Posted on 01/13/2011 4:37:02 PM PST by decimon
WASHINGTON (AFP) NASA this week told Congress it cannot afford to build a new heavy-lift rocket and spacecraft to replace the retiring space shuttle program within the timeframe and budget approved by lawmakers.
The plan to make a first launch of a new rocket and space capsule to carry astronauts by 2016 "does not appear to be possible" within the projected budget, NASA said in a report to legislators.
Four members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation shot back that the plan is not optional and that the US space agency must find a way.
"The production of a heavy-lift rocket and capsule is not optional. It's the law," said a joint statement issued late Wednesday by Senators John Rockefeller, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Bill Nelson and David Vitter.
"NASA must use its decades of space know-how and billions of dollars in previous investments to come up with a concept that works. We believe it can be done affordably and efficiently -- and, it must be a priority."
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What a bunch of idiots making technical decisions without having the required brain.
This requires the old adage: “Fast, Good, or Cheap: You can pick two”
Time for Space-X and similar private industries to get us off-planet. The government, especially the Caliphate, has ballsed-up the space effort beyond repair. Time for capitalists to reboot it.
here I thought that I had come up with that addage...or a variation on it anyways - when nasa was doing their faster better cheaper nonsense in the 90s...
Have the Muslim space experts lend a hand...
NASA turned into a panzi fell good program
Time for the Republicans to defund NASA completely......tear them to pieces and throw them to the wind.
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