Re: News - Budget Crunch Delays NASA's Moon Ship

On Mar 2, 6:23 am, Pat Flannery <flan...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rusty wrote:
Budget Crunch Delays NASA's Moon Ship

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2913031

NASA to Delay New Moon Spacecraft Because of Budget Constraints

"When you don't fly for four or more years, people become stale ...
facilities degrade. It's not a good thing," he said. "Our human
spaceflight expertise will be depleted to a certain extent."

Here we go..."Maybe we could fly a few more Shuttle missions than we
originally planned."

Pat

Where would the money come from? At $500M a shot it would push Orion a
couple of years into the undiscovered country.

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