Quite frankly, I have waited in vain for 2 days for someone to post a news as important as this.
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WASHINGTON - Lockheed Martin Corp. won a multibillion-dollar contract Thursday to build a space vehicle to replace NASA's shuttles, put a human on the moon for the first time since 1972 and be the precursor to a manned ship to Mars.
The award marks NASA's most concrete step to fulfill President Bush's two-year-old, $230 billion promise that the space agency would return astronauts to the moon and restore excitement about space exploration.
The reusable vehicle, known as Orion, will look somewhat like a three-man Apollo command module, but will carry as many as six astronauts. Like the shuttle, Orion will be able to carry cargo to and from the international space station.
Personally, I think this is both exciting and suspicious. Interests in the space program have been at an all time low for quite a while. In fact, China's becoming the third nation to be able to send a man into orbit made the news for a whole 1 minute of 1 day on Fox (I know, bad choice for a news source) while Martha's face made the news for a whole freakin' year.
I don't think there is any secret to the Bush Administration's continuing attempts to block scientific findings and progress just because these findings and progress conflict with the Amdinistration's FAITH. What is much less noticable is the Administration's occasional temporary cheer and support for a few
real scientific progress for political gains in the moderate arena. With such a track record, it worries me to think that perhaps this exciting news might just be another waste of my tax dollars for the gay bashers to gain a few more votes.
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