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• Commented on Big Rocket - But Where Will It Go?

  Before we envision Dragon's landing on Mars, or the Dragon orbiting the moon "in a few years" or 20 different configurations of the Falcon Heavy, how about we let SpaceX complete their over two years late and counting cargo...

• Commented on A Closer Look at Bigelow Aerospace's Plans

  P.s. - while Dragon, Orion and CST-100 all appear in the charts, could somebody explain why slide 15 shows two Orions and nothing else?...

• Commented on A Closer Look at Bigelow Aerospace's Plans

  There is so much in this post that is just wrong, my head hurts. So I will just address one comment. "I hear spacex will not launch again till dec???? How much is that them not being able to go...

• Commented on SpaceX Responds To Forbes

  Wow, the SpaceX rebuttal of the Forbes article is linked here but the original article was conveniently overlooked. Yes, that is sarcasm. The rebuttal was an almost verbatim regurgitation of Musk's self-aggrandizing propaganda piece he posted in response to China....

• Commented on Speeding Up Orion

  @whyisthat1: The Obama plan originally cancelled Orion outright. Then it turned Orion into a rescue vehicle for station. However, now (as MPCV) it has gone back to its original goal of being an exploration vehicle to go to a variety...

• Commented on NASA Mentioned in State of the Union - the NASA of 50 Years Ago

  First of all: Why is anybody surprised this? He has used the lunar landings and the Apollo Program as a source of inspiration many times during his campaign speeches and a couple times since his election. It has always irked...

• Commented on SpaceX In The News

  Elon Musk is offering much but delivering little. His COTS demo flight (all three) were supposed to be completed by Sept 30, 2010 (next thursday). As of today, the Demo 1 flight is over two years behind schedule and is...

• Commented on SpaceX Gives a Preview of Falcon X and XX

  @neuronexmachina replied to comment from YoungEngineer | August 6, 2010 5:26 PM | Reply "SpaceX has around 1000 employees. According to you, that means the average employee salary is $250K-$350K? Um, ok." @ Crazy Eddie Blogger | August 6, 2010...

• Commented on Nelson & Hutchison Have a "Major Breakthrough" to Announce

  RC - my *guess* is (based on the draft bill) they are going to push for the SDHLV. There have been many studies performed that say we can have this capability within several years (time depends on budget, when we...

• Commented on Nelson & Hutchison Have a "Major Breakthrough" to Announce

  I don't understand these repeated allusions to "redundant" spending. And what makes you think health care wont be paid for by the Chinese?...

• Commented on Nelson's Politics Vs Florida's Concerns

  Read Section 203b (1) and (2) of the bill very carefully. That is the impression I got too. That's really the one thing I dont like about the bill, it sounds like it is almost forcing you down the...

• Commented on NASA Authorization Update

  I dont understand the whining in Florida (and above). Did they even look at the bill? It barely touches the President's budget at all. Most of the budget is unchanged. It take's $1.9B from "Constellation" shutdown, some money from commercial...

• Commented on House Gets Firm With NASA Over Data Request

  Claiming executive privilege, once again demonstrating that constantly trumpeted campaign theme of OPEN AND TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT! @ RC RC replied to comment from Jim Muncy "But Jim didn't you hear? Augustine never happened." RC, I dont know if you are...

• Commented on House Gets Firm With NASA Over Data Request

  Silly people, actual documents and records dont exist in an "open" and "transparent" government. It probably didnt help that on top of the 5 months of dodging Congress, he sent them a letter saying they werent done yet and they...

• Commented on Here Come The Layoffs

  For the millionth time - there will be no re-hiring in October because it will take a minimum of 1 year for NASA to grant new Contracts, what are people to do for 15+ months? Second of all, once they...

• Commented on Falcon 9 Development = Cost of Ares I Mobile Service Tower

  "Frank Sietzen | June 9, 2010 And if say five years from now, there are multiple commercial crew services flying both to ISS and wealthy space passengers, with NASA still developing technologies for deep space exploration missions with the first...

• Commented on NASA Invokes Anti-Deficiency Act - Will CxP Grind To a Halt?

  But who do you think is going to lose their jobs? It is the engineers, the machinists, the programmers and the skilled labor. All that will be left is that core that you say you dont like. Whether you agree...

• Commented on NASA Invokes Anti-Deficiency Act - Will CxP Grind To a Halt?

  Classy as always Tink Taking glee that 5000 people are about to lose their jobs because you dont agree with the program they work on and because you believe the lies about the cost of another vehicle. Whatever. What kind...

• Commented on Building Orion

  @MikeS I'm going to correct myself now - we were both partially right and we were both partially wrong. $278M is the total award for the COTS contract. Of that $278M, a full $248M has been distributed to SpaceX already...

• Commented on Building Orion

  Mikes seriously just too tired and not using a pc at moment, very slow touch screen. So please forgive typos. I agree, there is nothing to compare between falcon 9 launch and orion gta which was my whole point. Secondly,...

• Commented on Building Orion

  Mikes seriously just too tired and not using a pc at moment, very slow touch screen. So please forgive typos. I agree, there is nothing to compare between falcon 9 launch and orion gta which was my whole point. Secondly,...

• Commented on Falcon 9 Development = Cost of Ares I Mobile Service Tower

  true, but that horizontal integration isnt going to help you when you get to crewed operations. At that point you are going to need to build a launch tower of some sort otherwise the only way to get the crew...

• Commented on Building Orion

  @tinker "In the time it took Lockheed Martin to do this Spacex has ,in the same amount of time, already put their Ground Test Article into orbit... and they even have a launch vehicle to do it too." For...

• Commented on Let The Layoffs Begin

  @sherlock I love these self declared experts who are actually completely clueless "What everyone seems to have forgotton the Constellation program involving the Ares 1 rocket and Orion capsule are years behind schedule. The program was conceived 2004 and what...

• Commented on Jeff Hanley Removed From CxP Management

  It is disturbing that vocal people here with no human spaceflight background and no engineering background constantly "correct" those of us who are working in the trenches when we tell them something because they think they know better than us,...

• Commented on Jeff Hanley Removed From CxP Management

  For the record during Congressional testimony this morning, Bolden first tried to deny any knowledge that Jeff Hanley had been removed from his position, saying he was unaware of it. Then when pressed he said that any decision on that...

• Commented on An Editorial That Is NOT Written By A Moon Walker

  "The Dragon and Cygnus is the replacement for Shuttle.I suggest that Mr.Snyder go to spacex.com and catch up on 5 years of updates,video tours, engine and thruster firings and other tests, then come back and tell us what SpaceX is...

• Commented on Joint Statement From Closed Space Group Meeting

  @possum Why do people keep spouting things like this when they clearly have no idea what they are talking about? The competition phase did not end until August 2006. Lockheed Martin's Orion Contract began in October 2006, so it has...

• Commented on Bolden Vs Armstrong and Cernan: Clash of the Titans Round 2

  @Kevin said: "NASA as a research organization needs to focus on that challenges and problems and overcome them, once they are overcome, then we can go to the Moon, Mars, and Asteroids." Actually, no we cant, because Obama said we're...

• Commented on OSTP's Holdren Comments on Space Policy Reaction

  ELAS3 you are doing a good job of proving my point for me. I just told you Orion is moving along and still marching towards a 2014 IOC and you follow it with the statement "I think the question is...