New NASA moon rocket could cost $38 billion

mfcorey1

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Fri Aug-05-11 07:27 PM
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New NASA moon rocket could cost $38 billion

WASHINGTON -- The rocket and capsule that NASA is proposing to return astronauts to the moon would fly just twice in the next 10 years and cost as much as $38 billion, according to internal NASA documents obtained by the Orlando Sentinel.

The money would pay for a new heavy-lift rocket and Apollo-like crew capsule that eventually could take astronauts to the moon and beyond. But it would not be enough to pay for a lunar landing – or for more than one manned test flight, in 2021

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/os-nasa-next-moonshot-20110805,0,4257663.story

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Fri Aug-05-11 07:29 PM
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1. If we could load up all the teabaggers in it, it's worth every penny.

TO THE MOON!

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