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• Commented on China's Space Station

  Again..the shuttle was NOT just used for crew transport. To retire it now is probably right if crew transport was the only purpose. But it did so many more significant things in it's lifetime and stating it's only crew transport...

• Commented on SpaceX Explains Why They Beat China on Cost

  Chris..comparing what SpaceX has done to what constellation did for a lot more money is probably a valid comparison. However, comparing the shuttle to SpaceX is ludicrous. Shuttle was designed and built in the 70's and served 4 decades of...

• Commented on SpaceX Has Its Eyes on Mars

  To Tinker and WhizKid... Yes, there's a ton to like about spaceX. But also, anyone who comes on here and ever posts negative about SpaceX or any other entity that's not NASA tend to get run off. There's enough anger...

• Commented on Kay Bailey Hutchison Is Against Commercial Space - Not Good for Texas

  Oh and Ferris. Please forgive me if it sounds like I am against commercial crew vehicles or the funding distributed to them. I am all for it actually, but I am leary of any true long term cost savings when...

• Commented on Kay Bailey Hutchison Is Against Commercial Space - Not Good for Texas

  Ferris I do see your points and a few of them are good to hear. I also appreciate the hardware that was launched on Dragon X and it's success, however it's still a long ways away from any human rating...

• Commented on Kay Bailey Hutchison Is Against Commercial Space - Not Good for Texas

  Futurespace..totally irellevant and incorrect comparison. What did the December Dragon flight really prove that was comparable to what Orion was trying to accomplish? Ares 1X dev launch occured as did PA1 launch for Orion. SpaceX is a great company and...

• Commented on Endeavour to LA, Atlantis to KSC, Discovery to DC, Enterprise to New York

  james..you seem to not realize on the tour that the Apollo FCR is a valued stop. I'm pretty sure those spacecraft don't fly anymore, and oops what about the mockups and training facilities? Oh but don't let me add actual...

• Commented on Shuttle Museum Announcement Today

  Stan, I read quite well thank you. Apparently you may not write what you intend. You stated that you believe no other place other than the air and space museum is more deserving. My question to you was how can...

• Commented on Shuttle Museum Announcement Today

  Sorry Stan, but I don't buy into your logic. You can't say the entire country paid for it therefore the centers and facilities that supported it for 40 years don't get an advantage over other cities. No one has proven...

• Commented on Planning for an Orderly Shutdown at NASA

  sftommy...really? they aren't acting on behalf of the 294,000,000 amercians in getting this ridiculous debt under control? Please do enlighten me as to how the current proposed budgets are offerning any tax breaks versus curbing spending. You may not like...

• Commented on Aerospace Corp Study Dumps on Commercial Crew Prospects

  So when it's against commerical it's biased, when it's against NASA it's all true right? Are they really the only biased ones here?...

• Commented on Repainted Ares 1 For Sale as "Liberty"

  So Rick Tumlinson states "It's a thinly-veiled attempt to profit at the expense of the taxpayers"..well the government has subsidized/funded part of the Dragon rocket also. Not to mention NASA has provided technical insight and shared data at the expense...

• Commented on House Hearing Summary

  Now in "Libby"'s same premise. For all of you constantly saying the program was over budget..show me the numbers that prove it was and was not a case of underfunding from promised budgets? I don't claim Cx wasnt without flaws...

• Commented on House Hearing Summary

  Uh, no. NASA promised a cost, that never materialized and congress was unwilling to foot the bill for what the Constellation program actually was going to cost. ------------- Not true, the GAO said there was no basis for the estimate...

• Commented on House Hearing Summary

  expressnews10...I think you have misguided facts. You state NASA Tried and NASA Failed, and stated they overspent. In realiaty, NASA was promised a budget by the president that never materialized. They were tasked to build a LEO and Lunar mission...