For a 100 billion dollar a year NASA Budget

NASA should research and build:

a) OSP - orbiting space plane, an SSTO successor to the Space Shuttle

with similar cargo capacity.

b) JIMO - jupiter icy moons orbitor. nuclear powered space craft to

look for water on europa.

c) Moon / Mars - go back to the moon, put a man on mars.

d) Giant Hubble successor - build a space telescope capable of

resolving features of planets around other stars.

e) Total climate monitoring. Cover all the bases of Earth.

f) Venus Surface Explorer - put a robot on Venus, and get some pictures

of it.

g) Orion - nuclear bomb powered spaceship to fly all over solar system

in style.

"stork" <tbandrow@storkyak.com> wrote in message

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> NASA should research and build:

> a) OSP - orbiting space plane, an SSTO successor to the Space Shuttle

> with similar cargo capacity.

Why? Have they crashed all the old Shuttle's?

> b) JIMO - jupiter icy moons orbitor. nuclear powered space craft to

> look for water on europa.

Why? We already got plenty of water.

> c) Moon / Mars - go back to the moon, put a man on mars.

Why? Been to the Moon, nothing there. Already seen Mars, no Starbucks, no

pubs, no tastey animals.

> d) Giant Hubble successor - build a space telescope capable of

> resolving features of planets around other stars.

Why? So we can see if there are humanoids even dumber than we are waving

back?

> e) Total climate monitoring. Cover all the bases of Earth.

Why? The Weather Channel is as good as it gets, even though they suck.

> f) Venus Surface Explorer - put a robot on Venus, and get some pictures

> of it.

Why? Use your imagination, its cheaper. Here, I'll help you: Its very

fucking hot there, no fucking oxygen, no Starbucks, no tastey animals. Look

at all that money we just saved!

> g) Orion - nuclear bomb powered spaceship to fly all over solar system

> in style.

Why? There's nothing there. There's nobody there. Just a collection of

stupid looking rocky dirtball planets with no Starbuck's, no pubs, and no

tastey animals.

Here's what we really need:

Take all the really smart guys at NASA and put them in a stadium somewhere.

(If you work at NASA and weren't selected to go to the stadium - you're

fired.)

Okay, we need a launch facility where we can shoot large containers of

radioactive material into the Sun, okay? (If you think this will zap out

the Sun tell us right now you fuckers.)

How come just a bird fart is all it takes to make my cellphone's 5 bars drop

to ONE? Get working on this right now.

Your Space Station ain't shit. Why do you have to kiss Russian ass to do

everything? Fuck 'em. I want a new Space Station that doesn't look stupid.

It needs a Starbuck's and a pub. And you should be able to finish it in a

couple of years.

Sometimes I can't be in the same room with myself. However you handle air

circulation on that crappy Space Station you should make that work in our

homes.

Did you fuckers really go to the Moon? Prove it.