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• Commented on And Now A Word From The Lunatic Fringe

  Ah, I see the moderator left up inko.m3's chauvanistic comments. I guess we see, now, that the moderators are only paying lip service to appropriate forum behavior and comment. By doing nothing, Keith, you only empower and appear to support...

• Commented on And Now A Word From The Lunatic Fringe

  Keith, comments such as this from inko.m3, "Did a JSC engineer reject your advances at a conference?" have no place in any rational discussion. It's purposely demeaning, insulting, and shows and absolute lack of any critical thought or interest in...

• Commented on Alert: Career Changes Ahead for NASA HSF Workforce

  The ITAR question is a good one. ITAR is at least dysfunctional, if not completely broken in its current state....

• Commented on NASA OIG: $368 Million Cost to Make Constellation Metric Compliant

  Uhm, I preferentially think in metric units, and I'm 'merican. Sadly Imperial units and English Engineering units are still around. It's very sad. SI units are beautifully simple. Imperial units? There's nothing beautiful, graceful, or appealing at all about Imperial...

• Commented on Fact Checking In Houston

  Yes, you're right. I had that timeline wrong. Still, timeline doesn't tell any story without context, does it? Put in the context of the state of the economy at the beginning of his term, it would have, as I said,...

• Commented on Fact Checking In Houston

  1. The previous president also went quite a while before appointing a NASA administrator. 2. Lest we forget, the new president took office in the midst of an economic meltdown. It would have been reckless to have not devoted so...

• Commented on One Last Flight for Enterprise

  I was one of many lined up outside the fence, at the end of the runway at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, that waited anxiously to see the 747 carrying the Enterprise land. It was well worth the wait. An...

• Commented on Bolden Stands His Ground

  Bolden's words are well worth listening to. There is no reason whatsoever to believe that this shift to commercial support for LEO activities won't be successful. There certainly is no objective reason for declaring US manned space efforts dead. Sure...

• Commented on A HotFire for Falcon 9

  Excellent stuff, SpaceX! Now, here's hoping for a nominal flight on April 12. I don't think it's any surprise that SpaceX or Orbital aren't as open as you'd expect (but don't always get) from NASA. It's the nature of for...

• Commented on Rep. Green: We're Only Speaking English on The Moon

  Will having to learn English, now, set the Chinese moon program back, and if so, how much?...

• Commented on A Narrow View of NASA's Broader Vision

  I don't think Livio's article reads as if he were intentionally omitting manned space exploration (as a slight). I think he was merely pointing out a side of NASA that doesn't seem to get the attention that manned space exploration...

• Commented on Can't We All Just Get Along?

  Thanks, Keith. NASA funding, beyond LEO plans, HSF, and etc. don't get solved, nor is any insight gained, from name calling or political finger pointing, something that will, no doubt, continue. No doubt beating the political horse gives some immature...

• Commented on Building a True Spaceship - And Then Going Somewhere

  It's easy to sit in front of a computer and make one after another political potshot; however ankle biting is not what NASA needs. NASA needs to demonstrate adaptability, flexibility, and a willingness to examine all sorts of ideas. Staying...

• Commented on China's Lunar Ambitions

  I'll echo some other comments and say I don't get the obsession with needing to beat the Chinese or anyone else to the Moon. First, the last I checked, we've already been there. Second, all the rabid nationalistic cheerleading might...

• Commented on The Ares 1 Cancellation Backlash Begins - Before It Is Even Announced

  As someone else also said, I see this as an opportunity. NASA has the opportunity to learn to do things efficiently, a skill which they've yet to display. It's an opportunity to cut some fat from the agency, lose some...

• Commented on Back To The Drawing Board Again

  I don't understand the ridicule and/or the reticence toward another study. Either by design or by economy, Ares is most likely doomed; therefore another approach is needed. How is that other approach to be found? By pointing while blind folded?...

• Commented on Ares 1-X Launched

  It looked like a beautiful launch/flight. Did staging go as planned/expected. From the video it looks as if one stage may have hit the other when staging....

• Commented on Ares 1-X Launch Scrubbed

  It's not unusual at all to have tighter flight rules for test flights. I'd say it's pretty normal, depending on the test goals for that flight and the given project's state of development. There was naught wrong with the wind...

• Commented on Ares 1-X Launch Scrubbed

  Hopefully the weather.....and commercial shipping.....will cooperate tomorrow. Without getting into the Ares/Direct/STS/cost fray and argument whether or not lies are being spread, perhaps this launch will be a good bit of publicity, the sort that NASA needs. After all, CNN...

• Commented on Dragon Is About To Fly While Orion Is Still on Paper

  Go, SpaceX! Show 'em how such a project should be managed and pursued....

• Commented on A Vague Call To Action

  A series of videos isn't going to sway anyone; however if NASA could or would put out public service videos that were similar, that would run on public TV, that would, over time, help improve the image of NASA in...

• Commented on White House Concerns About House Budget Cuts

  This is certainly a hot button topic, isn't it? It'd be nice to think that people responding to this and related posts were objectively considering the environment in which budget decisions were being made. By environment I don't mean the...