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• Commented on Craig Steidle Will Head Commercial Spaceflight Federation (Update)

  No. If it had been the major announcement they would have hired a front admiral....

• Commented on Endeavour to LA, Atlantis to KSC, Discovery to DC, Enterprise to New York

  I think sending the Enterprise here to NYC is a mistake. NASA should send us all it's spare parts and let the local high school kids out at the Museum of Science, assemble as close to a shuttle as they...

• Commented on Bolden and Hall Clearly Disagree on HLVs

  Actually NASA could rebuild the Saturn V but that would also be nuts. You don't need HLV for lunar activities. Multiple EELV launches will do. You need a "Heavier" rocket to assemble a Nautilus in LEO but probably not in...

• Commented on Taurus XL Fairing Fails To Separate - Again - Another Satellite Lost

  They screwed to top on to tight. They just need to use more axle grease. They should hire the Space X guy with the hack saw....

• Commented on NASA's New Mantra is Too Long to Post on Twitter

  Space: the last frontier. This is our mission: the exploration of worlds, to see and recreate our own civilizations in the largest context, to boldly do the impossible, to one day go where no one now can go. In the...

• Commented on NASA FY 2012 Budget Information

  HMM!This looks like a negotiating budget, aimed more at the Senate than the House. Senator Nelson will have to choose between continuing HLV/Orion on his terms (but in a way that makes him look bad as he comes up for...

• Commented on Nautilus-X - Multi-mission Space Exploration Vehicle Concept (Updated: Video)

  This is what NASA might be capable of doing if it gets funding. The current congress seems much more concerned with using NASA to promote Jobs in the district, keeping the corporate contributions coming from big aerospace, cosmetic budget cutting,...

• Commented on James Hansen Continues To Have Special Privileges

  Keith: I personally believe that human activity has a significant impact on climate, but that is my personal belief. Science is disciplined skepticism. It worries me that climate "skeptics" are so ardently dismissed. We ought to be glad for the...

• Commented on The HLV Cost Information NASA Decided Not To Give To Congress

  Falcon X with two 5 seg. SRB's would be a really bad idea. Each one of the solids would cost several times the cost of the Falcon. Moreover, it would require a complete redesign of the stand alone Falcon X...

• Commented on The HLV Cost Information NASA Decided Not To Give To Congress

  What is this BS? Musk says he can build an HLV in 5 years for $2.5 billion, with an operational cost of $300 million per launch. He is willing to do that on a fixed cost contract where he eats...

• Commented on NASA to Congress: HLV Will Cost More, Take Longer, Look The Same

  The relevant number you need is that Elon Musk has offered to build the HLV for 2.5 billion dollars on a fixed price contract, in five years. If it costs more than that he said Space X would eat the...

• Commented on NASA to Congress: HLV Will Cost More, Take Longer, Look The Same

  Dennis: The Shuttle killed 14 people. You want to go for 21? It was a congressional rocket designed on the raged edge of possibility. The Air Force thought it might want to use it to launch there big recon satellites...

• Commented on Doug Cooke's Presentation to the NAC is Online

  You would want to make the P&W F1A. NASA studied the reintroduction of that engine three separate times and recommended that it be done each time only to have the project canceled. The last time in the mid 90's. The...

• Commented on NASA to Congress: HLV Will Cost More, Take Longer, Look The Same

  It's just not that simple. Just because we have a bunch of paid for parts doesn't mean it's much easier or cheaper to build a new launch vehicle out of those components. Many of these comonents would need extensive redesign...

• Commented on NASA to Congress: HLV Will Cost More, Take Longer, Look The Same

  Keith: You can't actually think this is NASA plan for an HLV. This is obviously NASA/the administrations plan to get the HLV canceled. Space X' plan for an HLV is obviously the way to go in the event an HLV...

• Commented on Keep This In Mind When Ralph Hall Talks About Education and Competitiveness Priorities

  Partisan politics. None dare call it reason! God help us, Congress is to busy with other things than the well being of America' space development or anything else the country needs. It's all about getting reelected don't you know. Got...

• Commented on Reaction To SpaceX Mission Success

  Yes. I fear Elon did his cause no good. Dragon is in general (though not in all respects) superior to Orion. BUT YOU DON'T SAY SO IN PUBLIC! Not when the result is to put a fire under your competition...

• Commented on Falcon 9 Static Fire Test Successful

  Thank God for Crazy Glue, Philips head screw drivers, and those plug and play Merlin 1 rocket engines. Why don't they do that with the shuttle? Hydrogen leak? Doesn’t anyone at NASA chew bubble gum anymore?...

• Commented on NASA's Astrobiology News: Arsenic Biochemistry Anyone? (Update)

  So basically this is about Arsenic and old lice???...

• Commented on Upcoming Astrobiolgy Announcement

  Quite possibly it refers to the new finding that Earth' water originated from the rocks on Earth and was not delivered by comets# Leaving it more likely that water is common on rocky planets elsewhere# Here is the link to...

• Commented on Using Existing Rockets for Future Human Exploration

  One more desperate effort by a cost-plus contractor to stay on the government payroll. End the Orion and the Congressional Camel HLV and then maybe we can afford to move ahead with a rationalized government program adjunctive to our private...

• Commented on ATK's Congressional Delegation Chats with Bolden and Garver

  Where is the Debt Commission when you need them? They could have recommended cutting the redundant and over priced Orion, and the HLV designed by the congressional gravy train committee. Instead they cut the one meaningful cost containment element of...

• Commented on Replacing Ares V

  I agree. That is why I used the words recoverable and refurbishable rather than reusable. Reusable is not cost effective. What you want is the ability to recover the first stage engines and part them out for reuse of components....

• Commented on Replacing Ares V

  I think you have put your finger on one of the major components of the fight over the direction of NASA. A lot of us are getting older and we thought we were going to live to see a lot...

• Commented on Replacing Ares V

  Even if there were money for more shuttle flights, there are no external tanks other than the one light weight/heavy weight, moreover the SME's are no longer in production.Much of the support facilities and personnel have already been cut. For...

• Commented on Replacing Ares V

  I actually see these trade studies and request for additional time to complete the mandated review of HLV as a stall. NASA knows quite well what the HLV options are and who has what to offer. NASA wants to see...

• Commented on Replacing Ares V

  I think that these trade studies are as far as NASA could go and still be within there congressional mandate. Congress clearly was not interested in any revolution of any kind. They intend to keep the gravy train going and...

• Commented on Republican Victory = No STS-135?

  Yipppyyyy tea party! Take that money and use it to transition the shuttle workers and contractors to jobs that need them and educate a new generation of aerospace workers for commercial space. We need every science and math teacher we...

• Commented on Oh My - Yet Another NASA Photoshop Coverup

  No wonder he doesn't have a birth certificate!...

• Commented on Wayne Hale: OMB Strikes Again

  90% of what you wrote is perfectly agreeable . What I take exception to is the anti HLV comments. It’s not that you don’t have a point, but is your apparent assumption that your multi launch EELV with in space...