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• kscurry76 commented on TEDxNASA: Where's The Space Stuff?
  With regards to the Pritchard video on water, that is one I posted to my own blog about two months ago. Why? Because when it comes to water, a pint is a pound the world around. Any water that can be recovered, recycled and reused in space is water that does not have to be hauled up from earth....

• albertoconti commented on TEDxNASA: Details Revealed
  I was a TEDx NASA today. I posted my comments on a discussion board on the TEDx NASA facebook group. Inviting Sue Morter and giving her credibility in such a forum was big mistake. http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=10926&uid=94340099518...

• A_M_Swallow commented on Pad Abort 1 Test Successful
  You are running into the difference between price and cost. The successful outfeeds have to pay for everything else. For instance a completed launch pad only counts as successful if it launches things....

• Mike Hilton commented on Pad Abort 1 Test Successful
  Huh? Your assertion doesn't change the fact that approximately $10B (if to be believed) has been spent so far. All of the things (not all by any stretch) that I've mentioned have been paid for out of that sum. As to success vs price. The engineering and construction of any item can be deemed successful regardless of price and cost in the strictest sense EVEN THOUGH it was abandoned. Is the new MLP for Ares a successful system? Who knows. Was it successfully designed and successfully built? Yes and its costs were paid. These government systems as well as the...

• ex_navy commented on Pad Abort 1 Test Successful
  About 16gs while the rocket fires. Same range as the Soyuz LAS and the Apollo one. Don't know about the 180 degree maneuver but I wouold guess it is less with the maneuvering and seperation motors firing....