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What a schmuck.

I nearly went into Downfall video mode here.

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/2190850...#axzz2PsznG25r

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/21908503/us-wont-be-returning-to-moon-nasa-chief-says#axzz2PsznG25r

NASA needs to get back to the moon and on to Mars, that's your job! Private stuff like SpaceX doing the Orbital stuff is cool, and space tourism with Suborbital first, good, but NASA has a purpose and doing the big stuff is it!

Man up you wuss!

It's not a problem with "manning up", it's a problem of funding.
Congress has *not* funded a manned return to the moon or an even more
ambitious manned mission to Mars. It's the NASA Administrator's job to
execute policy and spend money allocated. Right now, he's telling
everyone what NASA can, and can't, do with the budget they've got.

If you want this to change, I suggest you write your Congressman and
your Senator. It's Congress that decides how much money to allocate to
what project.

Jeff
--
"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer