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#1 Cpt_Micha May 25, 2010 8:10:38	www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37303712/ns/technol...
#2 death_isthe_begining May 25, 2010 9:15:25	These people are spying on a spy plane.
#3 zombie_babies May 25, 2010 9:28:50	Cool.  Maybe we can strap an astronaut to it so we can actually get one of our own guys to the space station we built without having to beg for a ride.  ;)
#4 Cpt_Micha May 25, 2010 9:49:30	Well we and Japan built it really.
#5 zombie_babies May 25, 2010 10:14:15	That's fine.  It's just that now we need to beg Russia to give us a lift.  I think we even pitch in for gas money and munchies.  Stooooooooooooopiiiiiiiiiiiiiid.
#6 Cpt_Micha May 25, 2010 20:15:03	yeah and I really don't trust the Russian Space Program. Their record isn't exactly stellar. (Get it? ah ahahahah oh ahahaha come on it's so bad it's funny and you know it!) But it's not like we presently have any real alternatives.
#7 Ragnar_Lodbrok May 25, 2010 21:11:18	So we're finally going to phase out the shuttles, then?
#8 Cpt_Micha May 26, 2010 8:04:56	I would assume eventually we are when Nasa actually gets funding again. I wouldn't count on that happening though the High Frontier Dream is pretty much dead to the government. At this point the most promising advances in space travel in America are all happening in the Private Sector. Which is unsettling for other reasons. I would expect the shuttle's true replacement to come from the Private Sector in all honesty.
#9 zombie_babies May 26, 2010 9:06:36	yeah and I really don't trust the Russian Space Program. Their record isn't exactly stellar. (Get it? ah ahahahah oh ahahaha come on it's so bad it's funny and you know it!) But it's not like we presently have any real alternatives.  Tee hee.  So we're finally going to phase out the shuttles, then? Umm ... Obama said the shuttles are done.  Well, they were going to be done anyway, but he took it a step further.  We had a replacement program in the works that would have used rockets.  He killed that.  He wants NASA to focus on travel to Mars or an asteroid instead of creating a new near orbit vehicle.  It's his way of saving money (after he spent so, so much), you see.  He also basically put all of the onus on creating a new space vehicle on the public sector.  Yep.  Private industry is supposed to come up with an alternative means of space travel.  You know, with all that funding they get like NASA used to ... whoops!  In the meantime, we are to use Russian space vehicles to get us to and from the space station we put all that money into.  And, you know, we aren't always the bestest of buddies with the Ruskies - even after the Curtain fell.  So it's an irritating situation that lots of people are unsatisfied with.  But it's what we gots.
#10 Cpt_Micha May 26, 2010 9:58:00	I think the private sector does need to start ponying up the cash and doing it themselves. That being said I don't think anyone takes space seriously enough.  To our worthless government it's just a cash sink. Despite the innumerable advances in almost every field that have come directly from our space program. Shame we don't really have one anymore.
#11 zombie_babies May 26, 2010 10:01:21	Yup.  The private sector should look into this, too, but the gov't needs to be involved as well.  With the type of advances that can come from working on something right at the edge of the highest technology, I don't think all of that needs to be unclassified, you know?  Oh well, maybe one day NASA will be important again.
#12 pluisjen May 27, 2010 6:13:23	The Private Industry prefers easy money over improvement, unless said improvement quickly leads to easy money.  It's why we still use fossil fuels.
#13 toastedamphibian May 27, 2010 21:33:13	The Private Industry prefers easy money over improvement, unless said improvement quickly leads to easy money.  It's why we still use fossil fuels.  Yeah, thats kind of where the private sectort gets it's funding from, jah?