The wrong stuff. (manned space exploration)

From: The Progressive | Date: July 1, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

The latest money-wasting incarnation of the US space program, Space Station Freedom, should not be funded in the fiscal 1996 budget. The history of US space exploration is festooned with budget overruns, mistaken priorities, tragedy, and political meddling.

I am of a generation that still distinguished between intellect and reason. Intellect separates the possible from the impossible, reason the sensible from the senseless. Space travel is a triumph of intellect but a tragic failure of reason. --Max Born (1882-1970)

July 20, 1994, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first Apollo ...

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