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Apr. 18, 2012 9:00pm Liz Klimas

National Planetary Exploration Car Wash and Bake Sale to Raise Funds and Awareness About NASAs Budget Crisis Some are upset at the budget cuts NASA has experienced in recent years, thinking it will cause the United States to fall behind in space exploration. In fact, recent reports state China has for the first time surpassed the U.S. in number of rockets launched into orbit within a year as the country has been amping up its space efforts.

What’s a space lover to do besides sit around and bemoan the smaller budget the agency has to work with? How else do people raise money? Bake sales and car washes.

The Southwest Research Institute Planetary Science Directorate is organizing the first National Planetary Exploration Car Wash and Bake Sale. What exactly is this? Here’s the low-down from the event’s website:

When: Saturday, June 9th 2012

Where: Across the Nation!

Who: You! Join us and make Congress and the American public aware of the planetary cuts and the damage they are doing!

National Planetary Exploration Car Wash and Bake Sale to Raise Funds and Awareness About NASAs Budget Crisis

(Photo: National Planetary Exploration Car Wash and Bake Sale)

So far, several universities, such as CalTech, UCLA, Notre Dame and others, have signed up to host their own subsidiary bake sales and car washes.

While the goal of the event is to raise funds for “planetary research and exploratory institutions,” which will be given with letters to the House or Senate Appropriations Committee, the primary objective is really to gain media attention to promote awareness about the “planetary budget crisis.”

According to the event timeline, the project officially kicked off earlier this month with its website launching on Monday. From here teams are working to employ social and traditional media to spread the word as they prepare for the main festivities in June.

A cookbook will also go on sale April 30 to raise funds for the cause.

[H/T Gizmodo]

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Flyingfish
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 7:40am
Just imagin what our space program would look like if we had spent the various stimulus bills from Bush and Obama on NASA instead of dumping it down the politcal rat hole.

Nasa annual budget $18 billion.
Combined Stimulus bills $945 BILLION

Let’s not for get the other $5 TRILLION ($5,000 billion) dollars in deficit spending by Obama.

That’s 333 times NASA’s annual budget. For that money we could have built MULTIPLE moon bases and Mars bases, a Lagrange point space station, a vastly expanded international space station, and asteroid belt mining operations combined that would have completely transformed our economy and our lives.

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- teddrunk
  Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:38am
  Agreed about the stimulus and throwing money down a rat hole. But if NASA ever had a real function, it ended decades ago. Not one dime more to NASA for it’s phony “global warming” scientific rip off.
  
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- JRook
  Posted on April 19, 2012 at 10:43am
  Ah yes it is always convenient to identify and object to the parts of the federal budget one doesn’t like. How about the $ trillions on useless wars going back to Vietnam. And the absurd military spending to protect us from made up threats like communist Russia and now the Arab hoards. NASA has, does and will continue to provide valuable scientific information and til now command of space for the US. No doubt some political cronies will convince congress to privatize NASA so wealthy investors can make 20% off the top from our tax dollars. Not that numerous companies haven’t already made ridiculous amounts of money and profit from overcharging NASA on everything including pencils.
  
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lukerw
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 7:21am
Dear NASA: If you do not have a Space Shuttle… you are as useless as…

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possom
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 3:10am
When’s the garage sale?

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lylejk
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:39am
we spend 100s of millions if not billions on outfits like Soylendra yet we can’t spend to maintain our Space dominance/presence just erks me to no end. Now we have countries like China and Russia furthering the research into manned exploration and we have to wait and hope way underfunded civilian outfits can take over. I do have high hopes, but I don’t really see any human exploration from the private sector for at least another decade if ever. Now the remnants of the mission changed NASA (remember BO wants NASA to figure out how to uplift the muslims) have to do cupcake sales and car washes to pay the bills. Crazy is an understatement. Just wanted to rant

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IDONTTHINKSO
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:47pm
They had to give up the space program; it will be a long long time before we get out in space on algae or wind power! And solar panels probably won’t work on the dark side of the moon! The current administration wastes more money in cover ups and hookers, than it would to keep NASA running for the next ten years! One great moment in my child hood was seeing the moon landing on tv (in b&w) it was awesome! I remember, my crazy brother in law yelled “run you little green bas*****”. I hope no one took that as a racist comment!

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- starman70
  Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:35am
  If some of the money spent on Odimwit and Moochelle’s extrevagant vacations were given to NASA they might atill be able to maintain a space program.
  
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- Calm Voice of Reason
  Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:49am
  The “dark side” of the moon receives just as much sunlight as any other side of the moon.
  
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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:48pm
  @starman70
  
  Dubya had more than twice the vacation days as Obama at his point in his presidency. I posted the stats on another story recently, and I’m not looking up the numbers again. Oh, and is “Moochelle” some kind of fat joke? If it is, allow me to say, good sir, that you’re mother is so fat, when she heard it was chilly outside, she ran to the kitchen to grab a bowl.
  
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- cemerius
  Posted on April 19, 2012 at 2:06pm
  Vance, before you quote arbitrary “vacation days” rather than “quantity” why don’t you look at “quality” and overall costs to us taxpayers!! Got to Camp David or your personally owned ranch DOES NOT put an extravegant burden on the tax payers!! Oh yeah remeber the time when Obama’s dog went on it’s own flight too?
  
  For your ONE vote for Obama I am bringing millions against him!
  
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blackyb
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:39pm
Hey idiots: There are people starving in your towns. How about a few fishes?

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trueamerican40
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:38pm
Dims always accuse christian conservatives of not being scientific minded. It’s the dims that have backpedaled on science. Hypocrites. Obamus Defeatus needs our money for other pork-fat projects for example—society for gay cowboy poetry. ****

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- HellPhish89
  Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:02am
  to be fair.. Ike started it, Kennedy gave us the mission to get to the moon, LBJ continued it, then Nixon got us there then said meh, dont need that **** anymore and trashed apollo. thats kept us from any further expansion into space more than anything. look up the rockets slated for after apollo… they wouldve gotten to mars and god only knows how far. weve been stuck on or near earth since nixon because neither democrat or republican has had the balls to go further.
  
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TelepromoterNChief
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:06pm
Hey everybody!
NASA doesn’t do cool stuff anymore like putting things and people in space , but they take neat pictures of the stars and make spectacular cupcakes.

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- scuba13
  Posted on April 18, 2012 at 11:45pm
  Also, that Muslim outreach is going great.
  
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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on April 19, 2012 at 1:00pm
  @TelepromoterNChief
  
  Nice name. Maybe I’ll change my name to Failed-WritesStuffOnHerHands-Governor. Anyhow, I see space exploration as an important issue. Someday, sooner or later, the human race is going to have to leave this planet. Even if global warming, a nuclear war, an asteroid or comet strike, a supervolcano eruption, etc. don’t make the Earth uninhabitable, someday our Sun is going to die, and we will need to either scram or die with it. We can’t just sit around waiting for Jeebus to save us.
  
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South Philly Boy
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:48pm
Now I wonder of the Cup Cake Police will shut them down like they do to little Kids?

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- Plan B
  Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:38am
  That’s funny!
  
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South Philly Boy
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:45pm
Wow… They’re going to have to Sell ALOT of Cup Cakes

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Stoic one
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:09pm
Let’s shut down All non-constitutional agencies and cut the debt along with taxes across the board.

As much as I love science N>A>S>A> has to go as well.

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- THXll38
  Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:26pm
  I agree! Unfortunately the masses do not hence why Romney will be the front man fro Pres. Whats that old saying . . . oh, the masses are asses.
  
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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:55pm
  “cut the debt along with taxes”
  
  Sorry, can’t do both outside of the fantasy world Cons have created in their heads.
  
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THXll38
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:54pm
That’s the way it should be. NASA is unconstitutional just as much as many of the other alphabet agencies.

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- cuinsong
  Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:05pm
  you have no clue have you?
  
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- MrObvious
  Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:09pm
  NASA has public, private and military functions.
  It’s core mission, space exploration, is constitutional – to some extent (IE national defense).
  It’s propaganda programs serve no useful function – and do not deserve public funding.
  Like the rest of our government, it’s gotten bloated.
  NASA’s budget, such as it is, should be more directed at space, and less at politics.
  
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- THXll38
  Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:10pm
  Well prove to me how NASA can be federally funded via the Constitution and I will shut up. Let me guess . . . just another tool neocon that picks and chooses the Constitution just like a modern day liberal.
  
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- THXll38
  Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:24pm
  MrObvious -
  
  Star Wars, maybe by an extreme far stretch can be Constitutional, but that has ended quite some time ago.
  
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- Inlightofthings
  Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:30pm
  THX:
  Is the DOD constitutionally funded?….then Shut up.
  
  Satellites….Targeting….Strategic defense…intelligence…counter-intelligence….SDI…..
  
  Now name the country we will eventually need to buy a seat on a rocket to launch a satellite….now shut up…
  
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- Calm Voice of Reason
  Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:53am
  You would have a hard time making the argument that the Founding Father who commissioned and funded Lewis and Clark would balk at the space program.
  
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Salamander
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:45pm
Just think how much more they could make selling cocaine, or crack or marijuana on the street corners, or pimping out some nice, Colombian girls to our federal agents! Hey, $800 a pop is a lot faster than 50-cent cupcakes!

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Plan B
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:41pm
Cut NASA and use the money to fund big brother. You can’t make this stuff up:

A bill already passed by the Senate and set to be rubber stamped by the House would make it mandatory for all new cars in the United States to be fitted with black box data recorders from 2015 onwards.

http://www.infowars.com/mandatory-big-brother-black-boxes-in-all-new-cars-from-2015/

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- Stoic one
  Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:07pm
  Then I will have nothing newer than 2014 for the rest of my life.
  
  AND NO ONSTAR EITHER (or equivalent)
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:41pm
Ridiculous. If they are concerned about the future of NASA, then they should be working to fire obama. After obama is kicked to the curb, NASA must be immediately de-funded, completely gutted and sterilized (de-liberalized and de-muslimized) and rebuilt from the ground up with a realistic budget and strict oversight.

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- THXll38
  Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:03pm
  Where in the Constitution does it allow for that kind of federal spending?
  
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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:53pm
  @Tri-ox
  
  Yeah, get rid of those “scientists” and replace them with good Christians who know that space exploration is for one thing only, trying to find a wormhole to Heaven!
  
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Salamander
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:39pm
Wow, I never thought of launching a Space Shuttle in terms of how many car washes or cookies it would take! Maybe they should open a Lemonade stand, or franchise one from Suzy!

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BlackCrow
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:29pm
Pathetic and insane!

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- randy
  Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:56pm
  Oh,, so NASA can have a bake sale, but school children can’t?
  This administration is pathetic!
  
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Git-R-Done
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:24pm
Why aren’t the welfare bums doing bake sales and car washes?

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- Salamander
  Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:43pm
  They ARE! Just because they USED TO BE astronauts and rocket scientists, doesn’t mean they can’t be welfare bums under our government ‘safety net’! I’m surprised how much they can spend on solar fantasies, tilting at windmills, ‘investing’ in GM (Government Motors) to rescue all those high-paying union jobs (and save Citroen, too), but nary a cent for NASA! I think we have a priorities problem in The White House!
  
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- Plan B
  Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:52pm
  @Salamander
  
  Could not have said it better myself.
  
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youdidthis
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:24pm
Mandatory ‘Big Brother’ Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015
A bill already passed by the Senate and set to be rubber stamped by the House would make it mandatory for all new cars in the United States to be fitted with black box data recorders from 2015 onwards.

Section 31406 of Senate Bill 1813 (known as MAP-21), calls for “Mandatory Event Data Recorders” to be installed in all new automobiles and legislates for civil penalties to be imposed against individuals for failing to do so.
http://www.infowars.com/mandatory-big-brother-black-boxes-in-all-new-cars-from-2015/

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- Salamander
  Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:47pm
  What a GREAT IDEA! Now, you can get all your speeding tickets with every oil change! And, the RADAR police can support our doughnut shops, while scarfing up every last cent for our local community speed traps!
  
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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on April 19, 2012 at 12:51pm
  @youdidthis
  
  Remember when Dubya allowed warrantless wiretaps, and all of you Cons were all for it, saying that if someone didn’t have something to hide they shouldn’t worry about it? Remember that?
  
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youdidthis
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:22pm
2 Years After the BP Oil Spill, Is the Gulf Ecosystem Collapsing?
http://www.infowars.com/2-years-after-the-bp-oil-spill-is-the-gulf-ecosystem-collapsing/

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- sawbuck
  Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:27pm
  Thanks for the link youdidthis…
  
  This headline at the bottom of story to your link stood
  out to me and was shocking as well..
  
  “U.S. military purchases unwanted Gulf seafood to feed troops”..
  
  I wonder where else they are sending the seafood….?
  
  It Just sicken me watch this country going down
  The drain.
  
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- disenlightened
  Posted on April 19, 2012 at 8:33am
  @YOUDIDTHIS
  Notice the links offering evidence – all MSNBC, Mother Jones and a few NYT articles thrown in. A joke.
  
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Mr.Fitnah
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:15pm
Call Homeland this is an outrage.

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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:15pm
At the DoD, we have been joking about bake sales to buy spare parts for years, I never would have thought NASA would beat us to it. Dang, how many cupcakes does it take to get to the Moon?

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- mrsmileyface
  Posted on April 18, 2012 at 10:33pm
  Well if they are GSA cupcakes then I would say it would only take a bakers dozen to get to the moon.
  
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Plan B
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:11pm
Sad state of affairs for this nation. But this is a brilliant way togain media attention to promote awareness about the “planetary budget crisis.”

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lukerw
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:05pm
A NASA car wash… will make you buggy go faster :) ObamaVille!

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JACKTHETOAD
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:03pm
What, no prayer sessions at local mosques?

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