WaPo notices NASA woes

Whaddya know? Even the Washington Post has figured out NASA’s having some troubles.

July 31st, 2006 1:14 PM by Phil Plait in NASA, Science | 3 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

3 Responses to “WaPo notices NASA woes”

1. Caleb Turberville Says:
July 31st, 2006 at 4:05 pm

I figured out how to solve NASA’s problems. Privatize all non-military extra-terrestrial activities, like the good ole Constitution calls for.
2. Blake Stacey Says:
July 31st, 2006 at 8:12 pm

Ah yes, the little known Twenty-two-and-a-halfth Amendment, covering all exploration above an altitude of 150 miles! “Those space exploration duties not expressly reserved for the Federal Government are granted to the States or to the people. Congress shall pass no law infringing upon the ability of corporations to ferry pop singers into orbit and sell meaningless names for distant stars.”

When deep space exploration ramps up, it’ll be the corporations that name everything: the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

–Fight Club (1999)
3. Paul Bevillard Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 9:45 am

And don’t forget a football team from the moon called Moon Raiders.

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