Chris Wilson

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• Commented on Today's Tabloid News: Royal Party Boy Wants to Be a NASA Astronaut

  Giving special privileges to someone just because he was born to the right family is against the core of what this country stands for. It would be a travesty for NASA to give Harry any special treatment not available to...

• Commented on Street Theater Outside NASA HQ at 11 am

  brobof, your rant boils down to two claims: (1) there are some differences between the experimental setup and the real-life situation they are trying to gather data about, so the experiment has no value; and (2) we already know some...

• Commented on Ares 1-Y is Toast

  "Good luck finding any NASA astronauts willing to be merely passengers on someone else's spacecraft without having the ability to fly, control and dock the spacecraft themselves." First of all where do you get the bizarre idea that a commercial...

• Commented on Challenge Everything

  "what would happen if we could tap into the expertise of the 15,000 employees at JSC to solve any one of the difficult challenges that we are wrestling with?" What an amazing combination and arrogance and ignorance. Obviously the expertise...

• Commented on Dispute Erupts Over Lunar Lander Challenge Decision

  I think you mean "The X-Prize Foundation" rather than "Space X". Space X is not involved in this competition. The X-Prize Foundation is running it. Despite both having to do with space and both having an "X" in the name,...

• Commented on Greason: The truth is the truth

  Greason is very impressive in that interview. It's hard to find fault with anything he's saying....

• Commented on Review of NASA's New iPhone App

  It's nice to hear NASA tech support is so responsive!...

• Commented on Alabama Hates Norm

  As sickening as these politicians are, it's not really the politicians that are the underlying problem -- it's the people vote for them. Members of Congress cause vast harm to the country as a whole for relatively minor local benefits...

• Commented on Yet Another Space Commerce Announcement from Florida

  I agree with Keith -- the best way to use tax dollars to help commercial space transportation is to buy transportation services from whoever provides the best service for the money. Having a group of government employees try to involve...

• Commented on NSS Blog Needs Adult Supervision

  Hmm, Karen Cramer Shea claims, "we are watching the fall of a great man because of, not in spite of that which made he great." Let's see, his fall came because he betrayed the trust placed in him and because...

• Commented on Bolden@Huntsville Today

  Is anyone else alarmed that Marshall is being given responsibility for ESAS-2? MSFC has more of a vested interest in the current Constellation plan than anyone. Is there any organization with a bigger conflict of interest?...

• Commented on Ares 1-X Is One Step Closer To Launch

  MoonLady, I'm afraid that you very badly misunderstand the software industry. The articles you quote and link to don't support your claim as you think they do. Let me start by paraphrasing what I said before: It's not very hard...

• Commented on Ares 1-X Is One Step Closer To Launch

  MoonLady writes, "But according to various CxP posters & bloggers over the past few years, this latest study indicates that it's got an 80% chance of failure based on poor management alone". What? Are you saying you infer from this...

• Commented on Ares 1-X Is One Step Closer To Launch

  MoonLady writes, "(And world class best software folks anywhere)". Let's not exaggerate. The article you refer to is from Fast Company, which is a business tabloid, not a serious software engineering publication. While it's true that NASA has processes in...

• Commented on Ares 1-X Is One Step Closer To Launch

  I'm more excited to see something new at Complex 40, which should happen in the next few months. That something is more than just spare Shuttle parts, and it actually has the ability to reach orbit....

• Commented on Rolling Out Ares 1-X

  Mike Hilton say, "What I can't understand (maybe because I'm an engineer) is that many of the naysayers have not found one thing that they think is being done "right" with Ares or the Constellation programs." Actually, I think most...

• Commented on Rolling Out Ares 1-X

  zapkitty says, "Unzip it at Max Q. Get some real and relevant data on STS-scale SRB aborts." I completely agree. The current plan for I-X will generate only some marginally useful data, even if we go ahead with Ares I....

• Commented on Rolling Out Ares 1-X

  esmithatty, I sympathize with your point. You never get anywhere if everyone keeps arguing forever. At some point, people need to accept a decision, even if they disagree with it, and pull in the same direction because *some* direction is...

• Commented on Rolling Out Ares 1-X

  "What are the objectives of this launch of a bunch of mock-ups stacked on top of an off the shelf STS SRB after 4+ years and a lot of money, again?" It has essentially the same objectives as those animations...