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AT: CCrewCommercial crew—is being cut Clark 4/23 (Stephen, Spaceflight Now, “Congress wary of fully funding commercial crew”, http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1204/24commercialcrew/) Senate and House budget bills would cut up to 40 percent from NASA's requested budget to pay for new commercial spacecraft to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station and end U.S. reliance on Russia for crew transportation. The Senate's appropriations subcommittee for NASA marked up a spending plan with $525 million allocated for commercial crew. The House's budget calls for the program to receive $500 million in fiscal year 2013, which begins Oct. 1. Dev more tech solves Space X vehicles solve. USA Today 4/26 (“SpaceX’s mission: Pick up where NASA left off”, http://tucsoncitizen.com/usa-today-news/2012/04/26/spacexs-mission-pick-up-where-nasa-left-off/) Less than four years ago, SpaceX had yet to launch a rocket successfully. Today, the company is on the verge of a historic attempt to send the first private spacecraft to the International Space Station. SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s goals to dramatically lower launch costs and eventually send people to Mars remain ambitious for a company that has reached orbit only four times — the last time nearly 17 months ago. But many believe a successful launch from Cape Canaveral, targeted now for May 7, and docking at the ISS would represent a paradigm shift in spaceflight operations and validate Musk’s conviction that a small, entrepreneurial company could upset the status quo. “They’re coming in and saying we can do this better, we can do this cheaper, and we’re going to make a go of it,” said Jim Muncy, a space-policy analyst whose clients include SpaceX. “It is absolutely the quintessential American business story.” Riding on Musk’s vision Musk’s wealth, vision and partnership with NASA have propelled SpaceX’s rise, from its birth in 2003 through a series of failed launches. He started the company after making millions from the 2002 sale of the Internet payment service PayPal, which he co-founded. Interested in flying a science experiment to Mars, Musk explored buying U.S. and Russian rockets but was shocked at the prices. “If you look at the space industry, the one constant over the last 50 years is the cost of launch — it hasn’t changed,” said Chris Quilty, an equity analyst at Raymond James in St. Petersburg, Fla., citing a cost of about $10,000 to launch 1 kilogram to orbit. Musk, 31 at the time, decided he could do better, and committed $100 million of his fortune to the cause. Starting from scratch, Musk sought to mass-produce rockets using more modern technology and relatively simple, modular designs. The company’s small Falcon 1 rocket would test the liquid-fueled engines that would power both stages of a larger Falcon 9 rocket. Several Falcon 9 boosters could be grouped to create a heavy-lift rocket. “It was a fresh, new, bold approach to a traditional, archaic aerospace industry,” said Space Florida President Frank DiBello, who then led a space venture capital firm. Visitors to SpaceX’s Hawthorne, Calif., headquarters in a former Boeing 747 fuselage factory see Silicon Valley culture being applied to spaceflight. Musk occupies a cubicle on the factory floor. Vehicle designers and builders work side by side, in a structure less hierarchical than at traditional aerospace contractors like the Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. And the company’s workforce is noted for the large number of 20-somethings in its engineering corps. There’s no bigger difference than Musk himself, whose business track record and outsize personality lend the company a swagger unusual in the industry. In addition to being CEO, he takes pride in being “chief designer” of SpaceX’s vehicles, which he says is no vanity title. “There’s nobody that knows more about the rocket than I do,” he said. Credit to NASA Musk credits NASA with helping SpaceX get where it is today. The space agency in 2006 selected SpaceX as one of two partners to develop commercial cargo resupply services to the station and has paid SpaceX $381 million to date to advance its cargo capability, with another $15 million due if this month’s planned flight is a success. At the end of 2008, not long after SpaceX’s first successful Falcon 1 launch, NASA awarded the company a $1.6 billion contract to haul cargo to the space station, providing the relatively new company an anchor customer for years. A successful Dragon visit to the space station would set the stage for SpaceX to start executing its $1.6 billion resupply contract. But many challenges remain for the company to achieve its longer-term ambitions. SpaceX’s ability to sustain lower costs depends on a high volume of launches that may not materialize. Quarantines solve disease – Empirically proven Altman, et. al. 5 [Lawrence, reporter for The New York Times, Jeff Bailey, reporter for the New York Times in Chicago, "CDC Proposes New RUles in Effort to Prevent Disease Outbreak", section A; column 1, National Desk, p. 22 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9802E7DF1631F930A15752C1A9639C8B63] Federal officials yesterday proposed the first significant changes in quarantine rules in 25 years in an effort to broaden the definition of reportable illnesses, to centralize their reporting to the federal government and to require the airline and shipping industries to keep passenger manifests electronically for 60 days. The proposals would also clarify the appeals process for people subjected to quarantines to allow for administrative due process and give health officials explicit authority to offer vaccination, drugs and other appropriate means of prevention on a voluntary basis to those in quarantine. The proposals could cost the beleaguered airline industry hundreds of millions of dollars, officials of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The officials are inviting public comment on the proposals, which are to be published in the Federal Register on Nov. 30, they told reporters in a telephone news conference. The proposals are part of a broader Bush administration plan to improve the response to current and potential communicable disease threats that may arise anywhere in the world. If adopted, the new regulations ''will allow the C.D.C. to move more swiftly'' when it needs to control outbreaks, said Dr. Martin Cetron, who directs the agency's division of global migration and quarantine. The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 underscored how fast a disease could spread through the world and the need to modernize and strengthen quarantine measures by pointing out gaps in health workers' ability to respond quickly and effectively, Dr. Cetron said. As the C.D.C. joined with cooperative airlines to meet flights and later collect information about passengers who had contact with others who developed SARS, the epidemiologists had to compile and process by hand data collected from flight manifests, customs declarations and other sources. But manifests contained only the name and seat number; customs declarations were illegible, and when readable, the names did not match those on the manifests. 'The time required to track passengers was routinely longer than the incubation period,'' which was two to 10 days for SARS, Dr. Cetron said. ''That was really quite shocking,'' Dr. Cetron said. One proposed change would require airline and ship manifests to be kept electronically for 60 days and made available to the C.D.C. within 12 hours when ill passengers arrive on international and domestic flights. The proposed changes include provisions for maintaining confidentiality and privacy of health information. The outbreak of SARS was stopped in part because of quarantines imposed in some affected countries. Quarantine restricts the movement of a healthy person exposed to someone who has a communicable disease. The quarantine period is determined by the usual length of time that passes from exposure to an infectious agent to the onset of illness. An executive order of the president limits quarantine to nine diseases: cholera, diphtheria, infectious tuberculosis, plague, smallpox, yellow fever, viral hemorrhagic fevers like Ebola, SARS and influenza caused by new strains that could cause a pandemic. 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