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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
All those new initiatives were a neat idea, but as you can see Shuttle has eaten
them alive. Congress voted $4.3 billion for a shuttle that won’t fly before that
money is all gone. It has always done this because our lawmakers are addicted to
voting money for their home states, and Shuttle has been pork since Nixon. New
initiatives are a risk, because they threaten some of the largest Shuttle
handouts. No matter how irrational Shuttle might be.
The bill is also supposed to pay for the completion of our obligations to the
ISS. This too is a boondoggle.
Arguing about what this means - somebody has it in for manned spaceflight for
instance - involves a fatal assumption. That is that NASA offers any hope of
furthering that goal. If you think the answer is no, as I have been convinced,
then shutting down NASA’s manned flight operations and privatizing its assets
would a good thing for space. Some of the hearings under way are leading to
cracking it apart, but I’m not holding my breath.
None of this is meant to reflect on NASA’s unmanned exploration directives which
have done so much on less money.
The Russians are making jokes about NASA going out of business on $20 billion a
year.
-Erik
http://appropriations.house.gov/
Subcommittee on Veterans etc. made this vote
If one of your congresscritters is on this subcommittee, write them a letter.
Bite the hand that feeds your neighborhood a $7.3 million NASA supercomputer
facility. (ranking member Mollohan, Fairmont WV.)
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