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• Commented on Creating Starfleet Academy (Ongoing)

  I agree that it won't matter much as long as NASA uses managers who really can't do the job. NASA has had professional development programs and 'academy' programs for educating their managers for decades. Some of us have even gone...

• Commented on Help Choose The Best Aerospace Innovation Challenge Public Service Announcement About NASA

  While I liked a couple of the videos, I think your other observations are pretty much right on the mark. I think that you've identified Gen Bolden's and Ms Garver's job; to unite the troops and head in some common...

• Commented on Promoting The Flexible Path

  "With all due respect, the President should defer this decision to a qualified panel who know the subject area, the economics, the projections, benefits, costs, etc." And the panel should be an evenly balanced set of multidisciplinary non-partisan scientists, educators...

• Commented on Lunar Rover Simulator 1.0

  Probably as close as anyone will get for another generation, maybe two. Fras and company do great work; just wish it were real space exploration....

• Commented on Challenge Everything

  A couple decades ago JSC would place people, partly based on choice and partly based on chance, into areas where they would begin to specialize. You would work through the civil service ranks like in most other professions; trainee, journeyman,...

• Commented on Beyond Augustine

  Using advanced propulsion systems, like the VASIMR already in development, none of the NEOs, or Mars or Venus, are much more than 1-2 months away. Flex does not require more than the one or two solar system transit ships to...

• Commented on Moving On To New Things In Space

  Totally agree; move forward hundreds of years from sailing ships to aviation. Sure there were some fanatics who loved Mustangs and Constellations. The part of the population that has any direct involvement in aviation today, other than as users, is...

• Commented on NAC seeks NASA Education and Public Outreach Help

  I agree that I'd put one or two people who have the NASA experience if there is going to be some kind of an advisory group. At least in human space flight, I'd be careful of how I find them,...

• Commented on Augustine Report Commentary

  The Orion was originally intended to hold six people and originally it was larger than it is now. It was downsized several years ago. The Orion mass was one of the reasons given for requiring the SRB derived Ares booster....

• Commented on Its Up To The White House Now

  I think you are saying that ESAS was a dictate from Dr. Griffin, and no one felt they could challenge him. You probably need to read Diane Vaughn's Challenger Launch Decision and how the same cultural and managerial failures continued...

• Commented on Its Up To The White House Now

  Constellation claimed ownership for virtually all aspects of future human and some non-human spaceflight, with major initiatives begun in LEO (Orion and Ares 1 supporting ISS, on the moon (Altair, Electric Rover, new spacesuits, Ares 5) and for other future...