Nasa looking to pull the plug on unmanned missions.

[mmalluck]

First Nasa decided they don't have the money to keep the Hubble up and running and now Nasa is looking to scarp their currently operating unmanned missions.

 

It's discussed here in this article.

 

I think it's very sad that we could loose these probes right when the data they are returning is coming so close to fruitarian.

 

We have the Voyager probes, which already have proved useful in finding error in classical Newtonian gravity, and are just now approaching the heliopause. Considering it's taken 30 years of funding to get them this far, why not wait until after we know how thick the heliopause is before we cut off all communications?

 

The Ulysses is a solar probe and supposed to run until 2007 or 2008 (to the end of the current 22 year solar cycle). It would seem silly to pull the plug so close to the end.

 

Apparently this is upsetting a lot of solar scientist. In the case of Voyager, it only needs 4.2 million a year to keep the project up and running. It's sad that they would consider cutting this project to save such a little amount (It takes a billion dollars for a single shuttle launch).

 

I want people to get upset and think about doing something to help Nasa. If fans of Star Trek can scarp together several million dollars for another season of enterprise, why can't we do the same to help out Nasa?

[coquina]

First Nasa decided they don't have the money to keep the Hubble up and running and now Nasa is looking to scarp their currently operating unmanned missions.

 

I want people to get upset and think about doing something to help Nasa. If fans of Star Trek can scarp together several million dollars for another season of enterprise' date=' why can't we do the same to help out Nasa?[/quote']

 

There have also been huge budget cuts at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA - just down the road from me. It's primary mission is aeronautics and advanced materials research. A lot of the on site work is done by subcontractors, who just had to cut out 700 jobs - there's talk of 1,000 NASA employees being cut in the next year. They're threatening to shut down the wind tunnels too.

[us.2u]

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/voyager1-05a.html

 

 

 

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[us.2u]

Just a thought; if any of you moderators can set up a donation forum, to help out Nasa I'm happy to oblige & maybe all the Astro-Physics forums & the like could follow suit how about it?...us.2u