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

  Let me get this straight. We have a decorated general, running a premier agency that is under fire with it's prime program being dismantled and it's critical staff about to be cast to the winds. The general, on his own...

• Commented on Good Times Ahead at NASA Glenn

  GRC I wouldn't start to celebrate just yet. The Senate revisions states: "... Also, all of the new technology that was to be funded gets eviscerated as well by as much as 50%." I feel for you guys, you always...

• Commented on Charlie Bolden Likes To Travel (Too Much?)

  There is something very wrong with NASA and with this administration at the current time....

• Commented on Here Come The Layoffs

  You thought it more than a career, it was a calling to space flight. When NASA needed you, you were recognized at "the most capable and dedicated" employees on the planet. Now that NASA has changed you are just "yesterdays...

• Commented on NRC on NASA Labs: Not A Pretty Picture

  I had the pleasure of touring a friends US based machine/press/fab shop last week. He is state of the art and successfully competing against Chinese products with a staff of 50. He was surprised when I said: "Your equipment and...

• Commented on Costs Force SMD To Reconsider Mars Strategy

  When the real goal was to do things we did things! When the goal is to plan, re-plan, re-optimize, re-vector, socialize and hand ring; well we sub-optimize on paper and process, and leave the doing things to others... Sad state...

• Commented on New NASA Logo Designs

  You have to be kidding me? Leave the d!@* logo alone, and fix the agency! If you're going to seriously consider a logo change, just throw in the towel, go to Pixar and let them create "The Great Mission to...

• Commented on Conflicting and Colliding Messages Regarding "Plan B"

  The confusion will continue until Mr. Obama gets adult supervision in the next election cycle. After that, I do not believe we will like the fiscal prescription. The USA budget will be brought under control with respect to deficit spending....

• Commented on Florida Does Not Like The New Space Policy

  Noel, you are spot on. The budget cuts that are coming will pale to anything I have seen or imagined in my first career of 30 years. To be "fair" they are going to have to "hit" everything. Every citizen...

• Commented on "I wasn't born here at JSC, but I got here as soon as I could"

  NASA must add value to the lives of American Citizens to deserve it's support. Innovation in technology, management or operations that can be transferred to the American landscape. It has worked to become more irrelevant in it's mainstream programs over...

• Commented on Video: JSC's Project M

  Looks good, but Robonaut is "less filling" Form should follow function. Pixar does these kinds of productions better....

• Commented on NASA: Less Money, New Direction?

  Frank, with due respect, I believe the battle has already been fought and decided... we are only seeing the smoke now drift over the field. We have had the peak NASA budget, the norm will soon be $4b to $6b...

• Commented on Mike Griffin's ESAS Architecture is Dead

  We are not at the "beginning of the end," nor the "end of the beginning." We are at mid game in the dismantling of semi-robust US manned spaceflight. This phase will be a "commercial" restructuring; and the "beginning of the...

• Commented on New Poll Shows Support For Space Funding Cuts

  These are hard economic times for many Americans, so the poll is not too surprising. Folks, this is a hard reality for many of our working class neighbors. America is very different outside of the beltway. Neighbors are starting to...

• Commented on Another Missed Synergy at NASA

  There were many years where NASA designed, developed, invented and led the aerospace industry. There was a time when NASA received royalties from Pratt and Whitney for the advancements that NASA engineers made to the JT-8D! Now we (NASA) talks,...

• Commented on Is There A 10% Budget Cut In NASA's Future?

  Folks, please keep in mind the overall perspective of national $1,499 Billion deficits. This is not a sustainable level. Either the government ramps down spending ~20% across the board (including entitlements) or employment and economic activity has to go back...