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• Commented on Coronal Mass Ejection Heading Toward Earth (With Video)

  Right - this does not seem to be major event. Might make some pretty lights for people up north but that's about it....

• Commented on GAO Sides With NASA on Constellation Decisions

  Perhaps you misunderstood Jason - GAO is an agency run by Congress not NASA....

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

  You can decry the use of the space program as a political tool - but you're, oh, about 53 years too late. Sputnik? Space Race? Does that ring a bell?...

• Commented on Has China Been Formally Invited to Join the ISS Program? (Another Update)

  The Shuttle is GONE man - let it go!...

• Commented on John Glenn Pushes for Shuttle Extension

  I'm surprised Glenn said this. Isn't there a minimum of a TWO YEAR wait to restart manufacturing of shuttle external tanks? You'd still be paying the Russians to get astronauts up to ISS. Who is going to go to Congress...

• Commented on John Glenn Pushes for Shuttle Extension

  Jim - um no, that's wrong. NASA can't buy what doesn't exist yet. They need a working spacecraft NOW. The commercial vehicles under development aren't ready yet....

• Commented on Oil Trumps Space (Update)

  Build on what we have - its the same old saw. Shuttle is *gone* man - gone two years ago....

• Commented on Oil Trumps Space (Update)

  "The tens of thousands of lay-offs right now just makes the financial situation worse for a bunch of people." True, however there are 15 *million* people out of work. This is disastrous for the space coast but unfortunately only blip...

• Commented on Space Station Freedom Deja Vu All Over Again

  "You have, in this article, given two wonderful examples of neat, groundbreaking programs initiated by republican presidents that have been started and were well underway, then cut to ribbons along with all of those jobs (and each one is a...

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

  Aside from noxious chemicals, SRBs have a number of other disadvantages, lower performance compared to liquid fueled rockets. 'Political correctness' has nothing to do with it - you are releasing a fairly noxious mix of chemicals over a populated area...

• Commented on Eating Dogs in Space

  I have the Laika special please....

• Commented on More Shuttle Flights? Just Send Money

  Isn't this article completely wrong? Sure some additional money would keep the program running - but only until the available parts run out! This article seems to imply that we can keep the shuttles flying indefinitely, only more cash is...

• Commented on Orion Under Siege

  "We have to take risk to keep our crown." As in the emperor has no clothes? Even if you could, continuing to launch minimally crewed shuttles would be an incredible waste of resources - and IMHO so pathetic as to...

• Commented on Building a True Spaceship

  Nice try Buzz...but the weak link: the shuttle program is dead and it's not coming back....

• Commented on Orion Under Siege

  I find it hard to muster much sympathy for Orion. What was supposed to be Apollo on steroids is now some sort of "American Soyuz". Orion has now lost half its crew and how much cargo carrying capacity does it...

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

  It's really a shame we didn't just take the plunge in the 1970s. Converting to different units is best done quickly - like ripping off a band aid. People would have complained but eventually would have gotten used to it....

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

  Yes sorry perhaps a poor choice of 'nickname'. Matt's response was for me. I was not aware CubeSat was an existing program. Still it ticks me off when NASA announces deadlines for projects and programs and grant opportunities which have...

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

  That really pisses me off...really does make me angry! NASA hasn't set deadline or a target for their programs but they give educational organizations and non-profits less than 60 days to come up with an idea and $30,000 for a...

• Commented on Fact Checking on Campaign Promises

  "...endorse the goal of sending human missions to the Moon by 2020" If you consider that we were not going to make it to the Moon by 2020 no matter how much money you appropriated to NASA, it's hard to...

• Commented on Space Policy: Lack of Details and Lots of Differing Opinions

  If Constellation had continued, does anyone think it was realistic to assume, in this economy, Congress would have approved and extra $3+ billion a year to accelerate Ares V development such that a moon mission would be possible by 2020...

• Commented on Space Policy: Lack of Details and Lots of Differing Opinions

  When your leaky boat and finally starts sinking, you don't stop to draw up blueprints for a replacement boat!...

• Commented on China's Lunar Ambitions

  "There is Obama's legacy, which is Chinese walking on the moon. Thanks for handing over our space program." Don't bullsh*t us. Obama's plan for space program is not ideal, but it's very flattering how rabid Obama-haters keep assigning him super...

• Commented on Erasing History - Not An Easy Task

  "Come on, even the usually ineffective Bush administration got something’s right." Which part? The part where he proposed a huge exploration program and then knifed it in back? Or perhaps the part where the Orion capsule was too heavy to...

• Commented on Budget Summary: Constellation Is Cancelled Outright

  One could have hoped for a better, more visionary plan for space exploration. But, "Obama has gutted US manned space flight!"? No: Constellation committed suicide!...

• Commented on More Sour Grapes From Scott Horowitz

  LOL! Constellation was not killed by a blog! While that's very flattering for Keith....Constellation collapsed under its own weight....

• Commented on No ESAS-2 Needed

  Depending on the timeline - I'm open to it...imagine manned missions to asteroids - or astronauts walking on the surface of a comet (Armageddon-style). That could be pretty cool. Not as cool as walking on Mars but at least it...

• Commented on Is Constellation Dead?

  "One reason, some observers speculated this week, is to reward contributors to the president's election campaign." On come on - that's ridiculous! That's not even speculation - that's outright fiction!...

• Commented on There Is More To All Of This. $5.9 Billion More.

  "Bush put us back on course at least" What an enormous crock - Bush sent NASA sailing off on ship with no rudder, no sails and a leaking hull!...

• Commented on Going In Circles Again: America Will Abandon Human Lunar Exploration - And Much More

  "This outcome is what everyone, everyone should have expected from an urban, liberal Democrat..." What a completely false, ridiculous statement. Fact is, as has been mentioned many times here, VSE has been underfunded since the beginning even though conservatives controlled...

• Commented on The Ares 1 Cancellation Backlash Begins - Before It Is Even Announced

  The news coming out now about Obama's state of the union speech is looking pretty grim. It apparently contains a proposal for freezing *all* non-defense federal funding for the next three years. The future for any launcher, Ares variant or...