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• Commented on Video: J-2X Engine Test

  The moon just got a little closer....

• Commented on Bolden's Plan for Webb

  If I had my way, I would quadruple NASA's budget and deciding which children to eat would not be an issue. But the horrible mismanagement is nothing to dismiss in times like this, and I think SLS/Orion is the...

• Commented on Bolden's Plan for Webb

  I disagree and the evidence is to the contrary. It's more then just basic needs that drive us forward. All children will clearly be curious and explore their environs. "What is the origin of the devouring curiosity that drives...

• Commented on Bolden's Plan for Webb

  I am enthused about commercial as well, I want to go! And that is my potential ride. But some things we can only do collectively and despite congress or administrations whims, America manages to muddle through and do them....

• Commented on Bolden's Plan for Webb

  I loved it all as a kid too, but all people who gaze into space, be it through CCD or backyard telescope.... wonder what is out there and what it would be like. I think there is very fundamental...

• Commented on Bolden's Plan for Webb

  I mentioned more then inspiration. It's like all things in life, move forward or stagnate. America is stagnating right now. We need these challenges, we need highly visable challengers and heroes. We need to be risk takers and pioneer...

• Commented on Bolden's Plan for Webb

  NASA pioneers. Commercial follows. Commercial has not even sent one human being into orbit. Not yet. And when they do, it will be because NASA did it many decades ago now. There is a relationship there. Again, NASA pioneers,...

• Commented on Bolden's Plan for Webb

  Kids don't play astronomer at recess. They play astronauts and fictional space heroes. Just like kids were nuts about Lindberg once. A NASA astronaut walks into a classroom, with the flight suit, the mission patches... every kid is going to...

• Commented on Bolden's Plan for Webb

  Because a future for this nation with Americans moving out into the solat system is a better one than one without it. For America and for humanity. The benefits are manifold, spinoffs, inspiration, education. The sooner the better. NASA HSF...

• Commented on Bolden's Plan for Webb

  Yes, remember Hubble was nearly a disaster. Shuttle was able to bail it out. We should dwell on that a while given that this will never see a human hand again after launch. NASA needs to focus on getting humans...

• Commented on Let's Fund "The Astronaut's Secret"

  There is a bigger picture to be concerned with then those things mentioned so far. Donated!...

• Commented on Students Provide Neil Armstrong With Some Advice For His Hearing

  It it truly "commercial" if it needs to beg for federal funds?...

• Commented on NASA Exploration Ideas - With Added China Bashing (Update)

  I don't think the people in power in China would have a problem with that depiction of future history. Why should we?...

• Commented on SLS, Saturn V, And Ares V Color Schemes (Update)

  One less paint color for model builders to buy. Yay!...

• Commented on Found Tatooine, We Have

  Watch out! It's going to be a "special edition" where NASA shot first....

• Commented on LRO Offers New Look at Apollo Landing Sites

  This nation should hang it's head in shame that Cernan may be right. I want to see him shake the hand of the next moonwalker, time is running out for that. I hope he lives long enough....

• Commented on Progress Mission To ISS Fails

  If this was a crewed flight, what would the abort options have been?...

• Commented on More Climate Change Arm Waving

  Science is a never ending process. I've learned a little over the years. Here is a prediction and I am 100% convinced I am correct..... Both sides of this issue are going to be in for big surprises in...

• Commented on Mike Griffin is Still Unhappy

  It does appear that intentional stalling is occuring....

• Commented on President Obama Announces "Capture the Flag" in Space

  Interesting how everyone talks about return to moon except Obama. Bolden, Garver, I just listened to mission highlights and the Atlantis crew as well, mentioning the flag will be flown again to lunar destination. I think Obama has been out...

• Commented on President Obama Announces "Capture the Flag" in Space

  Hey bassplayinbe - did you know that Obama called raising the debt ceiling back then a "failure in leadership"? It's not now though apparently. Sigh. Same ol same ol in DC. Anyways..... For a President that has been fawned over...

• Commented on NASA Image of the Day: Curiosity

  She's beautiful. I could only dream to work on such things that will touch another world....

• Commented on Orion, oops I mean NASA's MPCV Does Tour

  The name change is silly, but I suppose it will happen again. Most of us will keep saying Orion I suppose. They can call it pumpkin pie at this point, as long as she takes us out of LEO! I...

• Commented on MEPAG Set for 1st International Meeting

  How far behind schedule and over budget was the ISS relying on the Russians? And they never met the noise spec if I recall. Soon they are the only access for Americans to ISS. Cooperation is great, just do NOT...

• Commented on Lights In The Sky

  I saw the hazy plume also, I thought maybe from all the RCS action though. I've seen that kind of thing before but seemed it was always when shuttle was near ISS. Either way, made for a dramatic sight and...

• Commented on Shuttle Missions That Might Have Happened

  A Columbia rescue mission makes me start to tear up. Damn. They would have found a way I know it....

• Commented on Apollo Vets Are Not Happy Today (White House Responds)

  Like it or not, the presidential election is well underway. This opinion piece, given it's quoting of JFK so many times, in my mind is clearly an attempt to at least kick start some debate on the topic of...

• Commented on Rep. Posey Wants Return to the Moon by 2020

  The case for lunar return will only grow. We have this wonderful natural satellite, full of resource and valuable lessons for us only three days from home. Almost like it was put there for a reason it seems to me...

• Commented on Rep. Posey Wants Return to the Moon by 2020

  "We choose to go to the moon." God devil or sun make it so again. We can do it. We can....

• Commented on Parochial Congress? Never.

  “Manned spaceflight is prohibitively expensive, especially considering our budgetary woes,” said Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense" We spend a pittance on human spaceflight. You could cancel it utterly and it wouldn't put a dent in our...