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Congress: Don't tell NASA what to do

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http://www.itwire.com – American space historian Andrew Chaikin recently said that the U.S. Congress should not be designing rockets, but should just let NASA do it. In other words, who has the better rocket scientists? NASA or Congress? (IT news)

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