Good job, NASA. No wonder this country is going down a freakin' hole....
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UPDATED: Friday, September 6, 2024 00:05
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There was a tower gap that needed to be closed.
Mission accomplished!
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Quote:“The International Space Station was sold as an $8 billion program. It ended up costing $100 billion. The Webb telescope was sold as a $1 billion program. It’s now up to $8 billion,” said Lori Garver, who served as the number two official at NASA from 2009 until last year. “It usually works out for them,” she said, meaning the contractors get paid, even when they raise the price. -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/12/15/nasas-349-million
Originally posted by AURaptor:
There was a tower gap that needed to be closed.
Mission accomplished!
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Back in 2005, the Army planned to have Raytheon build 32 blimps at a cost of about $180 million each. But growing doubts and hemorrhaging costs, along with the destruction of one blimp in a collision, led the Pentagon to hit the brakes in 2012. There would be no more new blimps, just testing for the prototypes that had already been constructed.
That brings the price tag for the two remaining blimps to around $1.4 billion each, if development costs are counted. (Technically, there’s another duo mothballed in storage in the Utah desert, but there are no current plans to use them.) That’s serious money, even by federal government standards.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/17/billion-dollar-surveilla
nce-blimp-launch-maryland/
Dec 14, 2014 Time-lapse of the inflation of a billion dollar blimp at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
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Blame congress. The tower became a jobs project for the local politicianz.
Herez wuz up for 2015 http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/FY15_Summary_Brief.pdf
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If I were King uv America, NASA woud be wut its all about. I'd multiply their bujet by 10.
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Originally posted by JO753:
If I were King uv America, NASA woud be wut its all about. I'd multiply their bujet by 10.
King Obama cannot do that, it would be a good investment in America, which he does not allow.
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Good investment in America???
This is the only system we will ever be in. I firmly believe we will eradicate ourselves before we ever leave it. So we would only be pouring money into going to planets that we cannot really live on. Sure it would be trendy, but like the moon, no one will go back once we've been there.
I'm all for telescopes, but spending billions on things that don't seek to serve THIS planet in the long term are just a waste. Believe me, no one wants space travel more than I do, but I think people should take the sparkle-y Star Trek glasses off and be realistic.
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Quote:6/28/2015
Originally posted by Wishimay:
I think people should take the sparkle-y Star Trek glasses off and be realistic.
With SpaceX Rocket Explosion, NASA's Now Had Three Cargo Failures From Three Providers
www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2015/06/28/with-spacex-rocket-failure-n
asas-now-had-three-cargo-failures-from-three-providers/
Despite commercial failures, NASA will not be getting a refund from any company because that is the way the contracts were written. NASA and the US Government take all the financial risk. You know, got to look after the welfare of SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk. He was so disappointed when his rocket exploded on his birthday, ruining his party. It would have been twice as tragic if he also had to pay for the rocket failure.
Elon Musk is as close to being Tony Stark of The Avengers as it gets. But it's not even close.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Yeah, we're getting pretty good at the failure part...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3144873/U-S-air-force-s-sophis
ticated-stealth-jet-beaten-dogfight-plane-1970s-despite-expensive-weapon-history.html
350 Billion plane, coming to a used parts lot near you...
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