William Elliot wrote:

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, James Oberg wrote:


"When Gay Meant Happy" wrote

Should the Pluto flyby mission visit this mysterious object? What do
you guys think. Is it even possible?

Sedna is about opposite Pluto in the sky right now, so no,
it can't happen on the Pluto mission.


Wasn't the Pluto mission scuddled with Hubble because of Buchwacky's new
spaced out plan to shift NASA funding from science to (military)
occupation of space?


Nope. It was the usual internal NASA fight over limited science
dollars. ISS would be a better target for blame.

What about Deep Impact, haven't heard that it was scuddled.

NEAR however was damaged by Bush's assult upon NASA,
it's scientific payload lessened and the length of mission
curtailed to shift money from it to Bush's spacey plan.


? Umm. Wrong president, I think.

Not mentioned in Bushwacky's spaced speach was the emphasis upon
nuclear power, reactors lauched from Earth for space missions.


Hmm. I am pretty sure he did mention nukes. And, there is a certain
amount of technical rationale for it.

Yes, nuclear power companies are also on Bush's list of goodie guys.

Which doesn't lessen the actual technical rationale for developing
nukes. NASA and a lot of pro-space groups have been begging for it
for years.