Comments on: Budget news http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/11/16/budget-news/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=budget-news Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Bill White http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/11/16/budget-news/#comment-2017 Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:06:40 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=351#comment-2017 Where is the bottleneck?

Who should get letters or phone calls seeking full funding for the VSE?

]]> By: Mark http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/11/16/budget-news/#comment-2016 Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:41:52 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=351#comment-2016 Philip, things can always go from bad to worse. I think that’s what the senator and his pals are worried about. Case in point: Boeing, Northrop Grumman to Team Up on Spaceship. If that doesn’t sound like the formation of a federally sponsored “rocket cartel”, I don’t know what does. Add to that the fact that Boeing seems to be coming up with all kinds of asinine ideas on how to launch to the Moon and the Senate has reason to be concerned that they money spent will be spent wisely.

Fiscal conservatism doesn’t mean anti-space. In fact, there’s nothing better to make sure we get out of LEO then to do it “cheaply”.

]]> By: Philip Littrell http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/11/16/budget-news/#comment-2015 Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:26:44 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=351#comment-2015 Sen. George Allen (R-VA) told the newspaper that some of his colleagues in the Senate “still have to be convinced (NASA officials) have a plan to spend money wisely.”

Retiring an experimental system, and building a spaceship with existing, tested, proven technology is a wise move.

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