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• Commented on Russian Soyuz-2.1b Launch Failure

  Please keep in mind to distinguish between a Human Space Flight program and a Human Space Exploration program. The former is what we have and need, and the latter is what we don't need, and can't afford anyways. Soyuz like...

• Commented on Last Minute Commercial Crew Status Meeting

  I saw the briefing too, and it was just a bunch of bumbling mumbo jumbo from some mid level managers in way over their heads. These guys need to just give them the SLS money and get out of the...

• Commented on Stratolaunch Systems Unveiled

  I prefer to see action and proven success, not rhetoric and broken promises. Then Constellation is the program for you!...

• Commented on COTS Faces Reality

  Well in most of the capitalistic world, when a company presents a schedule and falls behind on that schedule then they can be said to be under performing. Sure, if there is competition, but these two companies are already under...

• Commented on COTS Faces Reality

  I'd just like to know what's going on with unmanned ressupply to ISS as contracted. My understanding of the situation is that one of the launch vehicles is nearly fully developed with a couple of test flights already completed, one...

• Commented on COTS Faces Reality

  As dbooker stated, compared to their schedule. Under performing compared to themselves? You must be kidding. All right, who else has brought brand new commercial launch vehicles (and engine) to market in five years for several hundred million dollars. Research...

• Commented on COTS Faces Reality

  Under performing compared to whom and what? NASA and Constellation? Oldspace with fifty years of experience and hundreds of billions of dollars spent? Newspace spending a few million on some RLVs? Other COTS competitors? (Hint - there are none). Give...

• Commented on A Congressional Staffer Who Needs Thicker Skin

  I'll donate some of mine. I've got plenty. And if you need some more too, just ask....

• Commented on Senate Hearing on Human Spaceflight

  I'm sorry if you find this offensive, but Orion is going to be an obsolete capsule by 2014 if not already. Bad decisions all around. When you find yourself in a situation where all of your decisions thus far have...

• Commented on Senate Hearing on Human Spaceflight

  2014 is three years in the future. That's how expensive bad decisions get made....

• Commented on Senate Hearing on Human Spaceflight

  Charlie is headquarters. Congress wants a jobs program, that's roads and commodes. They don't care about the big rocket with its puny little capsule....

• Commented on White House: No E.T. - Yet

  With no evidence either way, it's foolish to claim the odds of life existing out there somewhere are high. That's not quite what I meant. Most astrobiologists I know of a quite certain that life is abundant in the universe....

• Commented on White House: No E.T. - Yet

  Many scientists and mathematicians have looked with a statistical mindset at the question of whether life likely exists beyond Earth and have come to the conclusion that the odds are pretty high that somewhere among the trillions and trillions of...

• Commented on Apollo on Steroids Redux: Big Rockets Are The Only Answer

  Looking to learn In terms of storable non hypergolic liquid fuels for high thrust and high Isp maneuvers, basically you have pure hydrocarbons, for instance, cryogenic methane, with a boiling point and storage and handling characteristics similar to cryogenic oxygen...

• Commented on Is NASA Now Part of Obama's "We Can't Wait" Campaign Theme?

  Whether you liked constellation or not, remember that. Remember what? You would be far better off forgetting that which probably shouldn't even be mentioned, much less remembered....

• Commented on It's up to you Mr. Martin. Say something.

  As Mr. Rohrabacher pointed out today in his committee meeting (his nutty scientific beliefs and positions aside) we are truly at a rather historic moment here. Does America solve it's post shuttle problem? Does NASA abandon it's nutty beliefs and...

• Commented on SpaceX Unveils Fully Reusable Falcon 9 Plans

  At 100 fold decrease in LEO launch costs, the market will support human space flight to and from LEO. You'll just have to either trust me on that, or try to figure it all out for yourself. Your call....

• Commented on Found Tatooine, We Have

  Not sure if they have the resolution, but an exomoon?...

• Commented on Constellation on Steroids: What NASA Thinks Congress' Architecture Might Cost

  NASA - programmatic failure is not only an option, it is inevitable....

• Commented on Constellation on Steroids: What NASA Thinks Congress' Architecture Might Cost

  NASA - programmatic faulure is not only an option, it is inevitable....

• Commented on James Hansen Arrested For Yelling

  I am derisive of your position because you link to a blog post and not to a actual black and white paper, published, peer review or not, and then you don't even discuss it. You position is open to derision...

• Commented on Mike Griffin's Hypocrisy And Selective History On Display Once Again

  I believe that is the congressional and senate plan. Your delusions, Marcel, like Michael Griffin's, know no bounds. Feel free to join the rest of us in the reality based world, at your convenience, of course....

• Commented on James Hansen Arrested For Yelling

  Why should anyone care anymore about a FUBAR nation on the brink of financial default, where well over half of the population totally rejects science, and really believes it is their god given right to use the environment of the...

• Commented on More Sour Grapes From Mike Griffin

  Are you, too, saying that Holdren and Garver are engaged in a conspiracy to hurt HSF? I am saying that Ms. Garver and Dr. Holdren were involved with the hard work of salvaging if not saving AMERICAN human space flight,...

• Commented on More Sour Grapes From Mike Griffin

  No matter what else he may have done or not done, one day he will be credited with that success. And Mr. Musk and Dr. Elias will fade into obscurity....

• Commented on More Sour Grapes From Mike Griffin

  However, to the best of my knowledge, there is no working relationship between Holdren and Garver, either required or in fact. Oh ... please spare us : Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will participate with Dr. Holdren in a briefing by...

• Commented on More Sour Grapes From Mike Griffin

  The COTS teams were announced in 2006 so he can legitimately claim the fruits. What do you not understand about SpaceX and Orbital Sciences being privately (and indeed publicly) held corporations, and that Elon Musk and Antonio Elias are individuals...

• Commented on Restoring Confidence in Soyuz

  The makings of a 'perfect storm' are brewing This storm has been raging for well over a decade. It's a permanent feature on the American landscape....

• Commented on More Sour Grapes From Mike Griffin

  Hopefully they are working together. It would be sad if they weren't. What's sad is that there are actually contractors and civil servants out there working in the space program - who really think that the administrator and his deputy...

• Commented on More Sour Grapes From Mike Griffin

  My "belief" is that by abruptly killing CxP (as opposed to simply re-structuring it), using stalling tactics against the Congressional direction, and the insistence in not using the Moon as a proving ground for future systems, the Obama administration and...