Jimmy

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• Commented on Another Ignorant Columnist

  Although of course, a lot of the Krauthammer verbiage is just presidential politics, it is interesting to see how many people are now up in arms that: (1) Shuttle is ending - sorry, that decision was made years ago -...

• Commented on Where Next?

  Sorry, akear, "Obama cancels the shuttle without any plan and the gap now looks to be ten years." Obama did not cancel Shuttle. Shuttle was cancelled 6 years ago upon ISS Assembly Complete. Constellation and Orion were supposed to have...

• Commented on The Future vs. the Past

  Excellent article by Mr. Strickland and exactly the right perspective if the nation's space program is going to move forward, and if NASA is going to be successful. As far as Adm Steidle's intent to get rid of everyone at...

• Commented on Putting the "Path" into Flexible Path

  I think Rand Simberg's Popular Mechanics piece is exactly right. I don't look at the Obama/Bolden proposal as gutting anything. NASA is getting more funding, not less. What NASA does with the funding is yet to be seen. Constellation was...

• Commented on Restless in Huntsville, Houston, and on the Hill

  Sorry, but the Constellation Program as it was being run did itself in. Human space flight as we have known it, including Shuttle and Constellation, were done in by the incompetence of NASA management over the last 5-6 years. The...

• Commented on Space Policy: Lack of Details and Lots of Differing Opinions

  Less than truthful statements ? : "Constellation had problems (especially Aries I), but there was a heck of a lot more there than the vapourware/dreamware we're currently being peddled." "Go to nasa.gov and look up Contellation and Orion and show...

• Commented on Where Next?

  You might be right and I might be wrong. Tell us which new technologies Orion was developing ? NASA (in conjunction with the military) was the organization to first develop vehicles that could travel at Mach 1, 2, 3, 4,...

• Commented on Where Next?

  In general I agree with Dr. Spudis' comments, but there are a few things he left out. In the Vision, the Shuttle was supposed to have been shut down once ISS assembly was completed, about 2010. What many, including Dr....

• Commented on Today's Space Policy Reactions

  First, I stated 'I believe'. My belief is based on the last 3 decades of my work in/with NASA and NASA contractors. I know that the ability to do the work successfully, expediently and inexpensively is there. Second, if you...

• Commented on Making NASA "Open"

  I think there are already much of the makings of such a tool already established in the blogs of such websites as NASAWatch, Space Politics, Pal Spudis' Once and Future Moon, and maybe one or two others. I do not...

• Commented on Today's Space Policy Reactions

  Shuttle's end has been coming for several years. It was possible for some of that time to have extended missions or to have decided on an indefinite continuation, but it is no longer possible without developing a truly Shuttle-derived heavy...

• Commented on Buzz Aldrin Thanks President Obama

  SOME OF MY FAVORITE POSTS FROM THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS: The greatest irony here is that The Administration is doing precisely what the VSE was supposed to do. Commercialize space flight. I say, give it a shot, it's been...