16 May
2010
16 May
'10
7:47 p.m.
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" <curt at atarimuseum.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 9:14 PM
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
>
>