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        <title><![CDATA[Why bother...]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-5518-37596]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Developing a replacement for the space shuttle would distract NASA from their primary mission as outlined in the Obama Administrations 2012 budget.Working with Middle East nations to embrace in their history of scientific work.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hates Idiots]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:28:19 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Space shuttle's finale puts space industrial base at risk, says aerospace executive]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-5518-37407]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[unless NASA mapped out a shuttle successor plan within the next four to eight months. It will be at least forty to eighty months if not years to do that and then only if congress gets off it's but and gives them big  $$$.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Me_too]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:35:36 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Apollo Project]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-5518-37399]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[The Apollo project as well as the goal of manned space flight to the moon was a rare government project that finished the goal ahead of schedule and under budget.  Learning how to get to the moon produced many positive spinoffs that helped make things from teflon to micro electronics.   After Apollo 11 returned to earth is when the debate about spending money for better causes began.  People lost interest in space exploration even while the technology made great gains in their lives.  The shuttle program was not ambitious enough.  It was a big difference in building the international space station in low earth orbit as well as launching many satellites including the Hubble telescope.  Compared to the first 10 years of space exploration, the last 30 years was quite timid.  A new space vehicle could have been designed 15 to 20 years ago to replace the shuttles and be in use now.  It is sad that the shuttles are going to be turned into museum pieces like the last Saturn V rocket was turned into a lawn ornament.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sboverie]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:30:42 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Space shuttle's finale puts space industrial base at risk, says aerospace executive]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-5518-37370]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[We as a country are losing our intellectual drive.  Both grown ups and young people don't want to think.  Just give me my iPad and let Twitter and Facebook.  Pretty soon the US will be full of fat slugs lying on our cots consuming media content like the spaceship passengers in Wall-E.If we as a nation don't aspire to more then slug-dom we'll fade into obscurity.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ghirte@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:14:07 -0800</pubDate>
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