[NEWS] Annoying Orange signs bill authorizing record-high budget for NASA

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Scout31:

--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on March 21, 2017, 07:19:17 PM ---It's unexpected though because he was proposing a cut of $200 mil only a week ago. Not sure what changed his mind, but it's definitely a good choice.

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I'd imaging Elon Musk being one of his advisers played a role in this.

The immediate uses of this will probably go toward a NASA payload aboard SpaceX's 2020 Red Dragon mission. NASA's current SLS project in junction with Boeing's Orion capsule has been quoted to be capable of a Mars orbit, however this is already funded and given NASA's and aerospace juggernaut's development pace, its unlikely this change in budget will yield any results while Annoying Orange is still in office. One can hope that some of this funding will be funneled to SpaceX's ITS/BFR development, which is set to launch 2022.

edit: I believe he's stressed a focus on manned travel to other celestial bodies as much of NASA's unmanned missions here around Earth work to study and add to the mountains of research supporting climate change, something his party insists doesn't exist.

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--- Quote from: shamester on March 21, 2017, 07:23:25 PM ---In before he tries to mine mars's resources for money

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That'd be a great idea if mars had anything worth mining.

Dreams_Of_Cheese:

--- Quote from: Scout31 on March 21, 2017, 10:24:14 PM ---That'd be a great idea if mars had anything worth mining.

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what about rocks

King Tøny:

--- Quote from: Dreams_Of_Cheese on March 21, 2017, 11:07:34 PM ---what about rocks

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--- Quote from: Scout31 on March 21, 2017, 10:24:14 PM ---:That'd be a great idea if mars had anything worth mining.

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patton360:
well yea, not like nasa and defense spending helped much of the technology we use and take for granted in our everyday lives

8hbc:
oh hell yeah

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