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The problem with Hubble and the JWST is that Hubble will almost certainly go down before JWST is up leaving a gap of probably about 4 years.
And they have yet to figure out how to stop any bits of Hubble that don't burn up on re-entry landing on someone's head.
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NASA's Spirit rover communicated with Earth in a signal detected by NASA's Deep Space Network antenna complex near Madrid, Spain, at 12:34 Universal Time (4:34 a.m. PST) this morning.
The transmissions came during a communication window about 90 minutes after Spirit woke up for the morning on Mars. The signal lasted for 10 minutes at a data rate of 10 bits per second.
Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., plan to send commands to Spirit seeking additional data from the spacecraft during the subsequent few hours.
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Nov 2001
time: 00:33
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Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Yeah, cuz the Democrats have sure spent so much money on the poor.  When has the United States ever had any kind of social democratic pretentions? The only time the U.S. came close, the so-called War on Poverty, it got derailed, not by the space program, but the WAR ON VIETNAM!
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I think we were moving towards Socialism in early 20th century until Bolshevik revolution scared people away.
FDR is the closest thing we've ever had to a socialist democrat.
Certainly Democrats today, at least the moderate Clinton Democrats, pay too much lip service to social programs, but at least they show more concern than Republicans.
Democrats are the lesser of two evils. I think it is more worthwhile to work on them to become more liberal than to throw my lot in with a weak also-ran organization like Libertarians or Communists who have no chance of getting their agenda pushed through in American politics.
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You always act like it's this either or propoistion. Either we explore space or we feed the poor. NASA gets a pittance. Half the Federal budget is taken up paying for past and future wars (some of which goes to NASA). Then there's all the money spent on corporate welfare. If you kvetched abuot the moeny we spend on everything else, maybe you'd at least be logically consistent when it comes to NASA's budget. As it is, you only trot out this argument for NASA. |
Well you've done a good job right there explaining about the money we've wasted on everything else, so now I have nothing to add. 
I guess I'm fixated on NASA because I see a stark contrast between astronauts walking on Mars and many of the social problems we face. I just dont see why Bush needs 15 billion for NASA to have us walk on Mars. Someone please show me the cost-benefit analysis.
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My Wife Hates CIV
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they got about 30 minutes of transmission with the rover today. I bet the other lander suffers the same problem this guy is going through. |
well maybe this time NASA will get that rover going before it falls apart. two weeks to turn and roll off the landing pad???
Can't wait! I'm sure flat plains with small rocks everywhere might look different on the other side. I'm sure that other $400 million digital camera will tell the story.
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Some alien propably pissed on it and shortcircuited it.
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I hope you never find yourself in a situation where you become dependent on this kind of support... |
wtf kinda bleeding heart posts are this. u act like we don't have a welfare program now, or that I am in favor of not having one
when all I'm doing is defending NASA from utterly myopic viewpoints that suggest that we should make sure that everyone gets paid for not working instead of venturing out human reach to the stars.
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Mar 1999
time: 06:33
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Follow up on my earlier remarks on the decision to not continue the servicing of Hubble:
I just heard NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe on a press briefing say that this decision was made months ago, and had absolutely nothing to do with President Bush's new space exploration initiative.
He said it was purely an assessment of risk following the commitee investigation report on the Columbia disaster. Hubble would have to be serviced by the shuttle, and following the Columbia mishap, NASA is now obligated to have the capacity to perform a rescue effort when they return the shuttle to flight, either by way of launching a second shuttle or by having the astronauts transfered temporarily to the ISS. The decision was whether to focus solely on servicing the ISS or to include other uses for the shuttle, such as servicing Hubble (which has a completely different orbit path than the Station), and either option would involve fundamentally different priorities and safeguarding measures, so at the end of the day, NASA chose to focus on the ISS for the remaining period of time that the shuttle will be in operation. Purely for safety reasons, and not as a result of the recently announced plans to go back to the Moon and on to Mars.
Previous servicing missions to Hubble by the shuttle were made without realising the severe risks those missions exposed the astronauts to, but that has changed following the evaluation report on Columbia, and NASA can't take that risk anymore with the shuttle and its crew.
BTW, starting at 7:30 PM PST (3:30 AM GMT) there will be live commentary and footage from the Mars Rover Control Center, anticipating the touchdown of the Opportunity lander at 9:05 PM PST (5:05 AM GMT) at NASA TV, requires RealPlayer to watch. 
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