Re: back to the moon ....

"Esmail Bonakdarian" <ebonak-a@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:h0lWe.14188$YI6.4859@xxxxxxxxxxx
> NASA to Unveil Plans to Send 4 Astronauts to Moon in 2018
>
> By Brian Berger
> Space News Staff Writer
> posted: 14 September 2005
> 6:43 p.m. ET
>
>
> WASHINGTON – NASA briefed senior White House officials Wednesday on its
> plan to spend $100 billion and the next 12 years building the spacecraft
> and rockets it needs to put humans back on the Moon by 2018.

Yawn. What a waste. Humans to the moon for what?

Oh wait. We can build a New New Orleans there where
it would be safe from flooding.

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