Dr_Prunesquallor

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• Commented on New Senate Roadblock To Obama Space Plans

  "The physics of Ares-1 are broken". Urban Myth and untrue. As long as you guys keep mindlessly parrotting what you read in blogs, I will continue to correct you. Ares I has perfectlay adequate performance to orbit Orion with 4...

• Commented on New Senate Roadblock To Obama Space Plans

  This isn't so much a vote of confidence for Constellation as it is a attempt to to force the Obama Administration to obey the law of the land. Obama can't cancel Constellation - pure and simple. That's Congress' job. He...

• Commented on Aerospace Corp Responds To Rep. Giffords' Questions

  "Ten of the greatest minds in the business with hundreds of years of combined experience spent hundreds of hours trying to solve a problem that has baffled NASA for decades, and this is what you ask?" Oh, puleeeze.... "If you...

• Commented on Aerospace Corp Responds To Rep. Giffords' Questions

  Wow. "Aerospace did not independently develop the basis for the $3B initial estimate. The Committee did not ask Aerospace to independently verify the $3 billion figure". "Aerospace was not privy to all of the background material on the cost of...

• Commented on Today's Senate Hearing on Space Policy

  "Heck, hasn't the entire EELV program to date required considerably less money than that?" Maybe, but pretty much the entire EELV program to date has BEEN a bailout. Look it up. Delta IV has NEVER managed to sell a commercial...

• Commented on Orion Abort Test Photos

  "A proper transportation system provides its own intact abort modes". Fantasy engineering....

• Commented on ESMD Gets Back To Basics

  "Imagine if NASA had followed that path." It is very easy to imagine what would have happened. The lack of a product from Steidle's endless spirals and the technologies with no mission had Congress ready to defund the VSE after...

• Commented on NASA HQ On Termination Liability

  I am amazed this has generated no comments, as it is potentially the most important move in the Administration vs. Congrassional debate concerning the future of HSF. The Administration has invoked a law never before applied to NASA which forces...

• Commented on Well, There Seems To Be A Compromise After All

  Well, several things could be happening here. 1) The "commercial" folks could be figuring out that it is pretty tough to keep a vehicle healthy on ISS for six months and want that requirement to go away. Hence NASA takes...

• Commented on Apollo Veterans (And Mike Griffin) Plead Their Case

  "These shuttle hating retro spam canners should not get their way." This is a moronic statement. Look at the list, please. Shuttle commanders, crewmembers and center directors during Shuttle development and Operations....

• Commented on Apollo Veterans (And Mike Griffin) Plead Their Case

  "... this move will force as many as 30,000 irreplaceable engineers and managers out of the space industry. False. The budget increase should fund 5,000 to 10,000 more jobs, not fewer." False right back at you. The problem is, of...

• Commented on Apollo Veterans (And Mike Griffin) Plead Their Case

  "If you want an example of someone who doesn't have a degree, look at John Glenn..." ???????????????? "Glenn attended primary and secondary schools in New Concord, Ohio. He attended Muskingum College in New Concord and received a Bachelor of Science...

• Commented on Dear Mike: Think Before You Gossip

  Sorry, Frank, but I don't find your comments to show much more maturity than Griffin's (if Cowing's assertions are true). Editor's note "If" they are true? of course they are. "disgraced former administrator" Really? "Disgraced?" Statements like this are more...

• Commented on New Roles for NASA Centers

  Commercial Crew Program Office to KSC? HUGE back of the hand to JSC....

• Commented on Is A Human Space Flight Compromise Emerging?

  This is hilarious on so many levels..... But the main one is, this is essentially identical to the 1989 NASA "90-Day Study" in response to GHWB's "Space Exploration Initiative". At least someone is up on their history....

• Commented on Looking Backward - Not Forward

  "Ares I is bloated, over-budget, and behind schedule." Ah, you've sat in on the Garver sound bite brainwahing sessions. It is NOT over budget. No matter how ofter you repeat something, that does not make it true. Behind schedule? Yep,...

• Commented on I Smell A Compromise In The Making

  No one, NO ONE I know takes those cost estimates by Orbital, SpaceX, etc. seriously. But, it will be easy to see if THEY believe it. Sign them up for a fixed-price development contract, fixed passenger costs to the government...

• Commented on I Smell A Compromise In The Making

  The only, ONLY reason Obama would think he needed to compromise was if it actually looked likely that Congress was going to significantly rewrite (i.e., reject) the OSTP/OMB budget proposal for NASA - which seems more and more probable....

• Commented on Developing Senate Legislation on NASA

  "It didn't take long to make it obvious that ARES 1 could not loft "Orion Heavy" for trans-lunar missions, so what else was there, other than ISS?" That is an absolute load of crap. It is obvious you know nothing...

• Commented on Developing Senate Legislation on NASA

  "Nobody here knows what Obama's "real plan" is, but I believe in face value here: that he genuinely wants to stand up a vibrant commercial HSF and cargo capability to LEO, and foster research to simplify travel BEO." Obama has...

• Commented on More Shuttle Flights? Just Send Money

  "Characterizing that as "giving up US human spaceflight for the indefinite future" is at best premature --- a prediction, not a fact." Yes, it IS a fact. "Indefinite" = "undefined". There was NO DEFINITION of when human spaceflight would resume...

• Commented on Space Policy and Election 2012

  "Nelson said the president should declare during the Florida conference that NASA's goal is to send humans to Mars". Big Deal. From the Bush VSE: "Extend human presence across the solar system, starting with a human return to the Moon...

• Commented on More Shuttle Flights? Just Send Money

  I have to give Shannon credit for speaking his mind (and the truth) even though it contradicts Garver's policy. I was never a big fan of continuing the Shuttle in the pre-February world, but that option is infinitely better than...

• Commented on Fragola on Safety: If You Say Something Often Enough ...

  Nice. Right after your "can't we get along" speech, you continue to demonize Joe Fragola, one of the smartest guys in the business and on the original Apollo LM team....

• Commented on Conflicting and Colliding Messages Regarding "Plan B"

  Well, I'm sorry if you don't like my comment, but I stand by it. It is now Bolden's job to be a "yes" man for Garver and the Administration. Witness "his" latest memo to the troops forbidding them from working...

• Commented on Bolden Seeks To Set The Record Straight

  "I have not asked anyone to develop an alternative to that budget and plan, and I don't want anybody to do so". Well, yes. This sets the record straight alright. It is a message to NASA employees that they...

• Commented on Conflicting and Colliding Messages Regarding "Plan B"

  Translation: Garver found out, told Bolden to shut it down. Bolden hangs Coats out to dry....