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| bob haller safety advocate... |
 Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:02 pm |
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Do you think the program will be extended? There are 5 remaining
flights. Would they refuse to fly some if a safety stand down occured?
Just wondering what people here think will occur |
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| Neil Fraser... |
| Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:34 pm |
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On Nov 17, 2:02 pm, bob haller safety advocate <hall... at (no spam) aol.com>
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[quote]Do you think the program will be extended? There are 5 remaining
flights. Would they refuse to fly some if a safety stand down occured?
Just wondering what people here think will occur
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This should become clearer over the next month. At the moment there's
wildly conflicting information about NASA's immediate future. One
side says 10% budget cuts:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/os-atlantis-shuttle-launch-20091116,0,4658928.story
The other side says 20% budget hikes:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6706161.html
So that means that we'll either have no manned flight for a decade, or
we'll be going to the moon. I think the best prediction right now is:
"Reply hazy, try again." |
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| slider... |
| Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:06 am |
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"Neil Fraser" <neil.fraser at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in message
news:a9f719a6-8c48-4211-b625-da75217ec14c at (no spam) x6g2000prc.googlegroups.com...
On Nov 17, 2:02 pm, bob haller safety advocate <hall... at (no spam) aol.com>
wrote:
[quote]Do you think the program will be extended? There are 5 remaining
flights. Would they refuse to fly some if a safety stand down occured?
Just wondering what people here think will occur
[/quote]
This should become clearer over the next month. At the moment there's
wildly conflicting information about NASA's immediate future. One
side says 10% budget cuts:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/os-atlantis-shuttle-launch-20091116,0,4658928.story
The other side says 20% budget hikes:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6706161.html
So that means that we'll either have no manned flight for a decade, or
we'll be going to the moon. I think the best prediction right now is:
"Reply hazy, try again."
Just pull the whole space budget, waste of money in the eyes of the
majority. |
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| Neil Fraser... |
| Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:14 pm |
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On Nov 18, 7:06 am, "slider" <sli... at (no spam) slide.com> wrote:
[quote]Just pull the whole space budget, waste of money in the eyes of the
majority.
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In the eyes of the majority of Americans, cosmetic surgery (~$30b/
year) is twice as important as space exploration (~$15b/year). |
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