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Buckwheat Leaps Backward

Mike

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In his speech today, Obama will detail a revised plan to develop a smaller version of NASA's Orion spacecraft, the crew capsule that had been part of the return-to-the-moon program, the White House announced Tuesday. The scaled-back capsule would be used for an emergency crew escape at the International Space Station, eliminating the need to buy Russian spacecraft for that purpose.

That would mostly offset the possible job losses at Kennedy Space Center and would save some other threatened NASA jobs around the country.

The announcement of the president's proposal didn't impress lawmakers who have blasted Obama's plans to abandon a manned moon mission and to rely on commercial rockets to ferry people to the space station.

"While the administration may have finally realized that its initial budget request was a complete disaster, the new plan, from the same team, still ends human spaceflight," said Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., who sits on the subcommittee that decides how much to spend on NASA. "The president has replaced one visionless plan with another."

The comedy continues.................................
 

hypocritexposer

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