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• Commented on White House/ Senate Compromise Reaction

  It's nearly all pork, and it's pork we don't need with the record breaking deficit. NASA, like any other government agency, should purchase its transportation from the competitive private market. The dinosaurs like ULA, ATK, and the rest have been...

• Commented on Progress 38P Docks With ISS

  If SpaceX can deliver a Dragon seat to the ISS for $30 million as reported, will anyone be surprised if the Russians lowered the cost of a Soyuz couch to $25 million?...

• Commented on More Commentary on Constellation Closeout

  "First, an enormous amount has already been spent; $10 billion over the past five years. Most, if not all, of that will be wasted with the program's cancellation." The money was already nearly all wasted. And pouring good money after...

• Commented on Falcon 9 Launch Totally Successful

  Kudos to SpaceX an making orbit on the first try of Falcon 9. Falcon is 200 miles up. Constellation is six feet under. The taxpayers thank you....

• Commented on Budget Summary: Constellation Is Cancelled Outright

  Government employees ride in commercially produced aircraft and in commercially produced automobiles without a problem. Why should astronauts have special treatment? Just to support a thinly disguised jobs program, it appears. Cancellation of Constellation is perhaps the first major decision...

• Commented on ESA/NASA Mars Agreement Signed (Update)

  The American taxpayers have already paid a huge amount of cash for the development of the very successful MER platform (Opportunity and Spirit). Why doesn't NASA make an effort to build and sell more MERs or at least license the...

• Commented on Ares 1-X Launched

  From the video, it appeared to my admittedly non-expert eyes that the first stage post-separation pitch maneuver occurred before a total first/second stage separation and so the second stage received an unplanned counter pitch of its own. I also understand...

• Commented on Ares 1-X Launch Scrubbed

  At one point in the countdown, the clock reached T minus 2:39 when a hold was placed because of a wayward cargo ship. Had that ship not been where it shouldn't have been, the launch might have taken place today...

• Commented on Missions To Mars - All Of Them

  Correct me if I wrong, but when averaged over time the closet planet is Mercury....

• Commented on KSC Layoffs Begin

  Well, this was expected. More of interest would be the number of astronauts who are going to stay with NASA in spite of little assurance that there will ever be a government ship for them to fly. It was last...