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Cassiopeia

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3. Wonderful.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Wed Apr 27, 2016, 05:03 PM

Apr 2016

I'm sure Congress will leap to action to get this satellite replaced.

Oh yeah, even if they do, Obama would likely stand in the way. That campaign rhetoric of going to Mars was just that, campaign rhetoric.

http://www.universetoday.com/127309/nasa-2017-budget/

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