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Friday, January 02, 2009


Looks like Barry is coming out in favor of NASA's new lunar program, but this article is unclear how he's going to do it.
President-elect Barack Obama will probably tear down long-standing barriers between the U.S.’s civilian and military space programs to speed up a mission to the moon amid the prospect of a new space race with China.

Obama’s transition team is considering a collaboration between the Defense Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration because military rockets may be cheaper and ready sooner than the space agency’s planned launch vehicle, which isn’t slated to fly until 2015, according to people who’ve discussed the idea with the Obama team.
News flash. A Delta/Atlas rocket is available, right now, to just about anyone that can pay for it. Making it a stable platform to stick a couple of breathing humans on top is not a trivial task. And the DoD wants to be separate from NASA for a reason. They get more money to play with their space toys, and that's the way they likes it.



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