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more about #spaceprogram aerospaceman: NASA is inefficient. its budget should go towards prizes for breakthroughs in reducing the cost of access to space. Like the X Prize, but with billion... more » AlphaUltima: the sooner the USA figures out how to get to mars, the sooner we can dump mother earth and head to barely legal coed mars. more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: Actually, we're not spending enough on NASA. NASA has had its budget cut year after year after year since the Space Race became 'mundane' to the popu... more » axiomatic: Guess what people, we are going to run out of resources someday. Then some time after than our galaxies sun is going to supernova. We are going to hav... more » Sean Robertson: Let me put it this way. The drug program, widely known to be an abject failure, receives nearly DOULBE the funding that NASA receives. We get almost... more » my name is jonas: Trying to find a way to make NASA more efficient is the best solution. NASA, like other government agencies is incredibly wasteful, but you get away ... more » mullingitover: Disband the military. It's worthless. Spend every penny that's saved on NASA. more » jonhapimp: what no manbearpig? more » Pessimippöpötåmus: Poor spacebat. Although Laika will always have my heart. Poor dog. You're 100x more awesome than me, even in death. more » bosskev: Astronimal? Wasn't that a short-lived TV series in the 80s starring Simon MacCorkindale? more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: Let's be honest. All of these animals, especially the cats, were pussies compared to SpaceBat. They went in the comfort of inside the shuttle. But... more » SigmundTheSeaMonster: Quark! ANd I don't mean the page layout one... more » Curves: It looks like the parking lot at WalMart for some reason..... more » d_r_e: Way to fuck it up for everyone Russia! more » frigg: I wonder if they'll have some kind of space clean up effort eventually, just like they had that effort to clean up some of the crap left on Everest. more » Gawd: Jack's rant is the truth... Wall-E's future is not far off from reality. Take that pic above, couple it with the pic below (courtesy of Jalopnik) and ... more » Andrew Free: so this is basically dodging a shotgun when a space shuttle is launched. if one heat thermal tile gets f'ed up then reentry is going to be a bitch. more » mricyfire: Is it possible to just put a magnet up there to collect the pieces? more » Philip Marquis: JUPATER CRAFT IS FAIL ARIES IS FTW saddly the fucktard obama wil lission to them or cut nassas budgit all togather but the buity of aries is its MULTI... more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: But Obama's face on it, or change it's name to "Change-1" or "Hope-4" or the "Ba-rocket", and it might pique his interest. more » -
#questionoftheday
Are We Spending Too Much On NASA?
Yesterday Obama unveiled an $18.7 billion budget for NASA in 2010—a 5% increase over this past year. This is a preliminary figure that could change after a 3-month review of the agency is completed. More » -
#space
Animal Astronauts: The Unsung Heroes of Space Travel
Astroblogger Leroy Chiao belongs to an elite, exclusive club of earthlings who have ventured into space. Also in that club? Animals. Lots of them. This is tribute to the world's bravest "astronimals." More » -
#space
Satellite Collision May Have Endangered All Future Space Launches
Remember when those two satellites collided the other day? Seems that they'll be the space junk gift that keeps on giving, as their 800-km debris orbiting field could hamper all future space launches. More » -
#space
Rogue NASA Science Team Pitches New Spacecraft Designs to Obama
NASA, when it isn't finding rogue space lights or mysterious BOOMs of the non-Steve Jobsian variety, is apparently sending rogue science teams to brief President-elect Obama on the future of the space program. More » -
#hubblespacetelescope
Hubble Resumes Operations, Sends Back Picture of Lost Starfox 64 Level
The Hubble Telescope, which was quite nearly lost this month to a combination of old age and a fritzy 486, has resumed "regular science operations" today, and sent back this spectacular picture of a pair of galaxies engaging in some kind of celestial slow dance. The mission to replace the Science Instrument Command and Data Handling unit (SIC&DH), the temperamental system at the heart this whole debacle, is planned for April of next year. Until then we'll be able to depend on a steady supply of cosmo-porn, courtesy of the Hubble's backup systems. More » -
