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# science
An awful lot is riding on JWST and there's a huge risk that if something goes wrong, deep space astronomy could be set back decades.
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The left seems to believe that private space companies will be fine with sacrificing their customers for profit.
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NASA is trying to keep Constellation on life support by exploiting a loophole in its currently open-ended mission while Congress looks the other way.
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Politicians still can't figure out exactly what they want NASA to be or do. And that's hurting both its budget and its ability to plan.
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NASA's ability to hit ambitious future targets has to rely on private companies willing and eager to get to space, not traditional defense contractors.
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NASA is looking to fix its problems and gear up for sustainable missions. But the actual numbers leave much to be desired.
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If NASA was funded as well as most Americans think it is, we would live in an amazing world straight out of our retrofuturistic dreams.
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If we'll ever meaningfully explore space, the first thing we need is a vision from our leaders that stretches beyond just winning the next election.
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Time calls the Ares rocket one of this year's best inventions. The problem is that nothing about Ares is actually new or inventive...
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America won the space race and the Cold War. Now, its access to space will be controlled by the whims of the country it defeated thanks to its myopic politicians.