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

  Thanks for being a voice of reason in this (mostly) republican brouhaha....

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

  "International cooperation is a tool that is authorized to perform the "work done pursuant to this Act", not the work itself." Which pursuant to the act that is defined as: "An Act To provide for research into problems of flight...

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

  "Yes. "Had" is the operative word - somebody has been trying to remove those things." Ah, I see. There was a very bad person somewhere who's been trying. And who might that be? Someone we know or someone else secret?...

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

  "All of that is quite true." So in essence I am right. But I am actually wrong? Right? You are just parroting what some very simple minded politicians are saying. Get an opinion of your own! For Ares sake! "ISS...

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

  "Exactly. I am sure you think this has made your point for you - not so much." Duh... Yes and you did too below... "Yes, SoS architecture can have interconnected effects based on other joining systems flaws. In this case,...

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

  An earlier post of yours: http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2010/02/space-policy-go.html Outbound | February 16, 2010 1:05 AM | Reply "That's why NASA was created - to protect the skies and maintain excellence on what really is the highest ground." Oh yeah this really is...

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

  "it should be understood that that kind of performance is contingent upon having a goal. A real goal, somewhere to go, something to do." I see so Constellation an horrible failure is because... Because of what? They did not have...

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

  Okay I am going to try slowly: Why did we come up with NASA in the first place? Any idea? Cold War rings a bell? It was a diplomatic act, yes diplomatic. In order to demonstrate the might of the...

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

  Constellation has one major flaw? Who are you kidding? Ares I only? Okay then. Ever heard of systems of systems? Ares I has a flaw therefore Orion has a flaw therefore the LAS has a flaw therefore the launching pad...

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

  http://nasawatch.com/archives/2010/07/video-nasa-bold.html Need more to get it?...

• Commented on The Grand Master of Foot-In-Mouth Speaks

  "The Ares does currently exist - in the form of Ares IX. Ares IX, I and V are all just large SRBs, but that doesn't mean there's no Ares." I surely hope you don't work in this business. That might...

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

  "Do good work, do things nobody else can do, and then do it some more. People (and peoples) are attracted to success. That's all that needs to be done." Okay let's assume for a second that this is how it...

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

  What Gen. Bolden did is to build bridges with unusual partners to prospect what these potential partners can do for NASA's mission. You can read it the way you like at this point I cannot bring a horse to the...

• Commented on The Grand Master of Foot-In-Mouth Speaks

  "You clearly have a very unlimited view of what NASA is supposed to do, and it's thinking like that that litters NASA's budget with over $700 million in pork barrel spending." No I don't. And not it is not why...

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

  Sorry no. I re-read your post though and I will admit that I may have misinterpreted some of your comments. Maybe because of others comments......

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

  Very condescending. You can do better can you not?...

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

  "Your reading comprehension needs work. This section refers to the use of international partnerships to perform the work authorized by the Space Act. It in no way says that international cooperation (or similar diplomatic pursuit) is the work ITSELF. This...

• Commented on Cernan Calls On Bolden To Resign

  "Editor's note: excellent point. This issue has nothing to do with Muslims." Agreed. "While it is great for NASA to be thinking of things in a global context at the end of the day it is an American space agency...

• Commented on The Grand Master of Foot-In-Mouth Speaks

  Who gave you that charter????...

• Commented on The Grand Master of Foot-In-Mouth Speaks

  Yes I know. But look. This WH had convened a discussion among adults: The Augustine Committee. Those of us who think they did a good job were cast in the anti-HSF category. The leader of them all is Mike Griffin....

• Commented on The Grand Master of Foot-In-Mouth Speaks

  "We'd get a heck of a lot more accomplished. Don't you think?" You believe Griffin is acting as an adult? Is this whole thing an adult conversation?...

• Commented on Cernan Calls On Bolden To Resign

  With all due respect for past accomplishment I think Cernan should resign. Or something......

• Commented on The Grand Master of Foot-In-Mouth Speaks

  Why would that be mutually exclusive? I mean diplomacy and US space preeminence? Also why misplaced emphasis when NASA ran Constellation to the ditch when people used to think it was NASA's role to perform? When you fail at a...

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

  Hmm excuse me but what do you know? Are you saying that the NASA administrator is off on a trip of his ow? To the mid East??? All I said is that it is in NASA's Space Act to perform...

• Commented on The Grand Master of Foot-In-Mouth Speaks

  Unlike you I am absolutely not confused. You clearly have a very limited view of what NASA is supposed to do. If you don't understand why they are trying an outreach of this nature to this part of the world...

• Commented on Why Didn't Bolden Just Say So In The First Place?

  "BO has more important purposes in mind." Duh?...

• Commented on The Grand Master of Foot-In-Mouth Speaks

  Hmm... ""NASA was chartered by the 1958 Space Act to develop the arts and sciences of flight in the atmosphere and in space and to go where those technologies will allow us to go,"" I'd like to see that sentence...

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

  It is to me very sad that a lot of you cannot see the importance of the outreach. You have become so much into yourselves, sorry, that trying to do good with other countries seem irrelevant? Yes it is important...

• Commented on Blunt Talk in Houston

  ""If we flounder and lose out on this opportunity, it is unlikely that our nation will have a similar opportunity in our lifetime," Bolden said." Yep. Well I hope General Bolden that people at NASA will come to their senses....

• Commented on And Now A Word From The Lunatic Fringe

  Mike Coats is at the origin of a leaked memo to the WSJ that Charles Bolden had to go public doing damage control and saying there was no "plan B" and that he did not ask anyone for options for...