Jeff Findley wrote:
"Rick Nelson" wrote in message
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What a load of BS -
let me think back... Wasn't it a mainly Repbulican congress that
defunded NASA in favor of the military after Apollo?

The reduction of NASA's budget started before the first moon landing, and as
Rusty points out, you're wrong about the Republicans controlling congress
during that time period.

Gee - go figure
how we're racing down the same hole now..

Not exactly. NASA's budget is essentially steady these days. It's just
that NASA has never gotten used to this lower level of funding. This is
compared to the "glory days" of Apollo R&D when they could essentially waste
anything but time. NASA keeps hoping that their funding will increse by
leaps and bounds, but I doubt it ever will.




Acording to Space.com the U.S. Space Shuttle program cost has been:

"The data show that over the entire lifetime of the the space shuttle
program the cost has been $145 billion, and about $112 billion since
the program became operational."

"Furthermore, the average cost per flight has been about $1.3 billion
over the life of the program and about $750 million over its most
recent five years of operations."

http://www.space.com/news/shuttle_cost_050211.html

$ 33-billion dollars was spent building and developing the Shuttle. If
people believe that wasn't enought money, then how much would have been
enough?
$ 50-billion? $ 75-billon? $ 100-billion?


Rusty