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• Commented on Ares 1-X Staging Issue

  There's a few reporters that have gotten back to reality. AP's reporting it now, but Harwood got the inside scoop first: NASA assessing dented booster from Ares 1-X launch http://www.spaceflightnow.com/ares1x/091029dent/ Also, interestingly Harwood earlier reported that an aircraft person claimed...

• Commented on Ares 1-X Staging Issue

  NASA CxP has gone above & beyond to incessantly blab on & on about their Superior internal analysis and discrediting of dissent: Augustine panel, 45th Space Wing, etc. Ref the 45th discredit campaign http://nasawatch.com/archives/2009/07/ares-1-abort-study-update.html#comments and the Ares PDR fiasco for...

• Commented on Its Up To The White House Now

  barsoom's analysis of NASA CxP management is spot on!...

• Commented on Its Up To The White House Now

  And/or maybe the US HSF "Gap" is/was manufactured for a reason..... Is the RLV industry emerging from hibernation? http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1497/1...

• Commented on Congress and the Augustine Report

  And this one's got a humourous twist on the spin: Panel Says Planned NASA Rocket Won’t Do the Job - US News and World Report "The committee charged with reviewing NASA’s spaceflight program concludes that the Ares 1 rocket being...

• Commented on Its Up To The White House Now

  Detest Fox as much as any Dem, but wonder if this is a factor: Mum's the Word for NASA's Secret Space Plane X-37B "You would think that an unpiloted space plane built to rocket spaceward from Florida atop an Atlas...

• Commented on Ares 1-X Is One Step Closer To Launch

  It's an business magazine & the article is correct as written, HSF software is unique & unusual for Safety, Quality, and Reliability. The other industries with software ya referenced are why there's tons of Software Quality rackets out there, including...

• Commented on Ares 1-X Is One Step Closer To Launch

  duh (as Keith often says): ok, let's try this again. From: Finding the Freedom Not to Fail "Not to be outdone, NASA reports that two-thirds of its projects are routinely over-schedule and over-budget... We discovered five early warning signs...you can...

• Commented on Ares 1-X Is One Step Closer To Launch

  LoL! But according to various CxP posters & bloggers over the past few years, this latest study indicates that it's got an 80% chance of failure based on poor management alone: Finding the Freedom Not to Fail Even well-meaning workers...

• Commented on Ares 1-X Is One Step Closer To Launch

  There's a quote in Murray's Apollo book from Caldwell Johnson "if it doesn't look right, it isn't". It's a CORNDOG! What a perfect visual expression of NASA's top heavy top-down management interference from Griffin/Cook/Hanley/Cooke etc. More important than the notorious...

• Commented on Commercial Crew Services Also Have The Right Stuff

  LOL!! Nice try but that's just too much spin there. 1. Doubt it - proof?? 2. Even if so, Size matters. The large scale complexity & systems integration of manned launch vehicle computer systems doesn't compare to anything else launched...

• Commented on Commercial Crew Services Also Have The Right Stuff

  Nope, don't think so. Here's something critical that NASA HSF (Shuttle/Apollo-not CxP) does significantly better, & is world class best at, than anything anywhere: They Write the Right Stuff The right stuff is the software...But how much work the software...

• Commented on Rolling Out Ares 1-X

  Wondering about the computer systems and software. The PR seems to be emphasizing the "700 sensors" when Apollo & Shuttle had thousands. There's an old article about Shuttle on-board software & methodology that's probably true for ground test & launch...

• Commented on Tell Us What You Really Think, Jeff

  Still skeptical about Augustine panel's objectiveness. Read at NSF that Bo is really pro-commercial, so supporting CxP fits nicely in that scheme, LoL!) If you could think up everything to do for an unsuccessful rocket design, what's the most likely...

• Commented on Tell Us What You Really Think, Jeff

  Yes, and every so often reminder email notices go out to all NASA & contractor employees that emails sent to certain GS level NASA folks are specially auto-archived for some public records storage, maybe for library of congress or something...

• Commented on Tell Us What You Really Think, Jeff

  Actually, ya might want to do some more Apollo homework. Chapters 7 "We Had More Hairbrained Schemes than you could shake a stick at": http://www.amazon.com/Apollo-Charles-Murray/dp/0976000806/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255395148&sr=1-1...

• Commented on Tell Us What You Really Think, Jeff

  Many within NASA CxP disagree about Hanely & CxP & here's one of the threads http://nasawatch.com/archives/2009/08/congressional-pleading-for-ares-1.html just some of CornDogRocket's comments: Now if you ask Hanley I am sure you’ll hear that everything is wonderful just like every email we...

• Commented on NASA Watch Support

  Especially like the "Reply to a comment" feature!...

• Commented on Telescopes on The White House Lawn

  Obama's Titusville speech video is on http://www.savespace.us/index.html Excerpt From Letter #1 - Pledge to Florida: Dear Mr. President: On August 2, 2008... You spoke to us... You pledged to: • Make sure that all those who work in the space...

• Commented on Making Rockets Obsolete

  If "paradigm shift" is defined as change to "a pattern, example, or model; an overall concept accepted by most people in an intellectual community, as those in one of the natural sciences http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/paradigm.html http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/paradigm-shift.html Then, obviously Titanic failed that paradigm...

• Commented on KSC Layoffs Begin

  Well, the local FL Space Council (mostly republican) has made sure to remind everybody of Obama's campaign speech in Titusville, video & all, where he assured that No (nada, zilch, none) Shuttle workers would lose their jobs. So, somebody in...

• Commented on Telescopes on The White House Lawn

  Yeah, those are actions that really do count for lots more than the words. Now, somebody remind Obama about his promises to the KSC Shuttle workforce - already broken with the layoffs since he took office for which he already...

• Commented on Speaking Out - And Not Being Afraid

  Oh geesh, where oh where to begin with this one, lalaland thinkers in DC, great....... Agree with most of her co-worker attendee's opinions - Ms. Beck does seem either extremely naive, arrogant, certainly ineffective, or perhaps a most deviously calculating...

• Commented on Making Rockets Obsolete

  ruh-roh, there's that "a paradigm shift" red flag! i.e. let me sell ya some'n that's gonna cost alot & might not work. Helps to remember that for every paradigm shift success story (nuclear subs in this story) there's a host...

• Commented on A New Crop of Weightless Teachers

  Wonder if folks suffer from the same post-gravity fainting effects or if it's only when long term? Do they have any health screening criteria before allowing participation and/or dizziness followup? Canadian researchers tackle 'fainting astronaut syndrome' Blaber said about 80...