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| Subject: Unemployed statist astronauts hustling Congress: Bring back the space shuttles Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:37 am | |
| The United States desperately needs a way to get its astronauts to space and back — and one solution could be taking NASA's space shuttle fleet out of retirement, famed moonwalkers Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan told Congress Thursday.
Without an independent way to launch astronauts into low-Earth orbit, the United States risks ceding its global leadership in space to other nations such as Russia and China, the former Apollo astronauts said. So developing that access should be a top priority for NASA and the country, with other space exploration goals and capabilities following naturally afterward.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44631718/ns/technology_and_science-space/ |
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