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• RocketScientist327 commented on CxP Fights Back: The Video
  @Fred The answer is simple and two fold. 1) Americans have been made to fear nuclear energy in any capacity. 2) NASA cannot take risks. Their culture will not allow for it. VR RS327...

• RayGun commented on CxP Fights Back: The Video
  If Ares I-X would of used the 4 segment SRB and the SSME upper stage we wouldn't be cancelling the program. If Ares I would be ready by 2012 it would be impossible to cancel. To bad, so sad. If NASA gets another chance to build a rocket, next time make the requirements and than design the rocket....

• 53hondo commented on CxP Fights Back: The Video
  This video comes across as so much whining... NASA is getting MORE MONEY going forward, and has the opportunity to do new work - things no one has done before. As with anything worthwhile in life, new achievements will be difficult; people will have to work hard to take skills they've honed, add new skills, and contribute. More money for NASA will directly result in more jobs for the aerospace industry. How is this not a good thing?...

• Pawn commented on CxP Fights Back: The Video
  Don't worry Fred, you and Lamont are going to have a big payday salvaging the processing facilities and the Pads at KSC in the next few years. Better get some new shocks for the truck....

• mwfair commented on CxP Fights Back: The Video
  I respect the Constellation folks for many things, and this video reflects their passion, and to some extent, their progress. And I certainly am not going to begrudge them some time to agitate for reconsideration, or even just a 'for the record' statement. But the devil is in the details. A) many of the images ( in my view the most inspiring ones) were not Constellation. E.g. the Scout and ATHLETE rovers were being worked before ESAS. B)some CxP projects have already been canceled, e.g. Altair. C)The most powerful statements of CxP accomplishment and ready-to-go-ness were Ares 1-X launch, but...