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• Commented on Time Magazine's Best Invention of the Year

  Sad commentary on the state of our populist 'journalism'. All Ares-1x proved was that the regular STS SRB works, Atlas avionics work, SRB parachutes work, boats retrieving this crap from the ocean work, the crawlers made 40 years ago work....

• Commented on Senate Votes To Restore NASA Budget Cuts

  Bad news then, possum. Freaking bloodsuckers, ah? NASA should be terminated for the stunt it tried to pull with the Ares - 1X PR...

• Commented on Senate Votes To Restore NASA Budget Cuts

  Too many billions, too little oversight... Still, it is just authorization, not appropriation... thank God for that process. I hope NASA never sees this increase. Its HSF does NOT deserve it....

• Commented on Ares 1-X Launched

  How many times does it have to be told that Ares X has nothing to do with Ares1? This is a ridiculous contraption with a bunch of cheap made dummies on top of the OFF THE SHELF SBR that was...

• Commented on Ares 1-X Launch Scrubbed

  What a ridiculous contraption. What a ridiculous goal (to demonstrate ESAS 'progress'). What a waste of my tax dollars....

• Commented on Media Reaction To Augustine Report

  KC, Chronically underfunded? You've got to be kidding me. The ESMD budget has been over funded for the trivial things they do. They are just incompetent with the money they are give. Frank, No, I utterly reject the notion that...

• Commented on Media Reaction To Augustine Report

  So, basically NASA (and its associated brats in the Capitol) is on its knees begging for more money from the President. Got it. It's not their fault that they sqandered 5 years and a bunch of money money stacking cardboard...

• Commented on Nervous In Huntsville

  Jeebus on a skateboard, can't anyone with any average brain and a bit of balls nowdays just cancel this idiotic Ares boondoggle? And I mean both A1/A5. They both suck. This thing needs to be strangled in the cradle. Or...

• Commented on Sean O'Keefe's New Job, New Portrait

  Deriding one of the best managers NASA has ever had as a 'bean counter' will get you nowhere. NASA needs Bean Counters. Now more than ever. The taxpayers demand that. The President demands that. Eagle, a "bean counter" is NOT...

• Commented on Sean O'Keefe's New Job, New Portrait

  A wise man, that. Was brought in to get NASA's budgeting mess under control. Guided NASA through after the tragedy. Understood the respect he needed to have for the budget money, and tried to be prudent with the agency's budget....

• Commented on Rolling Out Ares 1-X

  MikeHilton, since you addressed me: --------------------------------- What are the objectives of this launch of a bunch of mock-ups stacked on top of an off the shelf STS SRB after 4+ years and a lot of money, again? And how does...

• Commented on Norm Will Deliver On Thursday

  I *was* disappointed by the NASA line pulling summary and the "we need 3 billion more to do *anything*" line, but hey, can't have everything. I hope this comission's insights will be taken more seriously than the other ..... one*S*...

• Commented on Going To Mars - To Stay

  Heinrich: "The reason people explore is because it makes them more valuable to humanity" Sure, if they do it on their own or their donors' raised dime. Just like explorers did in the past. Otherwise, it is called having personal...

• Commented on Rolling Out Ares 1-X

  What are the objectives of this launch of a bunch of mock-ups stacked on top of an off the shelf STS SRB after 4+ years and a lot of money, again? And how does it relate to Ares-1, other than...

• Commented on EELVs are Not "Dead" As A Crew Launch Option

  So, is Ares 5 'Lite' still 'heavy lift' in NASA's nomenclature? Or perhaps 'medium heavy'? And why aren't EELVs 'man rated'? STS, Soyuz, or the Ares1 with all its wavers are not 'man rated' by NASA either. They do have...

• Commented on Tell Us What You Really Think, Jeff

  ThinkTwice: "No other design is even close to providing the capabilities of Ares. Jeff Hanley is right. Mike Griffin is right." This sentiment which I've heard from others in the Constellation is counterproductive and abortive to the discussion of policy...

• Commented on Full Text of Jeff Hanley's Latest Rant

  The US manned space exploration has been, and is being funded as we speak. Appropriately. Perhaps even OVER funded for the benefits gained to the taxpayer. It is outrageous that the mock demonstration of the 'next NASA manned launch system'...

• Commented on Full Text of Jeff Hanley's Latest Rant

  Can anyone (Jim?) list operational launch systems Mr. Hanley led from design to realization/production? That would certainly add some meat to the generic platitudes about his authority on the subject expressed in some posts here, no? He came to Constellation...