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• Commented on Why is NASA Langley Wasting Time on Cold Fusion Research?

  Yeah well, It sounds like a job for the Department of Energy--not NASA. One of NASA's biggest problem is that it is just too convoluted with things it just shouldn't be doing and that other agency's have already been tasked...

• Commented on Atlas V Moves Closer To Human Rating

  Good for ULA & Atlas V This certification process should have happened a long time ago and certainly before the shuttle program ended. Spiff...

• Commented on Virginia Releases Commercial Space Flight Study

  Leave it to NASA to spend xxxxx millions for more redundant infastructure....

• Commented on Is Something Wrong With the Drill on MSL? (Update)

  Well I hope they fixed the scoop too, because if they didn't it won't being working either. I flew onboard the vomit comet when this was being tested while performing martian parabolas and as the dirt came out of the...

• Commented on Local TV Station Skewers GRC on Remodeling and Travel Costs

  Just the tip of the iceberg....................... Spiff...

• Commented on New York's Deceptive Shuttle Bid

  Cheesy museum idea.............glad they could spare a whole parking lot. Sheesh!...

• Commented on X-37 Variant To Launch Crews?

  No need to get excited over this article---it just isn't going to happen. Boeing is only floating this idea to see if NASA may bite on it and NASA has already told them no thanks. NASA says the the crew...

• Commented on New Astronauts Sought

  NASA might find it could have much more public support if the general public didn't feel like only the elite were able to be astronauts. The fact is it really doesn't take a rocket scientist to be an astronaut. I...

• Commented on Houston Takes Another Shot at New York Over Shuttle Exhibit

  You obviously don't know very much about the NASA/Airforce relationship. The Airforce didn't go anywhere, they just diversified to assure access to space after the vulnerabilities of the space shuttle showed up on the front page. Then, take what you...

• Commented on Houston Takes Another Shot at New York Over Shuttle Exhibit

  Thank you! That was a superb explanation! In my opinion a shuttle at the Intrepid Air & Space museum would be and is nothing more than a "Tourist" attraction. I felt very strongly that the Air Force museum in Dayton...

• Commented on Houston Takes Another Shot at New York Over Shuttle Exhibit

  More than just one of the winners are not ready "as advertised" Its becoming more apparent as time rolls on that there were plenty of political implications involved with the decisions on where the shuttles final resting places would be....

• Commented on Hutchison/Nelson: Undermining America's Manned Space Program

  WoW, So many carts before the horse.........incredible. People, we are nowhere near the space fairing nation being romanced about in this blog. We have very little (manned) experience beyond LEO along with zero current experience. However we are in my...

• Commented on Blue Origin Suffers Major Accident (Update)

  Sorry, But this just wasn't a surprise!...

• Commented on Spaceport America Enhancing Vertical Launch Capability

  Personally I think it is a bit too early for the F.A.A. to be investing this much money in something that is this much in its infancy--this is not yet a public venture. $250K could be better spent elsewhere, $50K...

• Commented on Air Force Loses Contact with HTV-2

  The vehicles are experiencing burn through from the combustion chamber to the forebodies....

• Commented on NASA - Please Rent our Facilities

  Well, since were not able to make reality we may as well help make fantasy. It's a sad position we are in........................

• Commented on Shuttle Era Ends

  Sigh..........and then there were none....

• Commented on Save Webb Campaign Begins (Update)

  Seriously?...

• Commented on Dismantling NASA

  Jonathan, Again you beat me to the punch and saved me a lot of typing. NASA does need to be dismantled and then rebuilt but all of the wasteful practices and worthless people need to be left behind. Re-examine how...

• Commented on MPCV Is The New Way To Say Orion

  This is called "buying time" Ehhhh? What's another 10 Billion? A BFR on a mission to nowhere. The only mission this decision will undertake is to continue the juggernaut white collared welfare program that we call NASA. Hey Charlie B,...

• Commented on DARPA's 100 Year Starship Study

  Jonathan, Thank you! You're spot on! Now I don't have to type all that! LoL Spiff...............................Out...

• Commented on Scolese: Webb Launch Could Slip to 2022-2024 (Updated)

  Until the time comes that NASA managers are truly held accountable for the programs they oversee this type of thing will always continue. NASA rarely if ever fires anyone, instead they are moved around and become someone else’s problem but...

• Commented on NASA's Rocket To Nowhere

  Ehhhhh? What's another 10 Billion............. Sheesh! Spiff.........

• Commented on First Feathered Flight For SpaceShip Two (Update: Video)

  Lot of science to be done? Seriously? In the last twenty five years of space shuttle all our microgravity scientists have done is regurgitate experiments from the 60's, 70's & 80's over and over and over again. Change this, tweek...

• Commented on Gene Cernan Is Stuck In The Past

  Tinker, You are exactly right! Apollo was JUST a mission But the railroad was a necessity! And Human Space Flight is NOTHING more than a DESIRE! Neither the US government or any commercial venture owes anybody access to space no...

• Commented on Shuttles and Museums: Thinking Outside The Box

  People, people, VIP's are the only folks that will get into a museum shuttle if that.......... Anyway, not a single one of the orbiters could withstand the traffic of the public constantly going in and out, plus like it or...

• Commented on Endeavour to LA, Atlantis to KSC, Discovery to DC, Enterprise to New York

  Gee, So now we get to PAY to go see a spaceship we have already paid with our taxes for the last 30 years. And I too have never even heard of the California science center and I have gone...

• Commented on Shuttle Museum Announcement Today

  Atlantis is going to the Air Force museum at Wright Patterson in Dayton as it should. Done deal a long time ago.............

• Commented on Shuttle Museum Announcement Today

  I agree and have said the same before, The airshow season is upon us and what a public relations success would it be to have NASA attend several of the high profile airshows that have long runways with a 747/Orbiter...

• Commented on SpaceX Announces Falcon 9 Heavy Launch Date

  Ambitious, But at least someone is looking into building something to go somewhere in this lifetime....