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Of the companies you mentioned, VASTLY more of their budget comes from weapons systems than space technologies. Like, orders of magnitude more. I know not all of them are in that field--even so, total their space-related revenues and total their military-related revenues and you'll see what a drop in the bucket NASA is in the "areospace" industry.
As far as I'm concerned, compared to what we're facing domestically and abroad, NASA can go hang. And I'm a major space geek. Having an Orion orbiter happen would be great--and getting us the hell out of Iraq, pulling our economy back from the brink, and solving the health care crisis are WAY bigger issues for this voter.
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