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Old 27-March-2008, 09:58 PM
JonClarke JonClarke is offline
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Originally Posted by banquo's_bumble_puppy View Post
How would manned space exploration fare during a severe economic downturn? Say, something on the order of a deep recession or possibly an economic depression? Would ISS be slashed? Moon return flights? If taxpayers are out of work and not paying taxes, then what?
Following the break up of the USSR and the economic crisis of the mid 90'ss human space flight was one of the few areas of space activity the Russians did not drastically cut.

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