Posted on 02/06/2006 5:26:48 PM PST by KevinDavis
The Planetary Society Cites Cancelled Plans for a Europa and Other Science Missions
Pasadena, CA, — The NASA Budget released today shortchanges space science in order to fund 17 projected space shuttle flights. Despite recent spectacular results from NASA's science programs, this budget puts the brakes on their growth within the agency. It seriously damages the hugely productive and successful robotic exploration of our solar system and beyond.
According to this budget, flight projects that were already underway, such as the Space Interferometry Mission, will be delayed. Others, such as the Terrestrial Planet Finder and a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, will be deferred indefinitely. Furthermore, the new budget slashes funding for the fundamental space science that makes such missions possible and turns raw data into discoveries.
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Hasn't enough space science been done for a while? It's going to take a couple centuries just to go through the data. Get to the moon and then see about doing some more science on the moon. Same for Mars: get there sometime, then let science play around for a while. And, dump the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty so people can actually develop outer space resources.
Why don't they just learn to live with it, or otherwise go off themselves? It was cofounded by a rabid Dhimmicrat, and as an organization it remains a partisan shill.
I use to be a member of the Planetary Society... Did not like it.
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