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Old 08-26-2010, 02:58 PM   #133
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Originally Posted by Azure View Post
Personally I think a lot of research in regards to space exploration, and what it takes to get up there cheap and fast should be done by the private side.
Isn't that a core component of Obama's space plan?

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65R64920100628

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The strategy follows President Barack Obama's blueprint for NASA that cancels the space shuttle follow-on program to return to the moon, hires private space taxis to fly crews to the International Space Station and seeds promising technologies for future human and robotic missions into deep space.
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