[blueglass]

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we lived in a world where our tax dollars were put into space exploration instead of midnight basketball, and acorn-style government programs to help set up child prostitution scemes? We'd still be taxed to death, but we'd have some really cool ships. I for one, call that a win-win.

[Jo Nuvark]

STELLARVATORS?

[muddler]

It would be even more efficient to load the billions of dollars into an unmanned rocket and shoot the moon.

[The Comedian]

We chose this:

And we got this instead:

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Mr. K]

Is MIDNIGHT BASKETBALL still funded?

(silly question, maybe. As Ronald Reagain once brialliantly said: “The closest thing to eternal life is a government program”

[SunkenCiv]

I think the Clementine was sent to the Moon using this technique, or a similar one, to choose its trajectory.

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[KevinDavis]

For other space news go to: http://www.spacetoday.net

[wastedyears]

I’ve read of Lagrangian points before but I can’t remember for the life of me.

[LiberConservative]

“It’s gnarly, you know. We surf, like gravitational tooooooobs.”