Mike Hilton

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• Commented on Should Congress Design the Next Big Booster?

  I never claimed to be the Supreme Court so I don't really see how that charge has any validity here. As to the charge that I "can't just tell you that you are wrong and that's the end of it",...

• Commented on Should Congress Design the Next Big Booster?

  Several people tell you that your understanding of the Constitution and the functions of the branches of government is flawed and you "think" that enumerating your points and simply rephrasing your "reasoning" will change the minds of those that are...

• Commented on Should Congress Design the Next Big Booster?

  Sorry, as someone rightfully posted, your understanding of the Constitution and the concept of the "separation of powers" is seriously flawed. Your example proceeds from a false premise. Congress doesn't have to fund anything that it doesn't want, of that...

• Commented on Should Congress Design the Next Big Booster?

  Your answer is found in the Constitution....

• Commented on Details Emerge on Criminal Activity by Courtney Stadd and Liam Sarsfield

  Did you hurt yourself with that performance of moral relativistic gymnastics? Unbelievable, but I will give you a seven even though it's mostly based on style points....

• Commented on Courtney Stadd Joins Liam Sarsfield In Pleading Guilty

  "netting himself about $270,000 in illegal profits." "Faithful public service"?????. More like faithful self service. I hope he gets the maximum sentence allowed by law for ripping off and violating the trust of the taxpayers. How anyone can excuse and...

• Commented on NASA IT Summit Day 1

  Another waste of taxpayer funds by an agency that has no direction. Only self absorbed navel gazing while hoping that no one notices that it is not space exploration or aeronautical research. Time to pull the plug....

• Commented on EVA Plans Hit A Snag

  ISS is just fine if you don't want to go anywhere while eating tons of tax money. Glad to see we agree that the ISS is a white elephant though....

• Commented on EVA Plans Hit A Snag

  Nothing can justify its costs. It remains a sinkhole on the path to the moon and Mars....

• Commented on NASA Is Interested In Commercial Lunar Missions

  I've always been on topic. Money to realize a more sustainable wheel? Well, more power and money to them. But that is not what the request is about. I remind you the story said: "NASA has issued a Broad Agency...

• Commented on NASA Is Interested In Commercial Lunar Missions

  What? How about the expensive data from the Apollo lunar landings and ops as well as the Mars Pathfinder and Exploration Rovers? Don't the Russians have some data from their Lunokhod rover vehicles? Seems like money to reinvent the wheel....

• Commented on NASA Is Interested In Commercial Lunar Missions

  Why? We've already been there....

• Commented on Wayne Hale's New Job

  Godspeed Mr. Hale....

• Commented on Obama and Glenn Meet To Talk Space

  I'm glad that you are so close to the former Senator that you know exactly what he meant. The point is there was a gap and it is improper and wrong to contend that it wasn't. The one we have...

• Commented on Obama and Glenn Meet To Talk Space

  I guess advice from the right hero trumps truth from mere mortals. By the way the hero got it wrong....the Apollo/STS "gap" comes to mind....

• Commented on NASA Reauthorization Bill Provides ATK with a Glimmer of Hope

  Then I guess you were ecstatic on January 28, 1986....

• Commented on NASA Reauthorization Bill Provides ATK with a Glimmer of Hope

  Gotta love that R&D stuff........

• Commented on New NASA Online Game Snubs Macs And Other Operating Systems

  Well, if we've already been to the moon then why isn't this application concentrating on going and working on Mars or an asteroid? At least we can pretend to go somewhere while stuck in LEO.....thirty eight years and this is...

• Commented on White House Responds To Congress on FY 2011 Budget

  JFK in 1961: Go to the moon in a spacecraft not yet designed aboard a rocket not yet invented using materials and alloys that don't yet exist navigating thru space using technologies unproven. Sounds like Obama's approach is rooted in...

• Commented on Why Isn't The Rest Of America Upset About This?

  The good Lord not withstanding, you need to lighten up on your hatred of all things Griffin. Besides I for one have stated that its the politicians that are at fault for the last 40 sorry years. When politicians become...

• Commented on Why Isn't The Rest Of America Upset About This?

  Disagree? Absolutely, no harm no foul. My bashing of fellow citizens? Debatable but not important to the question posed by Keith in this thread. I do not disagree with Marburger's assertions only in how the general public perceived it's importance....

• Commented on Why Isn't The Rest Of America Upset About This?

  Dennis, your original posit was.....the ESAS implementation of the Vision for Space Exploration eliminated the things that would make it relevant to the American people. While ESAS implementation the way it occurred may have made the Vision irrelevant to the...

• Commented on Why Isn't The Rest Of America Upset About This?

  Dennis, I enjoy most of your insights made in your posts but I do believe that your postulate concerning the relation of ESAS implementation to irrelevancy to the American people is a bit of a stretch. I do agree that...

• Commented on Building Orion

  Frank, you are correct in your assertions BUT as others have commented, comparing Orion to Dragon is at best apples and oranges, at worst disingenuous. By the way Orion and Ares are sustainable IF funded as the Augustine report stated...

• Commented on Falcon 9 Nails Orbit - First Stage Slams Hard into Atlantic

  Quit kidding yourself "punder", using any taxpayer funds precludes (by definition) this being labeled a "private approach". Congratulations SpaceX....

• Commented on Falcon 9 Nails Orbit - First Stage Slams Hard into Atlantic

  So "possum" that $278M has just been sitting in an Elon Musk/SpaceX bank account since 2006? Yeah, right....

• Commented on Falcon 9 Nails Orbit - First Stage Slams Hard into Atlantic

  No the trick of the Wrights was, according to Wikipedia, "with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight". While SpaceX is to be commended for the great Falcon...

• Commented on Falcon 9 Launch Totally Successful

  No, we can't put a man on the moon. Haven't been able to since the last one in 1972. You remember all that damn "spam can and old geezer" technology? Besides we've been there and done that and no reason...

• Commented on Falcon 9 Nails Orbit - First Stage Slams Hard into Atlantic

  "With regard to government funding, this was not a COTS flight. It was on SpaceX's dime (and they hired ULA to operate the recovery ship)." Hummmm..according to Mark Wade at Encyclopedia Astronautica... "In September 2006 SpaceX was named as one...

• Commented on Falcon 9 Nails Orbit - First Stage Slams Hard into Atlantic

  "the equivalent of the Wright Brothers on Kitty Hawk." You're joking right? I don't recall that Orville and Wilbur used a government subsidy to develop their "flyer". Besides this is not the first successful launch of a liquid fueled rocket...