home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   sci.space.policy      Discussions about space policy      106,651 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 106,571 of 106,651   
   Snidely to All   
   Re: Mars Sample Return is dead   
   08 May 25 11:00:47   
   
   From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   The Running Man used thar keyboard to writen:   
   > https://spacenews.com/white-house-budget-proposal-would-phase-   
   ut-sls-and-orion-scale-back-iss-operations/   
   >   
   > The infamous program has finally been laid to rest. It was burning   
   > through enormous amounts of money with little to show for it.   
   >   
   > R.I.P. MSR we hardly knew ya!   
      
   Yeah, Elon Musk is going to pick up the samples on his first visit.   
      
   Also being killed is the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an   
   instrument seen as being on a par with the Hubble and James Webb   
   observatories, already fully assembled, and on budget.   
      
   Earth science programs are cut by more than 50 per cent, and NOAA is   
   also being gutted (including the staffing needed hurricane tracking).   
      
      
   /dps   
      
   --   
    Maybe C282Y is simply one of the hangers-on, a groupie following a   
   future guitar god of the human genome: an allele with undiscovered   
   virtuosity, currently soloing in obscurity in Mom's garage.   
     Bradley Wertheim,  theAtlantic.com, Jan 10 2013   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca