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• Commented on Farewell (Again) Constellation, Welcome Back Orion

  Keith, At first I thought the exact same thing on the LA Times article. I didn't even understand what they were talking about until I read that it was sized for Altair, and then the "even without Altair this will...

• Commented on Is NASA Advertising Allowed or Prohibited?

  I always thought NASA should be allowed to have TV commercials like the Army and Marines, etc. I like the Army's (I think? Was it Air force?) commercial starting like a sci-fi flick and then flipping to "actual" shots. IIRC,...

• Commented on The Grand Master of Foot-In-Mouth Speaks

  He isn't solely attacking his direct successor, but rather the administration instead. He is defending Bolden if anything: For all his unhappiness with the new policy, Griffin says blame for the situation does not belong with NASA administrator Charles Bolden,...

• Commented on Space Station Freedom Deja Vu All Over Again

  I am a young engineer in my 20's (Orion, Predator UAV) and HSF was my dream. My parents met working Apollo, and I wanted more than anything to be a part of that. I was about to quit college until...

• Commented on Building Orion

  tinker, I don't think its just the LAS, they have also stated the need to add in D&C components in order to satisfy crew "concerns". From Oct 09' "We're, of course, trying to allay some of those concerns," says Bowersox,...

• Commented on Building Orion

  Where is the manned capsule? The last statement I saw regarding manned Dragon, they were talking about the need to add displays, controls, LAS, ECLSS, etc. and the like. Also, the president of SpaceX fairly recently testified that they would...

• Commented on Building Orion

  What did I accuse you of? I said that I think its a joke, since there is no proof being laid on the table. So fars it is all speculation and hear say. You two are the ones attacking without...

• Commented on Building Orion

  I love SpaceX, I hate Elon. His (and Keith's) latest attempts to attack the character of Neil Armstrong is a [DELETED] joke. Elon demotes him to a "test pilot" and nothing more. He then goes on about how Buzz has...

• Commented on Building Orion

  CEV and Dragon are two separate beasts. One is CURRENTLY being built for deep space missions, which requires harder requirements to meet than that of a taxi. The other is a LEO space taxi, which it is a fine design...

• Commented on Constellation Stakes Are Being Raised

  Unfortunately, "will soon be"....has already happened....

• Commented on More Bad PR For The Obama Space Plan

  I don't think we even need an official statement from Bohdan Bejmuk, his comments during the Augustine meetings speak for themselves IMO: (my emphasis) http://www.nasa.gov/382774main_081209_DC_Transcript.txt So you actually destroy part of NASA, you give it to the guys who today...

• Commented on No Hot Meals at GSFC

  "(And lunch is the kind of thing they should be outsourcing...) Sigh...." From the snippet: " These closings are based on the cafeteria contractors failure to pass their most recent food safety inspections" ??? its not like they have civil...

• Commented on Orion Launch Abort System Funding Halt

  This is more than likley due to FY10 and FY11 NASA driven funding cap. LM is given the cap, and they decide what to defer....

• Commented on Aldrin Is Buzzing Today

  Can't have it both ways. You lecture about unwritten rules when regards to Griffin, yet when it comes to somebody else we just need to suck it up. If Bolden\Garver can't stand the heat.... Your comments are disgusting in my...

• Commented on Apollo Veterans (And Mike Griffin) Plead Their Case

  "NASA has about the same budget today as it did in the 1960's" Huh? The averaged NASA budget in from 1960-1969 is $22.22 Billion (in 2007 dollars), and the average from 2000-2009 was $15.9. The peak year was 1965 with...

• Commented on The News Is Not Bad Everywhere

  "The bad news is at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) formerly known as the Manned Space Center (MSC)." Johnson's original name was the Manned Spacecraft Center. It was all about designing, developing and building manned spacecraft. So if the goal...

• Commented on Fake Emails - Not A Good Sign (update)

  Someone is abusing the GoBoldy site it seems. A friend of mine is getting these responses too, and he never sent anything. I wonder if someone is using the NASA global to get peoples names and then using them on...

• Commented on Mike Griffin Update

  You realize this is an interview right? He shouldn't be able to answer the questions if he is against he plan? He should answer them "by proxy"? I can't help but laugh at the suggestion that he should have to...

• Commented on Buzz Aldrin's Take On What Needs to be Done - Update

  Part of Aldrin's plan is not entirely clear to me. IIRC, his latest plan that I saw (the one in the This Week In Space March 6th interview) calls for a modified Orion for crew transport, in addition to a...

• Commented on This Week in Space 12 March 2010

  Agreed. My overall point was that you can still get all he provides for free, so there is little room to complain here IMO. I also encourage donating!...

• Commented on This Week in Space 12 March 2010

  Yeah, I don't even agree with a lot his views on the new budget\plan but I think he does a great job here. He does a good job at not injecting his opinion all over the place and providing unbiased...

• Commented on A HotFire for Falcon 9

  If this were an Orion\Ares failure we would have 5-6 articles about it here already... Anyways, good luck to SpaceX on the future firings and launch!...

• Commented on Orion Under Siege

  Bolden announced it himself on the telecon when the budget was released. @ 9:04 http://www.nasa.gov/mp3/421316main_2010-02-01_FY2011_Budget_teleconference.mp3...

• Commented on Orion Under Siege

  So why are we canceling Orion when NONE of the Augustine options called for it to be canceled? Read the chart that has the "elements" of each option - it has Orion is every single one....

• Commented on In The End Its Only About Jobs, Right?

  Yes, that statement (which is pretty open for interpretations) is in NASA's charter. I was asking more of why is it there. I feel combating global warming (a phenomena in the atmosphere I suppose) suits the nation’s oceanic and atmospheric...

• Commented on In The End Its Only About Jobs, Right?

  "False. Commercial sats do not have the necessary instrumentation." Well no, they don't. Not right now at least. CCDev cannot currently send people into orbit either, but they will be able to for the reasons you stated above - a...

• Commented on In The End Its Only About Jobs, Right?

  So, is it in your view that it is not the funding source that defines a welfare engineer, but the program he\she works on? If a CxP engineer works for the same company, but switches to a new government funded...

• Commented on Detailed NASA Budget Materials Now Online

  I agree, and I remain hopeful that those types of actions is what will happen. But the word dispose was also used, so I fear it could be that as well. I just hope not....

• Commented on In The End Its Only About Jobs, Right?

  I love how some people assert that a CxP engineer is on welfare, but any other contractor being paid by NASA is not. You never addressed whether a SpaceX engineer (just an example) is on welfare if its capsule is...

• Commented on Detailed NASA Budget Materials Now Online

  This snippet bothers me: "The Flight and Ground Operations budget for T&R includes resources needed to identify, process, safe, and transfer flight and ground assets once they are no longer needed for safe SSP mission execution. The T&R budget includes...