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• Commented on Dragon Tests Its Parachutes

  Admirable accomplishment. It is hard to argue with success....

• Commented on Gordon's Attempt To Shove HR 5781 Through Flops

  Like beauty, pork is in the eye of the beholder....

• Commented on SpaceX Organizes NO on H.R. 5781 Effort

  It would have helped if Elon had 100,000 employees all over the country developing a rocket transportation system for 1/10th the cost that other contractors charge, but that is not realistic. The problem I see Elon facing is the numbers...

• Commented on Video: SpaceUp DC

  What was the name of the crazy guy jumping, screaming, running out of breath, and about to throw up? Huhm? The point of the question is no matter how ignited people try to make space to justify its funding by...

• Commented on Obama and Glenn Meet To Talk Space

  In the end, and we are currently witnessing the end or rather the inevitability of having to make a spending choice, NASA chose faster, cheaper, and better, i.e., the Russians to access the ISS because, in a way, it is...

• Commented on Obama and Glenn Meet To Talk Space

  The public use of the word "gap" by politicians, media, spinners, pundits, TV clowns, i.e., people who believe they are being fair and impartial, is going to change soon even though the gap will not. I eagerly await to find...

• Commented on The Senate NASA Compromise: A Hinge of History?

  My thought is that if this committee leaves a glimmer of hope in the compromise for one more shuttle flight and a potential moonshot, they will not lose their jobs no matter how the Administration reacts, good or bad. They...

• Commented on Senate and White House (Apparently) Compromise on NASA Policy

  Just imagine. These wonderful people are going to set things back to the way they were and no one is going to lose their jobs and astronauts are going to get to do fun things like they always have. Maybe...

• Commented on Nelson & Hutchison Have a "Major Breakthrough" to Announce

  This is all about them singing and dancing in front of an entertained audience. They will do whatever they do to stay elected this November. It involves complicated psychology that we are totally unaware of. Hypothetically... Are you going to...

• Commented on UDPATE: Obama DID NOT "Charge" Bolden To Do Muslim Country Outreach

  "Good morning Mr. Bolden. Please fly to the Middle East and perform international diplomacy with foreigners so their children stop setting roadside bombs in our oil rich areas. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, will put our country...

• Commented on It Is Time For Charlie Bolden To Stay Home

  "Stanley Allen McChrystal was not dismissed for failure to follow orders. Stan was dismissed for his own personal failings as well as those of his staff. " Do you suppose if he was following orders and achieving his commander’s goals...

• Commented on It Is Time For Charlie Bolden To Stay Home

  This was so bizarre. I am too far out-of-the-loop to comprehend the global control strategy deployed by our president but I follow orders just like Charlie. I feel sorry for Bolden to have to follow orders or be dismissed like...

• Commented on Charlie Bolden: Stealth Middle East Diplomat?

  Lawrence of Arabia, 2010....

• Commented on Why Aren't We Hearing More About JSC's Project-M?

  Masten Space is going to beat Armadillo for the actual contract to land on the Moon because they beat them in the X-Prize competition. This company is orders of magnitude ahead of Armadillo in this respect. NASA is just using...

• Commented on Has China Been Formally Invited to Join the ISS Program? (Another Update)

  I agree with all of your talking points. I want the shuttle extended and SpaceX to succeed as much as anyone else, however, reality dictates that the shuttle is going to retire in two or three flights and SpaceX is...

• Commented on Has China Been Formally Invited to Join the ISS Program? (Another Update)

  SpaceX has changed the game with the goal of competing with the opposite end of the space access spectrum, i.e., the Russians. They simply cannot compete with space access power houses since the game is rigged to their advantage. If...

• Commented on Has China Been Formally Invited to Join the ISS Program? (Another Update)

  You know and I know the "gap" in its original definition is never going to happen. Just like an asteroid impact is never going to happen. What does happen is these fearful events are used to entertain a large public...

• Commented on John Glenn Has Something To Say

  John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin. Does this sound funny to you? Why are we asking ex-astronauts when we should be asking the people who are going to fly in them someday?...

• Commented on Why Isn't The Rest Of America Upset About This?

  The rest of America is not upset about this since they simply have lost their hope of going to space themselves. They are simply not the ones that want to go to space. In the past, pretty pictures from space...

• Commented on Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicle Idea Is Still Alive

  This presentation promotes more urgency to spend a lot of money to build a heavy lift vehicle. I hate to say this, but this urgency is simply going to fall on deaf ears just like Constellation. I want to work...

• Commented on Space Tugs

  The Russians are building a crawl-through space tug that attaches to the ISS. Its dual-use purpose is to tug things around and serve as a manned habitat while not tugging. Denying this is going to happen reflects the resistance for...

• Commented on Houston Comes To Washington

  NASA could someday choose not to use any available foreign access to space just to go to the ISS and end up ignoring everyone's pleas and just turn the keys of the ISS over to whoever coughs up the money...

• Commented on Mike Griffin, Master Manipulator

  Does "Battle For The Planet of the Apes" or "Beyond the Planet of the Apes" or "Escape from the Planet of the Apes" ring any bells here?...

• Commented on Hearing Reaction

  Sounds like former astronauts holding huge decorations and global admiration for all eternity have drawn a line in the sand like President Bush did several years ago when he said "Either you're with us or against us". Something tells me...

• Commented on Planning For Alternate Ways To Get to ISS

  Interesting perspectives. I am glad people other than myself are looking seriously at this unsolved problem that is one of the main barriers to non-LEO space exploration. People need to hear your views. Don't stop with just me. Keep up...

• Commented on Different Mission = Different Spacecraft

  When was the last time you ever heard of a launch service go out of business because of a rocket failure? They typically go out of business for other reasons. By the time the rocket is launched, the risk is...

• Commented on Planning For Alternate Ways To Get to ISS

  Sounds like they are now taking me seriously when I repeatedly told them they need to put rodents, a few hours a day, in one of three onboard operating centrifuges on the ISS. Or maybe not. They could be planning...

• Commented on Story Musgrave Thinks That The ISS is "an ungodly sin"

  Musgrave is correct. Change could only come from putting real scientists on-board instead of highly respected astronauts with cream-of-the-crop blemish-free credentials. No offense, of course. The probability of that ever happening, however, is quite slim. However, probabilities change over time...

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

  It just demonstrates that bad people could fraudulently send emails to your congressman that makes you look like a terrorist or an unruly person that puts you on the no-fly list or puts you under further government surveillance or under...

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

  What's going to happen is that the President is going to authorize one more shuttle flight so everyone keeps their jobs until this November election is over, then, retire the shuttle. No president in their right mind would layoff thousands...