18.04.2010 11:51 - NASA : The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell and Eugene Cernan have written a stiff letter to Obama due to his cancellation of the follow-up ship to the Shuttle. The US Government, it seems, thinks that they can save money by cancelling a programme which has already cost them an enormous amount, and hitch-hiking with the Russians in a 40 year-old spaceship. Obama's so serious he's ordered copies of "The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy" so that NASA can train up their astronauts with it.
