Re: WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 16 Mar 07 Washington, DC

On Mar 21, 12:29 pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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2. NASA BUDGET: NO ROOM FOR THE ALPHA MAGNETIC SPECTROMETER.
Yesterday, Bart Gordon (D-TN), chair of the House S&T Committee,
noted that the budget reality bears little resemblance to the
"rosy projections" offered by the Administration when the
President announced his "Vision for Space Exploration" three
years ago. Don't scrap the vision - kill the science. One
casualty is the $1.5 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer that was
scheduled to go to the ISS on a 2008 shuttle flight. Griffin now
says there's no room for the AMS on the shuttle because every
flight is crammed with hardware to finish the ISS. It wouldn't
do to drop an unfinished ISS into the ocean. The AMS was
designed to search for antimatter. Nobel prize winner Sam Ting
of MIT, made the case for AMS personally to Dan Goldin. It was
cited repeatedly by NASA to show that the ISS would do basic
sciencehttp://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN98/wn061298.html.

Deorbit the ISS onto the VLB containing the shuttles. Two birds, one
stone.

What is the ISS even *FOR* anymore? Not even enough room to stuff on
an experiment designed specifically to work on the ISS...

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