FlintlockMusket (Mitch Murray)

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• Commented on Buzz Says Send English Speakers to Mars

  Do most of the people commenting on this site really have any clue, or do they just read the tag line and make stupid comments. Dr. Aldrin is in Australia and New Zealand promoting the Make a Wish Foundation, and...

• Commented on Concerns Raised Over House NASA Authorization Bill

  This is a great letter. The only problem is do you really think anyone in Congress is really going to pay attention. If dollars aren't attached, they don't care....

• Commented on Should Congress Design the Next Big Booster?

  OK people, let stop the snipping, and work together. The Idiots in Congress can set the bar if they want, this does not mean that NASA has to stay at that level. Congress says that NASA has to use SRB's,...

• Commented on Why Everything Costs So Much At NASA

  the Russian N1 was horizontally integrated, and it was a Saturn V size rocket. KSC was setup to process Saturn size rockets (C-3 versions if I remember) and launch every two weeks. This was when EOR was the prime option...

• Commented on Should Congress Design the Next Big Booster?

  Frank, I wonder if what we are seeing is a backlash from 1) The options given to us by the Augustine Commission, and 2) The choices made by President Obama in moving NASA forward (or backwards, depending on point of...

• Commented on Here We Go Again: Do More With Less

  Here we go again. Boeing and Lockheed will not even try to build a rocket for less then double the cost and half the performance of the contract. Cost-plus is how they do business, and nothing less. Why do you...

• Commented on Is A Human Space Flight Compromise Emerging?

  Wow, and so if this is the road map being hashed around, then how are we going to pay for this? The last time I looked, NASA was on a budget....

• Commented on Mike Griffin Update

  I'm going to go off on my own here and let everyone know how I really feel about Dr. Griffin. He may have six degrees, yet I believe that hardly made him "The One" when it came to designing a...

• Commented on Another Orion Parachute Problem - Still No Word

  To all of you rambling naysayers out there, either way, you need to check your facts. Orion1 - SpaceX's (and Orbital's) contract is a fixed price, mile stoned based contract. Which means that SpaceX (and Orbital) manages it's own program...

• Commented on China's Lunar Ambitions

  1) So we're not going to the Moon, so what. So China is, again, so what. They will try, some will die, they will plant a flag, and then find something else to do. Going to the Moon is easy...

• Commented on NASA: Less Money, New Direction?

  "NASA has a whole new set of rules for human spaceflight" The only reason NASA changed all of the rules is because it likes printing paper instead of bending metal. Everything that we learned has been thrown out of the...

• Commented on NASA: Less Money, New Direction?

  That is why you have a space station. You return to earth orbit and then hope aboard a shuttle to return to earth. No more high speed reentries....

• Commented on NASA: Less Money, New Direction?

  To start, let me say that possum is right in some respects, a second gen shuttle would be icing on the cake of space flight. Let just keep it to passengers and move cargo to rockets dedicated to cargo. Lets...

• Commented on SpaceX Refutes Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel

  I'll try to keep this short and sweet. Since NASA decided to mess with NPR 8705.2 in respect to CxP, does this mean that NASA can change the defined term of "Human Rated" at it's wish and whim. Having read...

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

  "I have seen the future, and it is behind me." As to the future. I cringe every time some talks about flying from the earth to the moon with an Apollo style mission profile. In "2001 A Space Odyssey",...

• Commented on Ares 1-X Staging Issue

  I first of all would like to agree with "dbooker". His comments are about as true as you can get on this subject. Test flights have been used throughout rocket history. This was not a test flight. This was a...

• Commented on Media Reaction To Augustine Report

  And it has started. The name bashing and grandstanding of those wanting to save NASA, ect... (even though nothing has been really decided). It would be nice for the NASA leadership to pull their collective heads out of the dark...

• Commented on Dragon Is About To Fly While Orion Is Still on Paper

  Lets get this straight, this is not about Dragon or Orion. This is about two very different organizations doing business in very different ways. Start with NASA, a vast government agency with tens of not hundred of thousands of employee's...

• Commented on Making Rockets Obsolete

  Great article. This is the type of thinking that we need to have to allow mankind to truly explore space. Be it manned or unmanned, Dr. Chang-Diaz puts it best when he said "in space, power is life". Hope more...