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Originally Posted by jmaryt
no body cares!..spend the money on cancer research!..let the "russians"
blow their wad now!
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Nobody cares?? I care.
I've been part of the shuttle team since the return to flight mission STS 114 in 2005, and worked with NASA since 1994. It's a shame that the shuttle is going away before we have a replacement. America has been the leader in space for 40 + years and now we're just going to give our domincance in space away.
NASA's annual budget is less than 1% of the total federal budget and has been since the early 90's when it was just over 1%. Even in the Apollo days it never got over 5%. People always think that NASA cost the american people so much money when it really doesn't.
NASA boosts the economy in every state of the union:
I could go on and on but I think that's enough thread jacking.
