Kelly McDonald

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• Commented on Bolden's Evolvable SLS

  "Considering that the liquid boosters won't fly until after 2030 if the leaked roadmap is legitimate, how about we have this particular fight/discussion say, around 2025ish" To me this is the biggest condemnation of the roadmap. Saturn V went from...

• Commented on Hutchison et al Wants NASA's SLS Design - Now

  All we have to do is look back at the development of the Saturn 5 to recognize that 2030 is a joke. Using the modern equivalent of bear skins and stone knives, in 12 years (1955-1967) NASA (and its contractors)...

• Commented on New Poll Shows Support For Space Funding Cuts

  This isn't at all surprising. Poll after poll shows that the average person belives that space funding should be reduces to support "solving problems on Earth". The one kicker is that when you ask the same person "what percentage of...