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• Commented on Year Ender From Charlie Bolden

  Don't see Charlie crying over the death of United Space Alliance. Surprised no articles about Boeing and Lockheed Martin dissolving USA....

• Commented on Large NASA Programs: Located In Florida = "Jobs", Out of State = "Boondoggle, Pork"

  Space X wasn't ready to fly their original December launch date long before the Soyuz problems. It wasn't only their software but the readiness of the rest of their ops products that wasn't ready to support approach and docking. Luckily...

• Commented on Commercial Crew Funding at a Critical Juncture

  Why do these companies need any governement funding at all? If there truly is a commercial market where these guys could make money then the venture capitalists would be banging on their doors to invest. The fact that they aren't...

• Commented on NASA Approves SpaceX Launch Abort PDR

  Space X has a long ways to go. Most of my NASA friends who are working with them on their first mission to ISS are taking bets on whether they can pull it off due to their inexperience and disorganization....

• Commented on Commercial Crew Hearing This Morning

  Have you ever heard of the government actually recovering their money or enforcing a warranty. After 25 years of government service I have never seen the government actually use or enforce any of these so called protections....

• Commented on NASA's Perception of Size and Commerce

  Everyone loves to complain about the FAR but the exist for a reason and not to protect civil servant jobs. FARs evolved mainly to ensure that any acquisition is executed fairly and hopefully without undo influence or outright corruption by...

• Commented on NASA Astronaut Andy Thomas is Still Bashing China On The Job

  Have you checked with Mr. Thomas to determine if your interpretation of the representation is correct and the intended message that he wished to communicate? Your previous post indicated that no one had commented regarding the slide. Does that mean...

• Commented on IG Asked To Do Investigation on Political Bias Inside NASA

  As someone who works at NASA I think you are completly reading the quote "It's above my paygrade" wrong. It is not that we are all hoping for a new president who will majically send us billions of dollars that...

• Commented on Bolden is "Rooting" For Chinese Success in Space

  Wow. Your last paragraph is right out of communist central econcomic planning. Why would you trust some "think tank" to determine how to spend tax money? Like the think tank chosen wouldn't be to validate the desire by some government...

• Commented on NASA Debunks Russian Claims About SpaceX Dragon Mission

  This is the excuse for slipping the next Dragon flight so the Space X still gets their milestone payment despite the fact that they aren't ready to fly....

• Commented on Commercial Crew Draft RFP & CCDEV2 Optional Milestones Released

  Space X wasn't going to make their November launch milestone for the combined demo missions. Instead NASA will come up with some excuse to slip the flight to the right to give them more time to get ready and because...

• Commented on Hutchison/Nelson: Undermining America's Manned Space Program

  The problem with all your scenarios is that you define the objective as something that government has to do. Once you do that then everything goes down huill from there. Until there is a logical,economic reason for private citzens to...

• Commented on NRC Report on NASA's Astronaut Corps Released

  High performance jet trainiers were needed for military ilots to maintain their proficiency flying high performance jets ( a critical skill set for a military pilot) as well as the basic flying skill set for landing Shuttles. Cessna 172 won't...

• Commented on NASA's Internal SLS Cost Scenarios (Full Document)

  Gemini was also a much simopler vehicle with rudimentary avionics systems. All aerospace vehicles take longer to develop nowadays. !0 years is not an unreasonable deveopment program timeframe from initial concept development to IOC, even for something simplier like a...

• Commented on First Orion To Fly In Space Under Construction

  One thing everyone forgots in the Orion vs Dragon comparison is the difference in the avionics and flight software. Those are significantly more complex and need to be more capable for a BEO mission then a two day jaunt to...

• Commented on Restoring Confidence in Soyuz

  I wouldn't count on Space X saving the day. My co-workers that are working the November mission have said that there is too much open work and their is no way that Space X can make that launch date. The...

• Commented on More Layoffs

  You are assuming that the new space companies are willing to go out and hire people who used to work for NASA contractors. Most aren't interested and in fact consider it negative and avoid hiring them like the plague. Except...

• Commented on Last Minute Announcement: NASA Commercial Crew Program Forum

  But that won't make the Democratic Colorado Congresman and Senators very happy. It was their idea to make Orion an ISS lifeboat....

• Commented on Marching Armies Vs Sprinting Platoons

  Don't know what part of NASA you work in but my job has changed dramatically over the last 12 years. Our processes are being automated, everyone is expected to do more, everything is focused on doing the mission and doing...

• Commented on Marching Armies Vs Sprinting Platoons

  Once again the marching armies lie from the commercial fan boys. ISS is 2 years into a 3 year program to reduce flight control personnel (and cost) by 30%. Orion was going to be operated by a workforce half the...

• Commented on House Budget Report Language Authorizes RIFs

  Hope this passes. NASA CS jobs should be on the chopping block just like the contractors. NASA ought to be hanging on to the best no matter the color of their NASA badge....

• Commented on The NPOESS "Headache" Just Got Worse

  I"ll take DOD procurement specialists over NASA any day. DOD does enough procurements that they are actually experienced and professional. Instead of bringing up an old issue from 30 years ago look at their current performance. Out of 95 major...

• Commented on So ... Where Are those Cool Soyuz Fly Around Pix? (Update)

  You are correct. The Russians bogarted the cards and claimed that the photos were theirs because they were taken from the Soyuz and now we are having to negotiate with them to get them back (after they release them first...

• Commented on Adios, Outpost

  Great comments and no real disagreement. I did support some of the Orion software development work and their definitly was an awareness of the need to do things like fault detection and recovery differently with an emphasis on eliminating or...

• Commented on Adios, Outpost

  letsroll - I am not defending, just hate seeing complaining with no solutions and as I expected, that's what I got. At least eep and Warp offered up some ideas on a different way of doing things. Also I don't...

• Commented on Bigelow Begins Human Rating Life Support System

  I doubt very much that Mr. Bigelow's stations have anywhere near the capability that ISS does. Before we start comparing costs you need to look at what capabilities you are getting for that cost....

• Commented on Bigelow Begins Human Rating Life Support System

  NASA is not the regulatory agency for commercial space flight. The FAA is. Any human rating standards NASA issues is for vehicles or services that NASA intends to purchase and as such NASA should be the one intepretating them. Currently...

• Commented on Adios, Outpost

  Complaining about FCR-1 is easy. What would you propose that would have meet the same budget and schedule constraints that FCR-1 was built under? I find it a much better place to work then the BFCR....

• Commented on Another Stealth Bolden TV Appearance

  Typical upper managment meaningless drivel. I especially like the line about 'striving to ensure that our skilled workforce has many opportunities to contribute to the future goals of NASA'. Either he only meant the Civil Service workforce or his definition...

• Commented on Wayne Hale: OMB Strikes Again

  I would love to see ISS became less dependent on ground support as well but the hardware and software has so many "features" (over 500 Station Program Notes documenting software not meeting requirements and requiring operator workarounds)that there is no...