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• Commented on MSL Is On Its Way To Mars

  the 2 year slip was on the payload. Mars has a funny way of being accessible in odd years, but Atlas V would have flown it either time on the exact launch time advertised weather permitting. SpaceX's launcher has yet...

• Commented on MSL Is On Its Way To Mars

  just like always Atlas/NASA advertised a launch date for months, heck years, slipped a day due to a space craft issue then went like clock work as soon as the window opened this morning, as usual. for all you Elon...

• Commented on SpaceX Unveils Fully Reusable Falcon 9 Plans

  going orbital means going really fast. coming home means exchanging all that speed for heat. I really enjoy all the space X cheerleaders on here. go elon! go space x! where ever you go and whatever you say even if...

• Commented on Congress Asks GAO to Study SLS Contracting Practices

  how much has been spent on a sole source J2X??? it doesn't matter if they hand out 1-2 million to space x, aerojet and pick another supplier (if they do)over a 2 year paid proposal effort. there is no way,...

• Commented on Congress Asks GAO to Study SLS Contracting Practices

  this architecture was selected to continue welfare for utah and rocketdyne. that's not even kind of in question. nasa has spent the last 40 years in a close enough marriage to those two contractors that the vast majority of the...

• Commented on CCDev2 Selections Announced (Update)

  obviously it doesn't take a historian either because space-x's bread and butter technology is open cycle kerosene... see Aerojet Titan I and II 1958-61...if you think they're doing something new you were born after 1990...

• Commented on More Shuttle Layoffs Ahead

  insisting whatever launch vehicle comes next HAS to be "shuttle derived" equals certain cluge that can never meet cost or performance expectations of whatever mission is required. The entire shuttle propulsion system was sold as cost effective for the shuttle...

• Commented on Shuttle Museum Announcement Today

  well call me an even bigger cynic but I don't see where there's enough votes in any state based on a shuttle on a pedastel to have any effect on a presidential election... there just aren't that many people (even...

• Commented on Shuttle Museum Announcement Today

  this is straight forward. johnson and kennedy are the home of shuttle ops. they should each get one. one should go to the smithsonian and enterprise should go to Ames where the tiles were invented, right over the fence from...

• Commented on Something "Big" at SpaceX? (Update)

  it's great that spaceX is looking to develop new things. it's great that they have a vision for the future. but just for the tallybooks... how much PROFIT are they making on their launch business? now that they've done a...

• Commented on Something "Big" at SpaceX? (Update)

  it's great that spaceX is looking to develop new things. it's great that they have a vision for the future. but just for the tallybooks... how much PROFIT are they making on their launch business? now that they've done a...

• Commented on Hall/Sensenbrenner Tag Team at House Science Committee

  that's pretty funny that the first poster deems Sensenbrenner irrelevant because he's a lawyer with no science background. Other than chairing the house science committee previously of course. but he's not knowledgeable like somebody else I'm thinking of, now who...

• Commented on Senate Rejects Obama's Space Plan

  >Mom & Pop are responsible for the funds and the government will buy the lolipops once proven that they won't kill anyone when eaten. successful, commercial space including musk becomes just as expensive as lockheed martin or boeing. orbital is...

• Commented on Welcome to Scott Horowitz's Parallel Universe

  some good points, some silly points. but the fact is that the shuttle architecture was political. the constellation was political squared. ATK placed the right people in the right spots and jobbed the selection. I have no doubt that obamaists...

• Commented on Another Ignorant Columnist

  keith I think you jumped this too quick. I believe Krauthammer intended to say since the beginning of US manned spaceflight and he said Glenn instead of Shephard. The point is since then we've always had a plan to go...

• Commented on DIRECT Delusions

  this whole thread is hilarious. Uh news flash: a serious rocket design that wasn't based on propping up ATK's booster line or PW-R's existing engines would start by saying: the first stage shall be a kerosene stage. anything involving hydrogen...

• Commented on Going In Circles Again: America Will Abandon Human Lunar Exploration - And Much More

  that's too bad. it's unfortunate that the hope of exploring space is dying this week as we remember Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia. but it was predictable. When you start off with the usual politcal game of saying we're going...

• Commented on SpaceX Refutes Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel

  edit I meant "don't" point ox at the wall...

• Commented on SpaceX Refutes Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel

  is there some kind of policy at SpaceX that their employees need to respond to this stuff? news flash you can SAY anything you want to, but until you PROVE to NASA and AF/Aerospace that you have document control, parts...