Re: SPACE PRIZE
From: Jeff Findley (jeff.findley_at_ugs.nojunk.com)
Date: 07/22/04
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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:07:58 -0400
"Perplexed in Peoria" <jimmenegay@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> "Jeff Findley" <jeff.findley@ugs.nojunk.com> wrote in message
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> > > Are we serious about getting into space, or is this simply more
> > > pork barrel politics to create jobs locally?
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> > Pork barrel politics will always exist at the global level. That's how
> > every government funded space agency works. Generally money spent by a
> > government on space is kept within its borders.
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> Or, in other words, we are not yet serious about getting into space.
> I don't disagree.
Governments are never going to be serious about publicly funded human
spaceflight.
Luckily, we're starting to arrive at a period in history when space travel
by private individuals will happen with, or without, government "help".
Jeff
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