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• Commented on Should Congress Design the Next Big Booster?

  What payloads will they put on these early HLV’s? We do need definable physical goals so we can design payloads and then fit the boosters to the payload’s requirements. I think we already have the answer. Why was the Shuttle...

• Commented on What is the Space Shuttle's True Legacy?

  I remember visiting Grumman in 1970, with the Junior Engineering Technical Society, I was in high school; we were there mainly to see the LMs under construction, and seeing models of the different Shuttle configurations they were developing and bidding...

• Commented on Keeping Our Eyes On The Prize

  Here is a good analysis: www.gmupolicy.net/aerospace/WorkshopFinalReport.pdf...

• Commented on Keeping Our Eyes On The Prize

  Your narratives are similar to the story that Bob Rogers http://www.bobrogers.com/ and several others have been presenting for many years. Rogers and other have been presenting his ideas to the NASA Means Business students http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/nmb/past_programs.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH_6mCdDEzE http://www.opennasa.com/2010/05/06/a-relevant-human-space-program/ since about 2003...

• Commented on Keeping Our Eyes On The Prize

  Then we have to be smarter and develop the message in the name of science, technology, engineering, and math. The goal is to get kids hooked on space and the future, not to teach history. They watch NASCAR, get all...

• Commented on Keeping Our Eyes On The Prize

  "If you want to inspire people to work in this field, then give them a compelling vision... like having a high technology civilization to bequeath to their children." I think a compelling vision is a high technology civilization living and...

• Commented on Video: It's nice to know that America still builds rockets

  Advertising like this is great and better than anything that govt money could buy....

• Commented on OSTP's New STEM Guy Is Out Of Synch With Upper Management

  "NASA contributes to education, but that's not what the agency is for." I've heard this stated many times so no doubt yours is a widespread belief, but it is very incorrect. The NASA Act states all of the following and...

• Commented on OSTP's New STEM Guy Is Out Of Synch With Upper Management

  There are about 60 million students in grades K-12 in the US in about 125000 schools with about 7 million teachers. Research appears to show that the time to capture a student's interest in a way that will ultimately effect...

• Commented on OSTP's New STEM Guy Is Out Of Synch With Upper Management

  I think Dr. Wieman's comments are consistent with the National Academies report. What the report says is that what NASA does can be inspirational. But it says, -the educational programs within NASA are very inconsistent and unstable owing in large...

• Commented on Astronauts At The Controls: 2010 Vs "2001" (in 1968)

  Visibility is much better from the ISS Cupola Flight Deck than it is from the 2001 Pod. I'd like to see some good VR imagery taken looking up into the cupola and out in all directions....

• Commented on New Senate Roadblock To Obama Space Plans

  Actually, the original Station requirements/capabilities were for a crew of 8. The current 6 is dictated by Soyuz capabilities. Apollo could carry, and could be configured for 6, though in its rescue mode for Skylab and ASTP, it was going...

• Commented on Building a True Spaceship

  We did a couple of color renderings of the interior of the modules in a partial G configuration, and one or two of the interior of the Mars lander, but nothing more of the exterior. I will try to find...

• Commented on Building a True Spaceship

  Dr. Aldrin is definitely on the right track. We did preliminary design studies using the station modules and cupola looking at planetary and lunar missions, both fly-by and surface operations. This was back during SEI around 1989-90. We looked at...

• Commented on This Week in Space With Miles O'Brien

  http://www.spacearchitect.org/pubs/IAC-02-IAA.8.2.04.pdf Page 12 of this article tells how we developed the design of the nodes. Pages 13-15 talks about the evolution of the cupola requirements, concept and design....

• Commented on Bolden Talks About Education

  NASA has had Spacemobile lecturers, professional educators who would travel around to schools and museums to put on demonstrations and talks, for about 45 years. In the 1960s NASA sponsored development of an entire series of special publications on Space...

• Commented on Bolden Talks About Education

  There are plenty of opportunities for NASA to leverage the educational system of the US and the emphasis the administration is placing on certain aspects of education. Here is an example: President Obama is pushing charter and magnet schools. These...

• Commented on NAC seeks NASA Education and Public Outreach Help

  People inside or outside of NASA who have a track record of advocacy and success in leading the charge of developing new strategies, new messages and new products. People who know how and are practitioners in communicating the inspirational value...

• Commented on A Vague Call To Action

  http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/nmb/past_programs.html...

• Commented on Making Rockets Obsolete

  VASIMR or another advanced propulsion system is the kind of R&D that can open up the solar system to human exploration, and could be done on a reasonable budget and at a reasonable pace. Advanced propulsion systems (it was called...