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• Commented on NASA's Inability To Speak With One Voice Online

  I don't have that much of a problem with multiple URLs directing to the same site - I run the website of a children's book series literary society that has four: .org, .com, .org, and .com. It makes sense if...

• Commented on Robbing Human Space Flight To Bail Out Webb

  So far as I'm concerned human spaceflight has been raiding science for the last 50 years. I don't have any problem with a little tit-for-tat....

• Commented on NASA is Sitting on Dawn Images Again (Update)

  In defense of the Dawn team, the PI pointed out in an interview that the spacecraft can either thrust or it can communicate with the Earth, but not both. Since it's been busy doing the former, it hasn't had the...

• Commented on Save Webb Campaign Begins (Update)

  This isn't true. Missions that are over budget sometimes keep other missions from getting started (exactly what's happening with JWST), but I don't know of any NASA mission that was on-time and within budget that was cancelled to pay for...

• Commented on Shuttle Missions That Might Have Happened

  The tricky part of a shuttle lunar mission would be getting back, since the shuttle heat shield tiles are only designed for the much slower reentry from Earth orbit. A couple of my colleagues were working on the Centaur when...

• Commented on Broken PAO at Wallops

  I remember a few years ago getting up early and getting a great view of a Wallops launch at sunrise from my bedroom window in Greenbelt, MD, over a hundred miles away. It's disappointing not to have an exact time,...

• Commented on Al Jazeera Video Reaction: Angry Arm Waving From The Far Right

  "Maybe, but was NEVER job #1!!! And that makes ALL the difference." Sure it was - NASA's #1 job for the first decade of its existence was to make us look better than the Russians. Pure foreign relations. It had...