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

  Hold on there a minute. An HLV at 80 ton payload and a flight rate of twice per year is about the same launch cost per ton as EELV (a little more than Atlas 551 and a little less than...

• Commented on Bill Nye Dumps on Old Astronauts

  I wonder if he would like "science guys of a certain mental capacity."...

• Commented on Nelson & Hutchison Have a "Major Breakthrough" to Announce

  Congratulations to the Direct Team. They are going to build your rocket!! Start the parties now!!...

• Commented on Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicle Idea Is Still Alive

  Yea, tell that to von Braun who cobbled together a Redstone and other solids and put our first satellite in orbit vs. the "clean sheet" Vanguard that blew up on the pad....

• Commented on Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicle Idea Is Still Alive

  SD-HLV makes a lot of sense - whether it is sidemount or inline. Hopefully, a Congressional compromise will give the go ahead to make this happen....

• Commented on Falcon 9 Nails Orbit - First Stage Slams Hard into Atlantic

  "SpaceX failure on first launch!! - Falcon 9 first stage destroyed upon impact with ocean!! News at 11 !!"...

• Commented on Mike Griffin, Master Manipulator

  "This synchs with the widely-held suspicon that not only did Griffin help write Neil Armstrong's prepared comments...." So when are suspicions proof? Astronaut Neil Armstrong is an American Hero - an engineer, test pilot and professor. Do you really think...

• Commented on What Happened to "Apollo on Steroids", Mike?

  While I don't agree with the path chosen by Griffin for carrying out the Vision for Space Exploration, the path chosen by Obama to upset the cart and seek out "game changing technologies" is inherently high risk technically. Obama's "burn...

• Commented on Bolden Update Today

  Probably Bolden will well up some tears (again) and indicates he feels our pain. Thanks....