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After Spending $450 Million, NASA Scraps Moon Rover
The Epoch Times ^ | JULY 18, 2024 | Bill Pan

Posted on 07/18/2024 6:33:53 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 07/18/2024 6:33:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; mowowie; SuperLuminal; Cottonbay

Gotta save that dough for Ukraine......................


2 posted on 07/18/2024 6:34:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I heard Putin’s Offensive is finished , not much about Ukraine in the news


3 posted on 07/18/2024 6:36:43 AM PDT by butlerweave
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4 posted on 07/18/2024 6:37:18 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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Well, they just spent $320 million on a floating pier in Gaza that didn’t last a week, never transferred any aid to Palestinians, and is now dismantled

So there’s closing in on a $ billion of waste on just 2 projects


5 posted on 07/18/2024 6:39:21 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: silverleaf

How many homeless veterans could that have housed?...................


6 posted on 07/18/2024 6:41:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Cue the Harry Mancini tune, “Moon Rover...”


7 posted on 07/18/2024 6:41:58 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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How long before they cancel Artemis?


8 posted on 07/18/2024 6:42:55 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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To: Red Badger; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; ..
By constrast, the Falcon 9 cost $400 million to develop. It had an upper stage failure the other day, first F9-related failure since 2015, and the FAA suspended all F9 flights. Meanwhile, the FAA doesn't seem to have any problem with ULA/Boeing's simmering overdue overpriced Starliner failureS. I wonder why?

9 posted on 07/18/2024 6:44:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Tom Tetroxide

How long before they cancel Artemis?

A few billion dollars to go on that one ,LOL


10 posted on 07/18/2024 6:47:10 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Red Badger

“We decided the money would be better spent on trying to get our astronauts off the space station.”


11 posted on 07/18/2024 6:47:25 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Red Badger

NASA is an organization in terminal decline to the point of uselessness. America needs to disband NASA, fire every one of its employees and then create a new agency and hire people from industry who have never worked for the government.


12 posted on 07/18/2024 6:50:33 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: butlerweave

The Ukraine is dead. Long live Rump Ukraine!


13 posted on 07/18/2024 6:51:11 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Red Badger

The ice under the Lunar poles makes it perhaps the most important real estate in the Solar System. It not only has obvious benefits for anyone stationed there but it could provide fuel for getting into the rest of the Solar System . Having to bring everything up from Earth is too costly to continue. You might say it is the ultimate gas station.


14 posted on 07/18/2024 6:53:25 AM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: Red Badger

You got to not spend money to save money. How about the 450 million blown out the nations backside?? Ice on the moon. I thought it had no atmosphere?


15 posted on 07/18/2024 6:56:10 AM PDT by Mouton (A 150MT hit may not solve our problems now but is a good start. )
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To: Nateman

Add to that the new cave-like lava tube they just found...............


16 posted on 07/18/2024 6:57:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Mouton

Ice in the shadows that never receive any sunlight..............


17 posted on 07/18/2024 6:57:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Can’t fire the incompetents, so they scrap the program to get rid of people.


18 posted on 07/18/2024 7:01:32 AM PDT by Bayard
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The stopped missions and became a climate activism hub.

NASA sucks.


19 posted on 07/18/2024 7:02:37 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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In terms of costs, NASA said it has so far spent about $450 million on the program. Discontinuing VIPER is expected to save the agency at least $84 million in development and additional operational costs.

NASA officials split the saved funds among themselves


20 posted on 07/18/2024 7:04:28 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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