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Slashdot -- "According to the Guardian, the Augustine panel is going to declare that there is simply no money to go back to the moon, and the next-generation Ares I rocket is likely to be scrapped unless there is more funding.

Дай-то бог. Дай-то бог.

Date: 2009-08-14 07:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] glocka.livejournal.com
Smoke and mirrors, as always and always and always:
On the surface we are protected from solar particle emissions by the atmosphere and the Earth's magnetic field. No financially affordable solution has been found yet to a problem of protecting the crue at hights beyond the Earth's radiation schield (http://www.islandone.org/Settlements/MagShield.html).

Date: 2009-08-15 12:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scriptum.livejournal.com
А как же мы без гелия? Придется ловить железные астероиды.