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| (...) Shuttle = great idea in 1972, ridiculous albatross in 2004. You're undoubtedly right about the $4.3B being spent before a single SRB is lit. What really bugs me is the systematic way they're trying to kill all manned spaceflight by unfunding (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) It's not over yet. Look at House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's comments in these articles: (2 URLs) He's quoted as calling the proposed NASA budget cuts as "unacceptable" and followed that by saying, "It would be very hard to get this bill to (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) Not to disparage the results of his studies, but that has got to be the funniest thing I've heard in months. On the surface, I can see that it's a valid source of robotics research, but if I think about it too hard I keep coming up with images (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| (...) 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 (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) That sucks. That was a great way to potentially generate billions of dollars in NASA R&D without having to spend tax dollars to pay for it all. It also allows a greater variety of ideas to be explored, since noone has to justify experimenting (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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