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Commented on Bolden's ISS Update
Our NASA managers risked everything...putting complete faith and trust in the Russians... not a NASA decision.... Not true. You are confusing events of the early and mid 1990s with events of the last five years, and actually in both cases... -
Commented on Choir Practice With Bullhorns at NASA
I think JonathanN has pretty well captured it and your idea to just put in a project name fails. You would have to expect people to know the project name. NASA organizes and produces all of its stuff for the... -
Commented on NASA OIG Critical Of Paying For Employee Education
For some reason they stopped asking for that commitment a couple years ago on most of the courses. If you take a look at the IG report, very few people left after completing a degree. I note that the IG... -
Commented on SLS: A Rarely Flown Rocket to Nowhere?
I think you may have lost sight of what the program is about. If we are ever going to send astronauts off on long duration missions to the planets, then everything that ISS is about is needed. We need to... -
Commented on Today's Tabloid News: Royal Party Boy Wants to Be a NASA Astronaut
His best bet might to go to test pilot school and get hired on with Boeing, SpaceX, or one of the other Newspace companies and take one of the new vehicles for its first rides. NASA will continue to look... -
Commented on Video: World
I'm not quite certain what the interest is in this song and video. The song is so-so. The video is a bunch of clips in no particular order mainly from previous expedition films, or maybe they are just some of... -
Commented on Where You Stand Depends On Where You Sit
You're right, the ops people could probably be retrained. What we object to is that in ops there was a legitimate bureaucracy for promotion and advancement, which in the engineering ranks we never had. Now, after 20 years of these... -
Commented on Orion, oops I mean NASA's MPCV Does Tour
"This dog-and-pony show exhibit of the Orion test capsule (along with the Ares 1X flight) reminds me of those times working in the software development world when the project was behind schedule and missing features but management insisted we cobble... -
Commented on Paolo's Space Pix Found!
And along with the plain images, annotated versions should have been released that pointed out major features of the Shuttle and ISS, that way the news people can speak intelligently for a minute or two, and not just show a... -
Commented on Paolo's Space Pix Found!
Its really simple marketing. NASA keeps saying they inspire the nation. One of the ways they might be able to do that is with great imagery. On Apollo 11 there were 100+ pictures taken during a 2 hour moonwalk. Everyone... -
Commented on Senators Come Out In Support of Open SLS Procurement Strategy
I don't know what their motive is, but the logic is correct. The legislators ought to demand fairness in rewarding the contract. It might have been something different a few years ago when Shuttle assembly lines were open and workers... -
Commented on ISS National Lab Management Entity Announcement Today? Guess Not.
"NASA never wanted to go down this path to begin with." Not an accurate statement. There is no one NASA. Mark Uhran, Assistant AA for ISS, who has been talking and writing about ISS utilization for 20 years, has always... -
Commented on Why Houston Did Not Get A Shuttle
I wonder if Wayne invited all of his friends in the mayor's, governor's and Congressional offices to visit JSC and they simply refused to come and visit? I know I am asked to give tours to Houstonians and visitors coming... -
Commented on Texas Politicians Escalate Fight With New York and NASA
At least the NYC and Houston proposals are both equally unimaginative; simply a Shuttle in a building with big windows that permit people to look in from outside. Most of the displays are about the same.... -
Commented on Shuttle Missions: $1.5 Billion Each?
Given all that the Shuttle has done and can do on a mission, it sounds like a bargain. Compare it to an Orion, which looks like it will be equally as expensive but which cannot carry half the crew or... -
Commented on Gerst and the Blogosphere
I guess there must be some small set of people who keep informed on a minute to minute basis with tweets, but I'm not one of them. NASA news releases seem to all come out the same way. Doesn't seem... -
Commented on Discarding The Shuttle
What we have witnessed over the last six years are the managers of Constellation who are the architects of the space program that is about to begin as Shuttle ends... I think what we witnessed was a handful of schmendricks... -
Commented on NASA Budget to be Announced Next Monday
The IG letter says they recognize there are issues with NASA project management. I think everyone recognizes there have been serious issues with program management. So I think by definition, whatever they would find when they would do an inventory... -
Commented on Congress Rejects NASA's HLV Plans
Well said! It was not only at MSFC. And it was not only Apollo veterans. Anyone with experience was rejected.... -
Commented on Merging SOMD and ESMD
The main functions of the two organizations is human space flight. They should never have been separate to begin with. Over the last 10 years 'operations' got to be all powerful, probably because no one was doing any designing, developing... -
Commented on NASA: It's Our Space Station - Not Yours
Its simple physics. Biggest issue might be the change in sunlight/temperatures on the vehicle in the lower inclination orbit, but I think they would be more benign. As soon as VASIMR gets there, maybe next year, you could begin the... -
Commented on How Many Astronauts Does NASA Need?
"NASA has always had more than twice as many astronauts as necessary." They started out with a reasonable number: 7. Even the next couple groups they added were OK, but the required number is still no more than 2 or... -
Commented on ISS Turns 10
I wonder why the focus on 10 years of people on ISS? Maybe they are embarrassed about 26 years working until assembly complete? Or 12 or 13 years under construction in orbit? They did not focus on the quarter century... -
Commented on Chilean Mine Rescuers To Be Honored at White House
"It made you feel proud to be associated with NASA." Not too many moments like that anymore.... -
Commented on NASA Seeks Commercial Crew Proposals
I was just listening the other day to the ISS management talk about the great potential of ISS now that its built and ready for use. But until they make it user friendly which means reducing the integration process, reducing... -
Commented on Wayne Hale: OMB Strikes Again
The zombie comment was not intended to offend anyone in particular (just NASA management in general). Four years ago NASA started detailed planning to shut down Shuttle. By three years ago it was obvious that Constellation had serious problems. Yet... -
Commented on Wayne Hale: OMB Strikes Again
Its never too late to start improving. This sounds like there has been a start, which is great. I'd like to see ISS become more independent of ground based support, just as will be required for deep space missions when... -
Commented on Wayne Hale: OMB Strikes Again
I think these were revolutionary concepts-serious departures from the Space Shuttle in terms of design, functionality and capabilities. I think what was needed was an evolutionary enhancement and improvement of Shuttle. In what appears typical NASA fashion, they always like... -
Commented on Wayne Hale: OMB Strikes Again
The "just do it" approach is a failure of the space implementation community too. Notably in the world of space station, those people cannot seem to recognize they have a facility that is useful for redefining how space operations ought... -
Commented on Dave King: Old Ways Of Thinking Still Persist
"Another Shuttle ops engineer with no design and development experience who rose to the level of Center Director (at a design center no less) through connections and networking. No technical competence or integrity at all." Well said. Ditto for JSC....
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