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NASA could be getting ready to set up a manned space outpost now that President Barack Obama is back in the White House. A space policy expert told Space.com that the agency has been thinking about sending astronauts to the far side of the Moon so it can establish a human presence in deep space and so to help with a planned …

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  1. Al42
    Angel

    nasa v uk space program from the uk

    SIGH. I was watching breakfast TV this morning and some charity rep was moaning that the UK

    was cuting the £280 Millonare grant to India

    This is a country with lots own space atomic reactors and weapons etc

    Where over here British aerospace cut research and development in a htol a single stage to orbit engine / plane

    Google reaction engines...

    And weep for a further dose of misery look for the TV program Rocket Men

    NOTHING THAT NASA COULD DO DOES CAN BE WITHIN any magiude of this

    1. John Smith 19 Gold badge
      Happy

      Re: nasa v uk space program from the uk

      "Where over here British aerospace cut research and development in a htol a single stage to orbit engine / plane"

      That was a *long* time ago. It's fair to say REL have been *over* that disappointment for a *long* time.

      "And weep for a further dose of misery look for the TV program Rocket Men"

      I found it rather up beat personally. New decade. New rules.

      "NOTHING THAT NASA COULD DO DOES CAN BE WITHIN any magiude of this"

      Which is why REL have *no* desire to be come a UK *government* funded programme. Actually the Skylon/SABRE development budget is roughly 2/3 of *all* NASA's budget for *one* year.

      BTW spell check is your friend.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    If only...

    ...we could ship Obama and the other bureacrats in Washington, to deep, deep space, forever.

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