites.
Bullsh!t.
It is a giant playpen for eggheads who would otherwise be living in their parents' basements.
I don’t think Defense, or SS qualify as “earmarks” in any covnentional sense of the word.
I wish welfare had half of NASAs budget......instead of hundreds of times more.
I am kind of curious about what “Other Agencies” are. They had a budget of almost $150 billion in 08.
Hmmmm, I think but for those eggheads, you'd be typing on a Rand mechanical typewriter instead of a computer right now....
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