so how long do you think it will take for someone to try and say that the Bush administration was responsible for bringing down the shuttle Columbia to draw away interest from Iraq, N. Korea, and Al Qaida????? my money is on tuesday.

Monday, and it will be brought up by a Democrat.

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Pe-emptive bitching, gotta love the puppy Right Wing!

It's already been done on various boards "It's murderous Bush's fault for providing less funds for the space program" What a$$holes. I hate the left. Bout time your left wing morons are predictable so we might as bitch cause we know it's coming.

No, I'm not a Liberal or Leftist, you'd be hard pressed to find a money loving capitalist like myself who is. but I am anti-Bush. Most of your stripe can't contemplate the shades of gray so you reduce it to us vs. them, Dem vs.Repub.
Bitch to those folks on those threads. Bitch for no other reason than to bitch is to be a bitch.

draw away interest from Iraq, N. Korea, and Al Qaida????? my money is on tuesday.

well wudn't he kind of want that b/c so many ppl are against iraq? think about it, if the democrats are distracted with columbia maybe they'll stop bitching about iraq

hah 11:30 around there cnn already talkin to a CIA guy on television about the possibility of terrorist haha got we are such pussys...

It's already been done on various boards "It's murderous Bush's fault for providing less funds for the space program" What a$$holes.

God where are these idiots, I need a gun...quick someone give me a gun!!! Point me to the boards grunt, I got a bone to pic with these twits.

The whole reason why I gave a # about bush over gore, was because in his economic plan it provided for an additional 1 billion dollars to manned space flight, which is an additional 1/14th of the programs entire budget, and his plan over the course of the 4 years of his term would continue to raise the space budget till it reached a near 16 billion dollars a year.

Which is more than that bastard clinton ever did...we should linch him from a tree.

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It just shows how stupid some people are, I can't provide a link yet Nasa changed their website all around, but they used to have the planned budgets posted down to how much they were spending for their hammers.

And Bush increased the space budget. From Clinton's 12-13 billion a year, to about 16 billion a year.

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Yeah they revamped the entire website, makes things harder to find, but mostly, I still don't see the table comparisons I was looking at just over a year ago on Nasa's website.

It laid out the budget increases for each fiscal year, Bush increased it the most...I'll look at the provided link when I have more time.

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Although the "accident" is tragic and my heart goes out to the families of the crew members, I salute all past and future crews for thier bravery and fortitude. I know we'll continue to grow and expand our space exploration because we have to, it is part of who we are as a civilization. It is humanities destiny to venture into the stars and see what is actually out there.

NASA has been telling us for the last 5 years that the current shuttle fleet is aging and will need to be replaced soon. I'm not sure but I think this leaves NASA with only 2 or 3 operational craft left, since the Enterprise was given to the Smithsonian. But quite frankly the safety record for the shuttle program is amazing considering the possible problems they face.

Only 2 fatal accidents in 107 missions is truly amazing. If only our commercial aircraft could match that safety record, more people would leave their autos at home and fly more.

Has anyone seen any of the information concerning the next-gen of shuttlecraft? They look very sleek and will apparently use the scram-jet propulsion system. Very cool stuff.

And I beg of you all, please do not politicize the space program!! It is not and never has been about politics, is is much more than that, and the folks who are involved in the program are truly the best and brightest on the face of Terra.

Peace to all mankind

What ever happened to the x-33?