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Old 12-10-2004, 12:26 PM   #8
SteveDallas
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Originally Posted by TheSnake
America's fascination with space has died. And this among other reasons has resulted in a large drop of funding for NASA. Missions to space are amazingly expensive and often yield few results that people can hang on to. In our increasingly immediate gratification society, space fervor is gone.
Well let's face it, stuff like Galileo and Cassini, or even Apollo, don't look as good as Star Wars. When we have a cool fighter ship like Ob-Wan Kenobi flew in Episode II, people will come around.
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