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Final shuttle lands tomorrow. Then we have to send our astronauts up in capsules (like back in the 60's) with the Russians at $53 million per person (which will rise to $63 million by 2014). Then NASA is laying off 9000 people. Sounds great for the economy, hope it was worth the spending cuts, because they sure seem to be helping.
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There's already a thread here about that.
Now to continue playing the Devil's advocate: the STS (space shuttle) program cost about $200B over 35 or 40 years. For that we got less than 1,000 astronaut rides to orbit, and 14 in-flight fatalities.
We also put the ISS up there (faster than a speeding bullet, heavier than most locomotives, and higher than tall buildings). Launched and maintained the Hubble space telescope and all manner of other satellites and space probes. Supported 10s of thousands of hours of on-orbit science experiments. I think it was a good investment, and its glamor won't soon be surpassed in the space travel department.
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magnet18 wrote ...
Final shuttle lands tomorrow. Then we have to send our astronauts up in capsules (like back in the 60's) with the Russians at $53 million per person (which will rise to $63 million by 2014). Then NASA is laying off 9000 people. Sounds great for the economy, hope it was worth the spending cuts, because they sure seem to be helping.
I have worked under government funded programs which have ended, like most eventually do. Then I did what normal people do: I moved on to a new program or to a new company (or to grad school). Why should NASA keep employing those 9000 people you refer to if they are currently planning to make heavier use of commercial space flight to support US manned space interests? NASA's budget has been on the rise not on the fall*, so generally speaking that means they are keeping more people employed, not less.
*The current funding situation is rather uncertain as the members of Congress are currently bickering amongst themselves.
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