LADEE To The Moon and Remembering Gordon Fullerton on This Week @NASA
NASA prepares for the launch of the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer or LADEE probe to the moon. Also, a new crew of ISS Astronauts meet the Media, and the Spitzer and WISE Telescopes get ready to help in the search for asteroids. These stories and more on This Week @NASA
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George Lucas
Well, the brits are (slowly) developing Skylon.
And no, making a SSTO IRL isn't easy.
R.I.P. Col. Fullerton. Thinking of the family and friends of another US hero.
no 0.5% to science. in that 0.5% it includes nasa but a lot is not.
For 2013, in billions of dollars, the NASA budget was 17.7 while the total federal budget was 3,685.
17.7/3,685 = 0.0048 = 0.48% (I rounded to 0.5%).
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This is boring and it has some funky music. We should go to the Bohemian Grove next year to see some aliens. Um take Salvador Wanker Rodriguez and my brother. Im scared.
DON'T TREAD ON ME!
NASA gets almost no budget and they still come up with the best gadgets! Even if you double their budget it still will be too small an amount but they'd create even better things so we can start exploring even further.
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only american YES,,,
ussr russia NO NO
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why worry about budget currencys,,,
DONT WORRY ABOUT IT,,,
how about ussr russia have spending too much budget RUBLES currencys
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why worry about budget currency
@Alex Tigre Outdated? Ridiculous? Isn't it working pretty well so far?
I'm not going to argue the design issues with the shuttle, but you need to research your facts. The XB-70 was Mach 3, not 6, and the nukes it was going to carry were tiny compared to an X-15, which could not be strapped on the outside like a B-52 (or WhiteKnight 2 for that matter). The X-15 could barely do a ballistic arc to the edge of space, because, while Mach 6+ fast, it simply didn't have near the fuel to orbit, which is not something you could cure with "modern materials."