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• Commented on Back To The Moon - Minus The Great Big Rocket

  FINALLY! I have thought about this very thing for years!...

• Commented on Last Minute Commercial Crew Status Meeting

  A 12 1/2 hour meeting? Finally, I'm getting excited about this!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

• Commented on What Would Wernher Do? What DID He Do?

  I think that the simpler the design, the safer the system. I feel like NASA engineers are hung up on inventing or perfecting new technology with everything. I feel as if the taxi ride to L.E.O. should be as safe...

• Commented on SLS: Its All About Jobs, Mr. President

  With unemployment hovering above 9% for the last few years, I don't find a problem with these cities wanting more high tech jobs. I think it will boost their economies and their tax bases. What is so wrong about that?...

• Commented on NASA's Ongoing (But Closely Held) Interest In SLS Alternatives

  OMG! Logical ideas for the budgetarily challenged! I have always thought that the K.I.S.S. principal should be used when possible. The side mount does that, and in a timely manner! I of course speak to the simplicity of the concept,...

• Commented on IG Asked To Do Investigation on Political Bias Inside NASA

  I think this is a wonderful idea but they need to check for this on both sides of the aisle......

• Commented on Video: J-2X Rocket Engine Test

  I think that using 50 y/o technology is great but dang! what are they doing that something that worked back then is in question now????...

• Commented on Video: J-2X Rocket Engine Test

  The typo in my post should read; NASA is finally being seen for what it really is... A bloated bureaucratic agency that CAN'T get anything done in a timely and cost effective way!...

• Commented on Video: J-2X Rocket Engine Test

  Definitely NOT SpaceX! It has taken 6 or 7 years to re engineer a 50 year old rocket engine! Space x took 8 years to produce two wholly new rockets and a pressurized cargo/crew module to ride on top of...

• Commented on Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft Formation Flying

  hauling relics......

• Commented on NASA OIG: NASA's Stuff Is Getting Old

  The NASA infrastructure reflects our country's infrastructure......

• Commented on Dear NASA Folks: Show Up For Work, Please

  FIRST AND FOREMOST, i owe Keith an apology. I wanted this to be public so that he realizes my sincerity is genuine. I attempted to be overly aggressive in my political argument. I was wrong to do this. NOW on...

• Commented on Good Jobs Are Hard to Find on the Space Coast

  Laying out the old red carpet for SPACEX!...

• Commented on The Senate Wants One Copy of Every NASA Document

  I am a HUGE space geek. That being said, I feel like I'm in a bad dream here. So you are saying that NASA gets Caste Blanche with our taxes????? For a rocket that has legacy equipment and engineering on...

• Commented on NASA HQ Furlough Plans Move Forward

  Good to see all the Hope and Change working so well... LOL!!! "Yes we can!"? I think it's more like No He Didn't! All they have done on the left is to make a mess of everything! They had the...

• Commented on NASA Cuts to Solar Orbiter Collaboration

  "No bucks,No Buck Rodgers"- Gus Grissom...

• Commented on Sending 3/4 Billion Dollars To Russia

  Shuttle can take 7 astronauts + 20,000 lbs. of cargo for only 400 million more I think we take care of our own interests we'd be better off!...

• Commented on Digital Soyuz Issues Arise (Update)

  The already have a plan... it wont be more than a few flights a year, however, you can put a lot of cargo and people on it...just like today! Here is the proposal http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=3828 We need to be able to...

• Commented on Digital Soyuz Issues Arise (Update)

  Hope that USA can privatize the shuttle...its all we have......

• Commented on Digital Soyuz Issues Arise (Update)

  Good thing we are retiring the shuttle......

• Commented on China's Military Space Surge

  I am only pointing out that missile guidance technology was given to the Chinese. They couldn't get their rockets to fly right, so Loral space gave them guidance technology for their "Rockets" (missiles are rockets) so that Loral's satellites could...

• Commented on China's Military Space Surge

  Good thing we have "Leaders" who are concerned with our national security. (SARCASM). Check out the facts in the congressional records Re: Bill Clinton and one of his donors and Chinese missiles... http://www.fas.org/news/china/1998/h980618-prc8.htm Get informed and think before you vote...

• Commented on Movement Afoot To Drop Climate Change From NASA

  I know what causes global warming!!! IT'S THE SUN!!!! Either that or all the whining about global warming. Check out manbearpig. seriously. it explanes much of the fight about global warming and climate change....

• Commented on Wishful Thinking About Shuttle Extension

  Finally someone is talking some sense!!!! Why would we care if USA does this? It's their dime... I always thought putting all our eggs in the Russian basket was short sighted anyway! 2 flights a year would keep the ISS...

• Commented on NASA Mentioned in State of the Union - the NASA of 50 Years Ago

  Papa, does the military still have planes and helicopters? Have they had them since they started using aviation??? The answer if you aren't sure about it, is YES!!! Are they cutting edge? YES!!! OK then, now I think that NASA...

• Commented on NASA Mentioned in State of the Union - the NASA of 50 Years Ago

  He was sworn in Jan 20 2009. the Shuttle could have been saved at that point with immediate attention, but being a self serving tax and spend liberal, he was more interested in pushing through the bloated stimulus and health...

• Commented on NASA Mentioned in State of the Union - the NASA of 50 Years Ago

  This from the man who killed the manned space program......

• Commented on HLV: NASA Says No, Congress Says Yes.

  I guess it's time to tighten the belt, at least they can keep working, although I think a top to bottom reorganization will need to occur. NASA is a bloated bureaucracy in its 52nd year...the upper end of middle age,...

• Commented on Congress Rejects NASA's HLV Plans

  Didn't we go to the moon with computers the were less powerful than a scientific calculator? So let see,Pressure vessel , 5-10 high powered laptops,food, seats, power, air to breathe... reaction control, and parachutes.I'm just saying SIMPLEST design as light...

• Commented on Congress Rejects NASA's HLV Plans

  Why not modernize the F1? I don't get the whole ssme thing? They are reusable but they are pricey to maintain...cant we figure out something that is expendable from what we already have designed...I know that engineers want to make...