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• Commented on Dear Mike: Think Before You Gossip

  Dear Oh Dear, the people we put into important positions that time after time prove themselves unfit to hold that office. Add this little ding dong to the smell of putrefying corruption viz-a-viz ATK along with Horowitz who kept the...

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

  Unfortunately, they're on the cleft stick of having to admit that ARES design and "development" was a grossly expensive mistake. Worse "backroom boys" joining with "rank amateurs", came up with a better and cheaper solution. I see a closing of...

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

  EXCELLENT Anne! thanks for sharing that. Now, let's see how many actually resign......

• Commented on And Now A Word From The Lunatic Fringe

  In other words, qualified but not in the aerospace field except in the most detailed and specialist fashion. Considering the level of education - and one would assume erudition - an incredibly irrational commentary: clearly dedicated to scaring the less...

• Commented on Details of Presidential Space Flyby Continue to Emerge

  Ergo: ...things will be as already described;take your pink slips and let the Time Servers I/C get on with: "make it look like your doing something, when in truth you're doing nothing at all". Classic Clinton stuff......

• Commented on Save Constellation Effort Losing Steam?

  Well Ben, since PWR has(or should have!) the documentation for their own TR-107 and Rocketdyne's RS-84 re-usable 1Mlb class engines, there's no reason why those can't be resurrected in throw-away form. while they are at it they can ditch J-2'hevy'!...

• Commented on Is A Human Space Flight Compromise Emerging?

  "Except that with lunar ISRU, you never need to build anything beyond Shuttle C and the next generation beyond that is an RLV due to the flight rate demand." How do you know that? Look at ARES V which soon...

• Commented on Is A Human Space Flight Compromise Emerging?

  "DIRECT and other "inline" shuttle-derived concepts are no longer being given serious consideration. With specific regard to DIRECT, despite their voluminous and detailed claims, the costs that they depend upon to make their case are simply incorrect and not credible...

• Commented on Government Vs Commercial Astronauts

  "NASA administrator and former astronaut Charlie Bolden talked about that... "We need to have the discussion of how important is it to have a career astronaut contingent, as opposed to none," Bolden said. He said that NASA's international partners like...

• Commented on Video: Neil deGrasse Tyson on What NASA Means to America's Future

  "...we're definitely better than that..." Very self-congratulatory. Unfortunately we can't keep to budget or timeframes - which sets up the cancellation M.O for politicians that don't want to continue what their predecessor had begun. Rather belies the statement IMO....

• Commented on Video: Neil deGrasse Tyson on What NASA Means to America's Future

  "...1/2 a penny on the Dollar..." SO WELL put! Dirt cheap in other words. To think that had NLS'92/DIRECT been the POR to begin with, we'd be on our way out of LEO W/O a budget increase... De Grasse should...

• Commented on OSTP Space Conference: Ignoring the Locals

  It's more of a hiatus; while we wait until the rehashed - how many times since 1958 - research comes up with "newtech" LV's. These are supposedly liquid-based and will not be hardware until at least 2020. Time enough for...

• Commented on Mike Griffin Update

  Coming from this man - and we mustn't forget his oppo: Horowitz - who engendered the current situation by choosing totally the wrong vehicle package at the behest of a greedy Contractor- ATK-I find this something of a joke: and...

• Commented on Climate Change Deniers Are Inventing a New Scandal

  Well Duh! The inability(or more likely, unwillingness) of GW/CC pundits to monitor local and short-term climate patterns & variations accurately, has REALLY helped here; postulation and predictions being consistantly presented as facts etc. For example i discovered that there has...

• Commented on Leadership, Vision, and Space Exploration

  quite impressive relating to generation and control of produced power, but little beyond an ION/MHD type power transfer and conversion to Rocket thrust. Is there sufficient Ve and appropriate MR for Earth-Escape trajectories? At 2G constant acceleration, one can expect...

• Commented on NASA To Participate in Toyota Accelerator Probe

  Don't forget that TWA800 WAS at least aerospace related. Incompetent/GRQ driving and automotive electro-mechanical device deficiencies are not. Is this what garver meant I wonder? Wouldn't be surprised......

• Commented on Ares: Obsolete, and Cancelled, Prior to Birth

  Sad that in the analysis, that's all we did the first time. If we were less obsessed with just winning......

• Commented on One Sided Arm Waving Over SRMs by Rep. Bishop

  "I find it to be a little strange that the other major U.S. manufacturer of SRMs, Aerojet, is not being invited to participate in this presentation." I don't. Down through the decades since even before the cancellation of the M-1...

• Commented on I Smell A Compromise In The Making

  "--the president's trip is timed so he can arrive at KSC after the Falcon 9 launch. This way there is no 'controversy' to televise." Right. If it fails however...since when people mention "commercial", "SPACE X" follows in quick succesion...we could...

• Commented on OIG: NASA Will Probably Not Retire Shuttle in 2010

  Well, the extra STS flight they're planning should stretch things to '12 then! Get's "Bammyboy" up to the P'election......

• Commented on DIRECT Evangelistas Just Won't Give Up

  Giving up doesn't get it done! But, in truth the consistent refusal of the big players that have gotten involved "inDIRECTly"(!)to acknowledge the worth of what is - after all - originally a NASA scheme, has played against the team...

• Commented on OSTP Space <strike>Summit</Strike> Conference Update

  I want Armstrong: I believe the term is stepping up to the plate. In his case it's coming out of the recluse closet and letting "Bammyboy" have a few words of cool wisdom - in front of an audience. Do...

• Commented on OSTP Space <strike>Summit</Strike> Conference Update

  In other words do it the tried and trusted Military procurement process way! So what do we need NASA for? If you want things done right, sack the bureaucrats!...

• Commented on Fact Checking In Houston

  I hardly think the analogy holds water; particularly as that is SOP on Capitol Hill, and has been so since before 1787 - read the Federalist and Anti-federalist Papers to see what I mean. On Capitol Hill it is a...

• Commented on Space Policy Snapshot

  Sorry to hear of that Frank: didn't feature on any news program or any national article re Katrina. Probably too late for a public subscription deal which would be the obvious way to go for resurrection purposes. Pity. Considering the...

• Commented on Nelson's Compromise Emerges

  Well "Mr whiney-obviously-a-democrat", those people were phased out by a Democratic appointee! Whichever politician makes decisions - of whatever denomination - they always make the wrong ones - and appoint their own ramrods to make sure it happens that way....

• Commented on Nelson's Compromise Emerges

  What for? It only means paying more money out for yet another possible failure. The answer is a penalty contract whereby failure means payback of all contract overruns within a specified time frame coupled to a re-award to another company:rather...

• Commented on Nelson's Compromise Emerges

  One wonders whether those people doing the "reporting" have any idea of that which they speak! A compendium of jumbled comments which seem to contradict each other. It's bad enough that everyone seems to have a different take on what...

• Commented on Tug of War Over Commercial Space Safety?

  Up to 100km(the official demarcation altitude for Space), the FAA; above that altitude, NASA. Obvious and simple so the bureaucrats will try to do something more complex in order to justify their existence: pathetic. As for coordination etc...the left hand...

• Commented on New NASA Policy = Higher USAF Launch Costs?

  Correct. OOD data source updated!...