Posted on 09/08/2009 5:09:50 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
WASHINGTON A White House panel of independent space experts says NASA's return-to-the-moon plan just won't fly.
The problem is money. The expert panel estimates it would cost about $3 billion a year beyond NASA's current $18 billion annual budget.
"Under the budget that was proposed, exploration beyond Earth is not viable," panel member Edward Crawley, a professor of aeronautics at MIT, told The Associated Press Tuesday.
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He just dumped two trillion down the toilet. Can’t squeeze out a couple billion for something real.
We need to go over to ACORN and beat that $5 billion out of them.
They need more jet planes for Pelosi.
Wait - if it costs too much, why don’t we just spend a couple trillion on it to bring choice and competition by eliminating choice and competition?
... sorry... couldn’t help it.
3 Billion a year for NASA vs. 3 Billion in 3 weeks for cash for clunkers.
Between what he gave to ACORN and his multi vacations, that would have covered it...
Guess he isn't JFK after all.
Nah no vision.
No Kidding! I always figured it would be a Jimmuh Carter repeat, but it looks like it will be worse by a factor of 10s.........
Whitey on the Moon
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Her face and arms began to swell.
(and Whitey’s on the moon)
I can’t pay no doctor bill.
(but Whitey’s on the moon)
Ten years from now I’ll be payin’ still.
(while Whitey’s on the moon)
The man jus’ upped my rent las’ night.
(’cause Whitey’s on the moon)
No hot water, no toilets, no lights.
(but Whitey’s on the moon)
I wonder why he’s uppi’ me?
(’cause Whitey’s on the moon?)
I wuz already payin’ ‘im fifty a week.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Taxes takin’ my whole damn check,
Junkies makin’ me a nervous wreck,
The price of food is goin’ up,
An’ as if all that shit wuzn’t enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Her face an’ arm began to swell.
(but Whitey’s on the moon)
Was all that money I made las’ year
(for Whitey on the moon?)
How come there ain’t no money here?
(Hmm! Whitey’s on the moon)
Y’know I jus’ ‘bout had my fill
(of Whitey on the moon)
I think I’ll sen’ these doctor bills,
Airmail special
(to Whitey on the moon)
Beware the moon mission....
Another baby to kill. Liberals will never have any sense of understanding anything beyond their “d!ck” headed so called friends’ wishes.
Lets not forget that the democrats tried slipping over $120 billion to ACORN in the first round of the bank bailout fight.
This about putting America in such a deep hole that it will take a century to dig us out if ever.
Let’s face facts. The Moon will be visited by private enterprise, not NASA, if the government *permits* private enterprise to do so. Which they probably will not.
NASA has a problem in that its sole concern is basic research, nothing practical. A private corporation, while amenable to research, does so with practical motives, and more importantly, a strategic vision.
The reason for a private corporation to go to the Moon does not need a manned mission at first. A robot ship will scoop up dust, carry it inside the ship, warm it to release the Helium-3 in it, then dump the “used” dust while concentrating the Helium-3, to return it to Earth.
Once it does so, He3 is so very valuable, that it will pay for the mission, and many more missions, with a substantial profit margin.
Then, if the He3 can be used in a nuclear fusion process, its value will be much greater, and stimulate further Lunar visits.
You’re forgetting the outer space treaty. We arent allowed to make money from anything in space.
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