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Josh Cryer

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Registered: 2001-09-29

Posts: 3,830

Re: Bush's New Space Policy - Discussion, reactions, questions...

I thought the French drank wine, dickbill?

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Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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The amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth totals some 3.9 million exajoules a year.

clark

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Registered: 2001-09-20

Posts: 6,374

Re: Bush's New Space Policy - Discussion, reactions, questions...

Dickbill,

LOL!  :laugh:

Remember that your good martian beer is bought by my back-breaking and complaining work in those He3 mines that supply you with all that nice cheap energy.

Cheers! 

dickbill

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Registered: 2002-09-28

Posts: 749

Re: Bush's New Space Policy - Discussion, reactions, questions...

I thought the French drank wine, dickbill?

yes they do. The problem is on Mars the climate is a little bit too cold. Under the domes it's like Montreal in November. We have to adapt in local conditions. Winyards won't be too succesful and with all the iron in the soil, the wine tastes strange.

But if you send me a bottle of red, I'll take it.

Yang Liwei Rocket

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Registered: 2004-03-03

Posts: 993

Re: Bush's New Space Policy - Discussion, reactions, questions...

There is more on it, can Bush put people living on Mars? people have said some hard words on the plan others have said it is flawed and it could be nothing but an election stunt others have said worse words like it is
designed to shut down the ISS and eliminate the space shuttle. It could also adversely effect future funding for NASA robotic missions and it's a a veiled measure to phase out funding justification for any future science oriented space programs.

NASA about to dump another functional spacecraft
TRMM team members said they expect the order to arrive any day to turn off the satellite’s four working instruments and start preparing the craft for an ocean disposal.
news

harsh public criticism for its decision to cancel space shuttle servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope, and congressional critics of the Bush initiative

US space agency, NASA, has decided to decommission a highly successful satellite
NASA denies funding for one of its top and  key satellites
say good bye to TRMM. NASA is allowing a highly successful satellite to fall out of Earth's orbit by refusing to fund
NASA will decommission the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) later this year. A highly successful scientific research mission

NASA’s plan to drop a healthy environmental satellite into the ocean next year has provoked an outcry from scientists and touched off a flurry of last minute discussions between the U.S. and other space agencies.

NY times

July  2004
Panel Urges NASA
to Save Hubble Space Telescope
By Warren E. Leary

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An expert panel from
the National Academy of Sciences said Tuesday
that the Hubble Space Telescope was too valuable
to be allowed to die in orbit and that NASAshould
commit itself to a servicing mission to extend its
life, perhaps with astronauts in a space shuttle.
“NASA should take no actions that would
preclude a space shuttle servicing mission to the
Hubble Space Telescope,” • SAVE HUBBLE (cont’d.)

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