The shuttle launch has been called off. Source: CNN I don't agree with the US government spending so much morey on it's space programme when there are way better and urgents things to spend their money on.
Not sure if you know this, but they've got back on NASA's spending a TON the past 10 years. They're not exactly spending a lot of money on it.
They're spending around 500 BILLION over the next 10 years to send a guy to the Moon and Mars. Now tell me that's fucked up. What's also fucked up is that China sent a man to space around a year ago just to boost 'patriotism', when they have much bigger issues to deal with.
You do realize that 500 billion over the next 10 years for the United States budget is peanuts, correct? I don't know why China sent someone up in space. But boosting patriotisms does fit in their morals (and I'm not about to debate them, they have a right to believe what they want ), so I guess you can't fault them too much for that. Space exploration is a highly important science field, and it's getting the money it deserves, IMO. A lot of other scientific fields in the United States (such as cancer research) have similar budgets.
Either way, no matter how "small" that 500 billion dollars is, is that not tax payers money? What a waste, not even able to install window covers correctly. Figures. I'm sure only just a little over 1% of that 500 billion goes to the shuttles equipment and maintenance. Toothpicks and Elmers are all they need.
Yes, I read recently about how it was called off. I was disappointed. Hopefully, they'll reconsider it. And yeah, NASA is spending a shitload, but for good reason.
Well, I'm glad they went to space but we spend too much money on it. We can't really explore any other plantes except the Earth, and the Moon so it's kinda stupid. I don't agree with the whole going to Mars thing. If stupid ass Bush wants to so bad, he can go himself.