NASA's sad quest
- From: Rich <none@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:48:23 -0500
Note the name, "Rocket Center." Sounds like something out of the
1950s, doesn't it? You know why? Because it IS, the technology, that
is. In fact, chemical rockets are not much more evolved now than when
the Chinese used them first in warfare, about 1000 years ago. Pretty
sad, when you think of it.
Worse yet, the best rocket the U.S. ever built, the Saturn V has been
oxidizing at a display at the Johnson Space Center since the
mid-1970s.
But, $600,000 is nothing so it's not like they spent ISS- type money
on this fiasco chaser.
-Rich
NASA awards propulsion technology grant
NASA's science mission directorate announced Tuesday the awarding of a
grant to develop advanced propulsions technologies for use beyond
Earth orbit.
The grant, with a maximum potential of $600,000, was awarded the
Aerojet Redmond Rocket Center, in Redmond, Wash.
NASA said the purpose of the research is to enable or reduce trip
times, mass, and/or cost associated with science missions to the outer
planets, satellites, and other solar system destinations.
The research also supports the Vision for Space Exploration project,
NASA's long-term plan to return astronauts to the moon and extend
exploration to Mars and beyond into the solar system.
Copyright 2005 by United Press International
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