At last!
NASA announced that it was going to unveil the (concept) replacement spacecraft for the aging Space Shuttle fleet next week as well as the plan to return humanity to the moon and beyond by the year 2018.
The plan calls for NASA to spend $100 billion over the next twelve years to develop a kind of wedge spacecraft that would seat four astronaughts and would ride atop a huge booster rocket complete with five main engines, solid rocket boosters and.....massive external fuel tanks. (Groan).
Oh, here we go again. Bigger tanks, more foam.
Perhaps they should spend the next twelve years fixing the external fuel tank foam, since it helped to destroy one shuttle and damaged another.
Someone needs to talk to those engineers about coming up with a better solution than external fuel tanks.
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