16 May
2010
16 May
'10
8:49 p.m.
Yes, we are broke, but at the same time we're gonna be paying Russia
like $30 mill per astronaut to go up in one of their cold war era
gumball spacecraft. When I was mentioning private industry, I meant
those that are trusted US contractor, I wasn't saying lets outsource to
"Kim Il Jon Spaceworks" or "Amedinjad Flight Systems" or the like ;-)
Teo Zenios wrote:
You sound like a poker player who is down Billions and
thinks if he
keeps playing he can dig himself out. The fact is this country is
broke, spending another dime sending man off the earth is a waste of
money we do not have. Private companies can send satellites into
orbit, and NASA has the money and rockets to send robots into the
solar system as needed.
We will never give the plans for our rockets out since they have
military uses (if you can get a payload into space you can drop one
anywhere on the earth).
----- Original Message ----- From: "Curt @ Atari Museum"
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Subject: Re: [OT] Space Shuttle and ISS (was Re: Amiga 1000 helps
winagainstpatent troll...)
Yes, lets pour billions into a launch system -
then can it right
after the first (successful) test flight... so typical of govt... do
I get my money back if Obama won't use an already invested design?
If they want to go private industry - great, then share the system
designs with those private companies and have them continue the
project and work, don't toss it into the dumpster, thats just
S-T-U-P-I-D... though I put nothing past govt anymore :-/
Eric Smith wrote:
> On 05/16/2010 08:50 AM, RodSmallwood wrote:
>> So what is going to replace the Shuttle and when?
>>
> Originally the plan was to replace it with two systems:
>
> * crew launched in an Orion capsule on an Ares I
>
> * cargo (heavy lift) launched on an Ares V
>
> Obama and the NASA administrator want to cancel Ares I, but Congress
> might block that.
>
> Ares I is an incredibly stupid design, but if we cancel it we will
> have no capability of launching manned missions at all. The NASA
> plan is to contract that out to private industry, and I'm generally
> in favor of that, but we shouldn't kill NASA's in-house manned
> launch capability until the private alternative has been
> successfully tested.
>
> Eric
>
>