A rover that was launched in 1997 has showed promise this week. NASA released a picture of Saturn as taken on scene by the Cassini Orbiter. This story was located on Yahoo News.
After the close of the shuttle program and the cancellation of the next program it is nice to see that NASA is receiving good information from some of its investments. In 1997 a 3.26 Billion Dollar piece of machinery that was sent on a seven year trip to Saturn. This week NASA released a photo of the planet and its rings on the dark side with the sun shining behind it. It is an awesome looking photo.
I have always been an avid fan of NASA. From the space race to the construction of the space station and the delivery of the Hubble Telescope. NASA has been furthering the human knowledge of space and our neighbors. With the U.S. budget problems NASA's funding has been cut, with the ending of the shuttle program, Jobs with NASA have been cut. I reacted to the story the way I did because as I was always a fan of NASA, and with the government calming that they need to create jobs, then turn around and cut jobs with a government program that is obtaining information to us just irritates me. Then to get the information that something that started over fourteen years ago is still sending information out, brings a small since of satisfaction but also sadness that for a while the U.S. is loosing the gain on information it was learning and the people it was employed.
If you want to look at the photo that Cassini took look here.
As always this is just my opinion and this is a post for my English course.
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