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• Commented on Political Commentary Disguised as a Video Game Review

  Agreed, it's not much of a review. But, the author is correct on one point. The game is too boring to play....

• Commented on The Cape Week in Review - Politics, Layoffs and Hope

  @Jason I don't think what you wrote was wrong. The sensors are in the SSMEs after all....

• Commented on The Cape Week in Review - Politics, Layoffs and Hope

  Turbine discharge temperature sensors in multiple SSMEs failed. Booster's log would make fascinating reading....

• Commented on Kepler Co-I Sasselov Blames Media For Misunderstanding

  Why does he "need" to admit it? You may need him to, but it does not appear that he needs to....

• Commented on Astronauts Send Letter in Support of Commercial Crew

  Isn't Bowersox employed by SpaceX?...

• Commented on UDPATE: Obama DID NOT "Charge" Bolden To Do Muslim Country Outreach

  Normally I would say the inmates are running the asylum, but it appears that they have broken free and are now running the country....

• Commented on Charlie Bolden: Stealth Middle East Diplomat?

  The NASA administrator's foremost goal is to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world. It's over, guys....

• Commented on White House on Space: Ready, Fire, Aim

  "Few if any in MOD come from an operational culture". That is ridiculous....

• Commented on John Glenn Has Something To Say

  Don't forget Glenn (like Nelson) used taxpayer dollars to give himself a scientifically useless, poorly justified ride on the Shuttle. Glenn is for NASA now only when it helps him politically....

• Commented on Bigelow Joins Commercial Spaceflight Federation

  Mr. Oler, The RCC is not tiles. Your comments would be more credible if you evidenced any knowledge of the shuttle. Don't get your info from Wikipedia....

• Commented on Huntsville Constellation Layoff Update

  It bugs me that guys like you have it exactly backwards - we don't like Shuttle because it's our job. Actually, our job is Shuttle because we like it. We had plenty of other opportunities over the years and opted...

• Commented on Falcon 9 Launch Totally Successful

  Congratulations to the Space X ops team for resolving all countdown issues and launching within the window. I will be fascinated to hear the explanation of the 2nd stage roll rate....

• Commented on More Money For Laid Off KSC Workers

  I eagerly await hearing from the administration with their extra help for shuttle workers in Texas, Utah, and Louisiana....(cue sound of crickets....)...

• Commented on There Are Several Reasons Not To Fly Any More Ares

  And the SSMEs emit water into the atmosphere!!! Water, a known killer which can drown you!!! Stop all spaceflight and technology immediately, squatting in caves is much greener....

• Commented on Hearing Reaction

  I am sure Obama has a better feel for SpaceX's technical capabilities than Gene Cernan, since he walked around their launch site and Cernan didn't....

• Commented on Bolden Update Today

  Here's the elevator version: Civil servants, fall in line and salute. Contractors, we feel your pain....

• Commented on Space Flyby Media Opportunities

  He will beam his magic waves over the audience and we will all fall in line....

• Commented on Details of Presidential Space Flyby Continue to Emerge

  He won't bunny up. John Kerry made that mistake....

• Commented on Looking Backward - Not Forward

  I think it's fair to say that Aries 1 slips are not solely due to underfunding. Unless "underfunding" is defined to mean "extra money to fix the original design when it became clear that it would not work."...

• Commented on DIRECT Evangelistas Just Won't Give Up

  Constantly referring to him as a "fan boy" rather than, for instance, an "advocate" seems inconsistent with your earlier call for us all to just get along....

• Commented on Space Policy and Election 2012

  Texas's economy is a drag on the rest of the nations'? Now THERE's an informed post. Texas has the world's 12th largest economy....

• Commented on Robert McCall

  His work is ubiquitous at JSC; he's the original designer of the MOD logo. And a framed poster he did is hanging on my wall. A visionary who will be greatly missed....

• Commented on Acts of Desperation

  I'm pretty sure the water system was installed after STS-1, not 51-L. IFRC it was ignition overpressure that buckled a strut in the forward RCS pod on STS-1, not higher than expected acceleration. I'm not arguing for first stage solid...

• Commented on Human Rating A Spacecraft

  This applies to STS-107 as well. Wayne Hale himself tried at least twice to get authorization for the DOD to image the orbiter prior to entry. Space Shuttle Program management stopped him. It's all in the CAIB report....

• Commented on NASA Still Can't Get That Metric Stuff Right

  He likes Avatar!...

• Commented on Bolden Responds To Congress over Constellation Actions

  Thanks to Orion1 for posting the letter. Administrator Bolden's remarks seem a bit ... disingenuous... when he states that nothing has been canceled, it is only being studied. @KSC, was not the EGLS contract competition cancelled? @JSC, were MOD Cx...

• Commented on You Know You Messaging Plan Is Not Working When ...

  @zapkitty: I am surprised to hear that "there is massive and bulky" GSE "built into the launch pad" for the SSME. I am pretty sure the SSMEs start with just head pressure from the ET and their built in augmented...

• Commented on You Know You Messaging Plan Is Not Working When ...

  Has anyone seen documentation as to exactly why SSME airstart was unworkable? It seems to me that was the decision that sent Aries 1 (and therefore Cx) into its death spiral. One would have thought that the "engineer's engineer" would...

• Commented on You Know You Messaging Plan Is Not Working When ...

  Mismanagement in the X-33 Shuttle successor program resulted in the subsequent end of the program. Mismanagement in the Space Shuttle Program resulted in the loss of the STS-107 vehicle and crew, and the subsequent end of the program. Mismanagement in...

• Commented on NASA: Less Money, New Direction?

  Possum is right and not only about the hardware. We are throwing away the hard learned ops lessons of Shuttle...