Re: I must have missed this class...

Joe LaVigne <jlavigne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:22:25 -0400, Briarroot wrote:
>
> > The US Space Program is possibly the *best* use of taxpayer funding ever
> > known. It has resulted in not only a fountain of technological
> > breakthroughs, but as a catalyst for further development in nearly every
> > field of scientific endeavor whose ever widening effects are still
> > spreading throughout the world. If anything, NASA is *under* funded!
>
> Preach it, brother. 100% agreement here...

Speaking as someone who's gunna be jobless in a month because NASA has
been forced to dramatically cut funding for science missions (including
my own), I have a couple ideas about NASA's funding needs, too. ;-)

The president's funding realignment toward manned exploration is great,
but it's being done at the expense of amost every other prgrogram. The
number of missions that are withering on the vine because of the lack of
funding available for new science and technology is staggering.

Underfunded? Hell, yes!

-Jason
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