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• Commented on Former NASA Astronauts On Commercial Space

  Constellation/Ares is in not access to LEO - it is a program that has fallen further behind with every year. The US's only route to LEO right now is Shuttle, not Ares. You are being disingenuous by describing Ares as...

• Commented on The Politics Behind Opposing Changes at NASA

  A radical departure from failure is no vice. NASA is now going to do what it should have done 10 years ago. This is a case of lead, follow or get out of the way....

• Commented on Wall Street Journal on Commercial Space and Obama

  The USAF and Big Aerospace already did much of what you suggest in developing the 2 EELV vehicles. These are now massively underutilized. Why not use what is available now instead of pining for something new? NASA has repeatedly shown...

• Commented on <strike>10</Strike> 9% of the 21st Century Has Been Used Up

  The past decade has been the most productive in space since the Apollo era. ISS has been nearly finished and private space has also begun to blossom. The MER and Cassini probes have opened new vistas. Good times....

• Commented on More Infighting Among The Faithful

  You are somewhat remiss in history. Commercial rocket development has been attempted and had a very mixed record. It is simply a very very hard problem. The record includes successes (w/ NASA/USAF support) of Pegasus, EELV, some suborbital test rockets...

• Commented on Today's Video: HiRISE Images 18 November 2009

  Awesome music! Sounds like Slayer and Pantera had a lovechild. Incredible HiRISE images, too. Nice to see some of the diversity of terrain in 3:00....

• Commented on More Infighting Among The Faithful

  "The biggest fight is over the smallest pie." (which is an argument IMHO to circumvent the political process and do space development only within capital markets)...

• Commented on Street Theater Outside NASA HQ at 11 am

  Will PETA volunteer for radiation testing on humans, then?...

• Commented on Anti-Space Tourism Defeatism From ESA Alumni

  Libel much? These guys do themselves and all space-oriented efforts a serious disservice. Thanks for the in-fighting....

• Commented on China and U.S. To Cooperate in Space (And On Trains)

  This is good news and a huge opportunity for commercial and civil space. Commercial access to Shenzhou would provide welcome competition to Soyuz when it's the only way Up until Dragon, Cygnus or Orion comes online....

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

  So those are the East Coast and Central... What's California saying?...

• Commented on Ares 1-Y is Toast

  Eagle Eye, SpaceX already did exceed their schedule by moving Dragon test article up to the first Falcon 9 flight. Gary, they may be citing that number based on Ares I-X. I would argue that CxP is being "sized to...

• Commented on TEDxNASA: Details Revealed

  Elitists are elitist again, film at 11....

• Commented on Ares 1-Y is Toast

  @ Geoffrey - NASA needs to focus on what it does really well and get away from things it routinely fails at. NASA does space ops, robotics and deep space operations along with R&D in ways no other organization can....

• Commented on Ares 1-Y is Toast

  @Gary Miles - The single-core, 10-ton-to-LEO Falcon 9 is the crew launcher. The 3-core, 25-ton version will be for launching station modules. The rocket on the pad at the Cape right now is for crew and cargo transfer. SpaceX will...

• Commented on Moving On To New Things In Space

  Dr. Chiao's points are good, especially regarding the report. Why people don't care about space is well-trod territory. If you looked back to the Age of Sail (starting w/ China) you would find that most people didn't care one wit...

• Commented on Trying A Little Too Hard To Be Hip (update)

  This is just a taste of your own medicine for decades of technobabble when publicly speaking. Part of the public disengagement from NASA is because of a language gap between the technical and non-technical. The only part the general public...

• Commented on Ares 1-X Launch Scrubbed

  Scrubbed. Try again tomorrow....

• Commented on Ares 1-X Launch Scrubbed

  Go Ares Team! (And unzip it at Max-Q!)...

• Commented on Sean O'Keefe's New Job, New Portrait

  Good job for a good man. Best of luck. Hopefully we will see EADS step into a similar role with new.space as Boeing and Lockheed are doing....

• Commented on Going To Mars - To Stay

  Mars orbit is the sweet spot. Known environment, we already have 3/4 of the needed hardware (ISS-like modules). If Phobos or Deimos have water, Mars orbit has the potential to be the next New York City. For NASA, an orbiter-first...

• Commented on Commercial Crew Services Also Have The Right Stuff

  So you want NASA to compete against Bigelow instead of working with them? Same for SpaceX?...

• Commented on Tell Us What You Really Think, Jeff

  @ Eagle Eye - he sent it from a tax-payer funded email address to other tax-payer funded emails. Unless it's classified info it is absolutely public and fair game....

• Commented on A Real Spinoff

  Wow. Just... wow. We live in a science fiction world my friends....

• Commented on More Opinions on NASA's Value

  @Patrick - Cell phones were invented concurrently by Bell Labs and Nokia in the '80s. Had nothing to do with Apollo except that they both use radio and electricity. Apollo computers were not the driving factor in PC or portable...