D.B.'S POLITICIAN FATHER BETRAYS HIS FELLOW ASTRONAUTS AND HIS SON WITH PLANS TO SHUT DOWN NASA ON 'THE CAPE.'
Plot: (pasted from the official "The Cape" Web Site)
Although shy about it, D.B. beams with pride to be Bud's son, the son of
a real American hero. But D.B. and all of NASA are horrified to learn
that the Congressman came to the Cape to cut the fat out of NASA and
get rid of the manned flight program. Unable to communicate with his
hard-as-nails father, D.B. struggles to understand how his dad could
coolly ruin the program and his career without a second thought.
The real battle explodes between Bud and Bull. Bull is outraged at the
sweeping cuts that face NASA and he presents his own set of cutbacks
that can save the manned space program, but they fall on deaf and
stubborn ears. Ice-cold Bud and an enraged Bull publicly lock horns,
revealing why Bud is so dead set against a future for NASA.
Meanwhile, Reggie desperately hunts down any truth to the rumor that
he is scheduled to finally pilot a shuttle mission. And, Zeke, a Cape
Canaveral local, takes a city-slicker Peter on a nature survival
crash-course in the area's mosquito [no more text available]
[I wonder if they realized that they said 'Ice-cold Bud' in that previous paragraph! Isn't that subliminal advertising or something like that?!?]
Of course you'll have to watch it to see how it ends!!!
NASA's funding represents about one penny out of every dollar in the U.S. federal budget (down from a peak of four cents per dollar at the height of the Apollo program in the late 1960s). Diverting this money into social programs would provide a very minimal increase for those immediate funding needs, while eliminating resources for one of the few federal agencies devoted to the future. Such a move could forfeit new solutions to our social and economic problems in favor of the limited means that we already know.
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