The Phoenix Has Landed, or Hope Icy.

[TheMercenary]

So now to further our research NASA has promised to pay the Russians 19 million dollars to install a second toilet on the space station next year. And we are about to lauch a space shuttle to take a frigging pump part to the space station to fix the existing toilet...

Now what was that you all were saying about how important it is to have the space station and how it was small change??

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

About $400-500 million.

2-3 days worth of Iraq. And already budgeted for.

And I didn't say that the shuttle was small change, I said that the toilet was, and the fact that a toilet broke...

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Now what was that you all were saying about how important it is to have the space station and how it was small change??

...isn't some sort of revelatory experience.

[barefoot serpent]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

So now to further our research NASA has promised to pay the Russians 19 million dollars to install a second toilet on the space station next year. And we are about to lauch a space shuttle to take a frigging pump part to the space station to fix the existing toilet...

Now what was that you all were saying about how important it is to have the space station and how it was small change??

you need to read tws post again...

These exploratory spacecraft are inexpensive. Only 10% of the NASA budget is spent on what does all the science - unmanned spacecraft. The 90% spent on manned programs has yet to be doing any useful science. $80billion on a space station that was only supposed to cost $8billion - and it still has never done any useful science.

unmanned robots don't need a toilet.