NASA Funding Boost, But No Shuttle Extension in Obama Budget

adeelarshad82 writes to point out that details have been provided for President Obama's proposed $18.7 billion in funding for NASA in 2010 (up from $17.2 billion in 2008). Quoting: "The budget calls on NASA to complete International Space Station construction, as well as continue its Earth science missions and aviation research. Yet it also remains fixed to former President George W. Bush's plan to retire the space shuttle fleet by 2010 and replace them with the new Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, which would fly astronauts to the space station and return them to the moon by 2020. The outline does make room for an extra shuttle flight beyond the nine currently remaining on NASA's schedule, but only if it is deemed safe and can be flown before the end of 2010."

Great news for C++ programmers

[Stele]

Boost has a very good smart pointer implementation, not to mention an excellent threading and regex package. It's nice to see an organization like NASA supporting it.

Re:Great news for C++ programmers

[tomhudson]

Lousy for real programmers. The Boost STL isn't thread-safe. It's "thread-safe" for values of threads where they're all read-only. That is *so* last century.

Re:Good To See Grownups In Charge

[donscarletti]

Correction: 19 Billion dollars is only $60 from every American. I think proper entertainment of this sort is worth $x per capita (where X > 60). It was mainly just rhetorical anyway.

Re:Yeah, those damn dems

[bitrex]

The problem is that while America is now swinging more socialistic, we don't have the national unity to care about the fate of America any longer. Maybe we could try some kind of combination of nationalism and socialism? I've heard that this was tried before and that they had a pretty good rocket program.