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Let the Private Sector Do Space Exploration
The DC Writeup ^
| 7/20/09
| Dennis Shiraev
Posted on 07/20/2009 12:09:51 PM PDT by The D.C. Writeup
Today is the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and many are taking the occasion to speculate about the future of American space exploration. With the Space Shuttle program set to go out of service in about one year, the United States will soon be incapable of putting astronauts into orbit. Will the government revive the space program, or is space destined to be a dimming and increasingly irrelevant frontier for human exploration?
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa; privatespace
To: The D.C. Writeup
We don’t have a private sector anymore.
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posted on
07/20/2009 12:11:14 PM PDT
by
Codeflier
(We just had 8 more years of a democrat president in office, we already know what happens!)
To: The D.C. Writeup
You should have watched
Living On The Moon on the National Geographic channel last night. it would have answered all of your questions.
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posted on
07/20/2009 12:18:18 PM PDT
by
BubbaBasher
("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
To: The D.C. Writeup
Agreed and let the military do their thing in space too.
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posted on
07/20/2009 12:25:49 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
07/20/2009 12:26:01 PM PDT
by
GeronL
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To: The D.C. Writeup
is space destined to be a dimming and increasingly irrelevant frontier for human exploration?Destined? What about the thirty year space shuttle program?
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posted on
07/20/2009 1:20:55 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
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posted on
07/20/2009 5:41:01 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Can't Stop the Signal!)
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