Science Earth to Mars in 39 Days, ion engines
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 Jul 29 2009, 11:53 AM
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US got NO extra money to do space research
they pull out a lot of budget before .... this publisity is to spur the public to change Obama policy ... NASA got no extra funding .... a lot of research has been abandoned ... |
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Jul 29 2009, 01:32 PM
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QUOTE(obefiend @ Jul 29 2009, 01:19 PM) its a sign of times. the space golden age was in the 50-60's where the tech was also used to build ICBMs. when the threat of ICBM from Russia is no longer there i can see why they face budget cuts but China is building their OWN spacestation ..... unless ... United Nations cannot support the Space Station (which is a laughter, they cannot take it) ... maybe they'll either rent it out ... or sell it ...the shuttle for example was suppose to be used only for 25 years. as it stands the shuttle programme is long overdue for a new shuttle design. with the collapse of the world economy i think the future of space exploration will be gloomy. by 2015 the ISS will deorbit YES! they will let he ISS tumble back to earth. Neither NASA,ESA nor Russian space administrator see any reason to keep it afloat. The only people interested in space programme is CHINA. so better hope china will do something!  dun worry about that le ....... UN will always have the IMF to borrow money from ..... and NASA may have reduced most of their funded researches ... but not the private funded ones ..... plus .... they just not doing anything special ... but to revert to the status: IDLE (or relaxing holiday) but now they US itself is holding their own states together (takut pecah like USSR) .... the threat of their states going independent is very real .... checkout California's local politics since US is actually not a FAIR country .... some states are producing more, some are less .. they argue a lot of the GDP per state .... plus their country is far too large ...... their state ppl love their state more than their country ... (e.g. even their own state police hates FBI) i believe ... we might see the US to split in our lifetime ... or US might change its own policies and become kuku besi to their own country to keep their states together (which even worst - Militarism) |
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