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• Commented on NASA New Vision Statement - Not so Popular

  Can NASA move it’s blooming arse beyond slogans? How about NASA the Opera while we’re waiting? “My Fair NASA” Words! Words! Words! We’re so sick of words! We get words all day through; First from NASA, now from you! Is...

• Commented on 25th Anniversary For Challenger Center

  Thank you Keith. All you've put up on your site for our review and remembrance is very special and much appreciated....

• Commented on James Hansen Continues To Have Special Privileges

  Maybe because "global warming" borders on religious zealotry? "Creation Care for Pastors--Evangelicals & Scientists United to Protect Creation"Have you seen who's on the Creation Care for Pastor's Science Advisory Committee besides James Hansen?...

• Commented on NASA is Adrift Once Again

  "Smoke and mirrors", "rearranging the deck chairs", "the more things change the more they remain the same" - pick your favorite phrase. NASA is adrift once again and all they can manage to do is have everyone in the boat...

• Commented on Nelson Slams Obama - and NASA Is In The Mix

  ....The President plans to skip a return to the Moon for the forseeable future, though I think you're forseeing farther than he is! He's not putting it on the front burner because just going back isn't the challenge that it...

• Commented on China's Space Station (Update)

  In reality, with a 90% tax rate, a business owner has a choice between investing $10 in his company or taking home $1. That's one of the reasons industrial growth was so rapid during the 50's and 60's. During the...

• Commented on Project M: Why is JSC Doing This?

  Moon movies on the horizon? Doug Liman's Untitled Moon Project Still Actively Developing? [Excerpt] "Though we'd previously hear that director Doug Liman (Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Jumper) was in the running to direct an adaptation of Hiroshi Sakurazaka's time travel...

• Commented on China's Space Station (Update)

  Rare earths are available in many parts of the world. The reason China has cornered the market is that their mining costs are lower. Without fully reusable launch systems that can reduce launch costs to a small fraction of the...

• Commented on China's Space Station (Update)

  Once the U.S. government relaxes their rules and regulations over commercial investments -- lowers punitive taxation on businesses and commercial innovation -- companies (jobs and economic bounty) will return. Unfortunately, as it stands now, companies need to go hat in...

• Commented on China's Space Station (Update)

  Question: Is NASA's ARTEMIS Moon mission working in tandem with Chang'e 2? Perhaps someone with more information could explain NASA Administrator Charles Bolden's comment after his recent trip to China, that he hadn't discussed any "specific proposals for future cooperation."...

• Commented on Surface Water Found On Mars?

  Maybe we should put a couple of these rovers on the Moon....

• Commented on China's Space Station (Update)

  While browsing the latest space news this morning I saw the latest on NASA's ARTEMIS mission and their planned tandem work with current missions, including Chang'e 2: ARTEMIS Lunar Probes to Study Moon [Excerpt] Launched in 2007, NASA's five THEMIS...

• Commented on The Moon Is Full of Useful Stuff - Let's Go Use It

  You ask: "It still doesn't answer the question for the bulk of policy makers of "What's in it for us right now?"." If one can not see how we have benefited from pushing technology in our drive to access space,...

• Commented on Bolden Drops Off Of Radar Screen - Again

  China is flexing their massive economic power and “banker to the world” position to influence global affairs. If we sit back and let them lead the way back to the Moon, they will have shown the world they are the...

• Commented on Bolden Drops Off Of Radar Screen - Again

  June 25, 2010 Buzz Aldrin said we should trade our knowledge about getting to the Moon with China for fuel they'll mine from lunar resources, "to help us get where we want to go," which I gather is Mars. So...

• Commented on Buzz Was Against a Moon Base Before He Was For It

  Buzz Aldrin, June 25, 2010: [excerpt] (Aldrin)Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that’s empty and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should...

• Commented on Gordon Responds to Hubbard et al

  What makes you think the vision is anything other than science fiction? Congress has not and will not pay for it. I'm sure a lot of people characterized the Vision as "science fiction" even before the print was dry. Congress...

• Commented on Gordon Responds to Hubbard et al

  As has been said before, "Could of, would of, should of." What makes you think they will honor it now, when they did all they could to erase it from the mission planning whiteboard?...

• Commented on Gordon Responds to Hubbard et al

  The Vision was NOT the same as ESAS. Despite many stupid things said by the President and (sadly) Administrator Bolden, the potential is there for NASA to still honor the Vision by using the Obama 2011 budget to explore....

• Commented on Gordon Responds to Hubbard et al

  And it turned out that *no* realistic budget scenario allowed for Ares 1 to be ready before ISS was going to be retired. Nor did Constellation produce better exploration results. And no other architecture scenario you can think of or...

• Commented on Gordon Responds to Hubbard et al

  Forgive me RC for having the audacity to wonder how sound decisions can be made if they are based on questionable data. I have never claimed to be an expert. How can anyone make a point if they're shouted down...

• Commented on Gordon Responds to Hubbard et al

  My point? I believe Aerospace Corporation explains quite clearly how they were hamstrung (my word) while charged with giving technical analysis to the Augustine Committee -- given the limited time they had to respond, as well as not being participants...

• Commented on Gordon Responds to Hubbard et al

  Chairman Gordon noted in his letter: “This conclusion was not reached in haste and was based upon several months of hearing from expert witnesses. Moreover, the Committee received a letter (attached) earlier this year by the Aerospace Corporation in response...

• Commented on Buzz Says Send English Speakers to Mars

  I must believe then he's ok with everyone else going to the Moon -- just not the U.S. [From the article] "Aldrin, 80, said Nasa astronauts should not be sent back to the moon." Will Canadians feel slighted after being...

• Commented on Learning From The Past

  Thank you for a thought provoking and timely (it never seems to be out of vogue, much as others would wish it to be so). Your essay brought to mind a piece written in 2007 and published in Astropolotics. VIEWPOINT:...

• Commented on Seeing The Moon As A Resource

  Your "analysis" of the link I posted is precisely why I posted the link. Readers can go there and take a few minutes to follow the reasons why I believe there is a compelling reason for lunar return. Rather than...

• Commented on Seeing The Moon As A Resource

  "......What is the compelling reason for taxpayers to pay for this?" http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1376...

• Commented on NASA Assists Trapped Miners in Chile

  It's difficult to mentally or physically put oneself into the situation these men are facing. It's something they knew could happen but went into the mines in spite of that for economic reasons. Now that they're isolated for what some...

• Commented on Bolden Is Operating In Cloaked Mode These Days (Update)

  NASA Administrator to Speak at the Space Generation Congress 2010 The head of NASA will deliver the closing speech to the university student and young professional attendees of SGC 2010, the only international conference dedicated to the next generation of...

• Commented on Keeping Our Eyes On The Prize

  ....Almost trivial subject matter in the big scheme of things, but the story was so effectively told that we really CARED about what was happening because we had been drawn in were emotionally connected to the characters and what THEY...