Article on NASA and my hometown

[Escaep]

Excellent article is up on Yahoo about the town I currently live in and its ties to the space program. I really can confirm everything the article says, I go to Astronaut High and enrollment I believe is roughly 1200 kids, down normally from 1600-1800. Most likely what will happen in the next year or two is they will shut down my high school and merge the students with the other high school in town (thankfully I'm graduating.) This is due in part to the mass exodus that will most likely occur at the conclusion of the space shuttle program. Not only will at least 7,000 people will lose their jobs, but you can count on the nurses who's husbands work at KSC, the construction workers who build houses for KSC employees, the restaurants who serve KSC employees, and the other business that thrive on the money created by the space center.

The hope around Titusville and Kennedy Space Center was that most of the 8,000 NASA shuttle contract workers would simply flow into corresponding positions in the Constellation program. But preliminary projections two years ago found that Kennedy could lose as much as 80 percent of its contract workforce, about 6,400 jobs.

As if that wasn't bad enough, this year Obama revealed a 2011 budget with no money allocated for Constellation, effectively canceling Bush’s plan and instead recommending that the focus be on privatized spaceflight. Though Congress still has to OK the measure, Titusville faces the possibility of another economic upheaval.

"About 25 percent of the students have direct ties to the space center, but when you add those who are tied indirectly — the people who support the space program, the construction workers, local businesses, food providers, et cetera — the number goes up a whole lot," Humphrey said. "We’re all somehow connected to the space center; it’s what drives our economy."

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Obama's election race views on space: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=26647

Develop the Next-Generation of Space Vehicles:

As president, Obama will support the development of this vital new platform to ensure that the United States' reliance on foreign space capabilities is limited to the minimum possible time period.

However as the article above said:

As if that wasn't bad enough, this year Obama revealed a 2011 budget with no money allocated for Constellation, effectively canceling Bush’s plan and instead recommending that the focus be on privatized spaceflight.

 

[Mr-Fusion]

Privatized space flight is probably the way to go. As annoying as it is, taxpayers just don't see the need when they can't find jobs, when hospitals need funding, etc.

Can't sit here dreaming of the stars when the basics of life need to be met.

So the interspecies sex will be gifted to another generation
That's the most disappointing.

 

[Vegeta897]

/me enters thread
/me scrolls slowly past walls of text
/me spots female alien
/me cums

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

I will never look at xenomorphs the same way again and this is coming from a guy who has looked up Aliens porn.

 

[Mr. Djees]

But when you pop her cherry... Acid...

oh god.

 

[Danimal]

I WILL PUMP YOU WITH MY SEED