Top Gear- The new Lunar Rover

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5. LightAng3l 1 year ago

Of course moon mission funding was canceled. Why should we reach for the stars when we can reach for a bag of Star chips on our couch? Lets just use all our work and money and bright people to design more efficient methods of killing each other!

If there are no more space missions and dreams of space exploration...we should go back to our caves... game over.

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7. Natan_el_Tigre 1 year ago

"A 1997 poll reported that Americans had an average estimate of 20% for NASA's share of the federal budget. In reality, NASA's budget has been between 0.5% and 1% from the late 1960s on. NASA budget briefly peaked at over 4% of the federal budget in the mid-1960s during the build up to the Apollo program."

(More: http://si.academia.edu/RogerLaunius/Papers/93299/_Public_Opinion_Polls_and_Perceptions_of_US_Human_Spaceflight_)

"Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, "Because it is there." Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the Moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked."
—John F. Kennedy, Speech at Rice University

We the people ... what have we become?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWiIYW_fBfY

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9. Skeesicks 1 year ago

6:49...Cover cameras before use

Maybe Cape Canaveral does not want to see pooping astronauts