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• Commented on Congress Starts To Seek Policy Compromises

  Go Girl Go! Hey SETI, We just found intelligent life on the hill! It may be a political hack move, but it is the right one for this screwed up mess. Carl (Surfduke) Hewlett...

• Commented on Orion Under Siege

  The main reason for the fins on the first X-20 Titan 1 combo rendering was the aerodynamic control issues that they later planned to mitigate with flight test data from Titan II & III configurations. There was also a weight...

• Commented on Orion Under Siege

  The lifting body designs are fine for LEO if the shield protection questions can be taken care of. The main problem with the EELV and a lifting body combo is the same one X-20 and other paper craft had, you...

• Commented on NASA's Most Important Asset, Gerry Griffin, 31 December 1996

  The Key Word Is LEADERSHIP! NASA has none now and the country as a whole is adrift with a broken tiller too. Carl (Surfduke) Hewlett...

• Commented on Holdren Gets Grilled On The Hill

  Holdren wants us to study better ways to remove belly button lint. This fella is a joke. He must have gotten his credentials from the same box top that Lori G. did. Please someone stand-up and shout wake up! We...

• Commented on NASA and the future of space exploration: what do YOU think?

  Fly the shuttle and fund space x so we don't have a gap. Go with Constellation as is or reconfigure it into a direct or shuttle c system. Fund at a level that puts human not avatar boots back on...

• Commented on Falcon 9 Moves To The Pad For Checks

  Good Luck - God Speed Space X! Carl (Surfduke) Hewlett...

• Commented on Public-private Partnership Honeymoon Coming?

  "If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative." Arthur C. Clarke, The Exploration...

• Commented on Shelby: Gov't Spending is Bad - Except for Spending on NASA

  Shelby may be a pig at the slop pile, but he is working for the bacon back home. It is hard to attack a guy that is fighting the good fight for home vittles. This is a jobs program as...

• Commented on GAO - NASA's Challenges Ahead

  Looks like the GAO has made a good case to keep flying the shuttle until something else can do the job. As for how NASA handles cost overruns and funding leaks well.......... Carl Surfduke Hewlett "The best way out is...

• Commented on Bolden and Holdren Fight Back

  Charles Krauthammer did miss the gap between Mercury & Gemini then Apollo & Shuttle, (But I can forgive that). We had a bright future in mind then with goals to achieve, (Even if we all did not agree on the...

• Commented on Fact Checking on Campaign Promises

  This is all so very disappointing in the grand scheme of things. Why are we allowing this major backpedaling to remain unchallenged. We are in need of private space access but must maintain a government LEO access at least. Hitching...

• Commented on And So It Begins

  Well Good to see all the sack cloth and gnashing of teeth is still going on here. We are once again at the same crossroads we stood at in the mid 70's and we once again have a cardigan sweater...