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GulfCoast66

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9. When we put a man on the moon we gave NASA around 4% of our budget.

Reply to tulipsandroses (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2019, 11:30 PM

Oct 2019

Now it’s less than .5 percent.

If we gave NASA half our defense budget we would be back to the moon in 2121. Mars in 2026.

Space is expensive. You have to invent he technology needed.

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Trump - We are going to put a man on the face of the moon [View all] tulipsandroses Oct 2019 OP

And nobody has ever done that before dalton99a Oct 2019 #1

Some People Are Saying Trump was the first one there but it was covered up! NCLefty Oct 2019 #16

Oh... wow, lol BootinUp Oct 2019 #2

Let's Do The Time Warp Again! The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2019 #3

... BumRushDaShow Oct 2019 #21

Perhaps that man will be Frederick Douglass. Garrett78 Oct 2019 #4

He wants only this shrine though. Croney Oct 2019 #5

Lol. Idiot. Glimmer of Hope Oct 2019 #6

OOOH, Lets send him. One way! Liberal In Texas Oct 2019 #7

Deplorable dipshits. oasis Oct 2019 #8

When we put a man on the moon we gave NASA around 4% of our budget. GulfCoast66 Oct 2019 #9

He has been talking about this for years...a second USA virgogal Oct 2019 #10

New name alert! REPUBLICLOWNS 🤡. nt live love laugh Oct 2019 #11

"But, sir, we did that fifty years ago." "YOU SEE? WINNING!!!" regnaD kciN Oct 2019 #12

I have an idea of who we can send! nt woodsprite Oct 2019 #13

Brian Williams presented this gem to his panel then asked.... spanone Oct 2019 #14

that was a great segment Grasswire2 Oct 2019 #19

I was still insanely up when he had that segment BumRushDaShow Oct 2019 #22

This is "Idiocracy 2" RainCaster Oct 2019 #15

I predict he has a Vegas show after all this, at one of Sheldon Adelson's casinos. NCLefty Oct 2019 #17

Pic crazytown Oct 2019 #18

Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin- # HoldMyTang irisblue Oct 2019 #20