Reply #39: Checked first link.

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Here's it for that link -- " Senator William Proxmire (D-WI), who successfully led the fight against the SST in 1971, called Nixon's decision to go ahead with what he estimated to be the "$15.5" billion shuttle project, "an outrageous distortion of budgetary priorities." The President, Proxmire said, had chosen the Space Shuttle over schools, public health, housing, mass transit, open space, environmental needs and other vital programs".

So what exactly has changed from Proxmire's original outlook? Space has become cluttered with the Pentagon's Star Wars crap. And tell me they're not fucking aching for a chance to use it.

& just to keep us rubes' eyes off the ball we get cell phone connectivity, great Hubble pictures, genetically-engineered crops(Good For You!!! Just ask DuPont, etc..) and the capability of staring at the Weather Channel. Major planet-enhancing accomplishments there NASA. And the overall thrust of Proxmire's concerns(as stated in your link) have STILL not been addressed 30+ years later.

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