Comments on: Endorsements for NASA administrator http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/12/17/endorsements-for-nasa-administrator/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=endorsements-for-nasa-administrator 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: Brent http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/12/17/endorsements-for-nasa-administrator/#comment-2290 Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:01:18 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=395#comment-2290 BTW, if anyone is interested in a copy of Worden’s book, I have a few copies left from a valiant but unfruitful attempt to start a space power theory reading group at an Air Force base. Visionless pilot wannabees!

Just email me if interested (click on the name, right?)

Brent

]]> By: Brent http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/12/17/endorsements-for-nasa-administrator/#comment-2289 Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:58:37 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=395#comment-2289 The “three stooges” comment was what Gen Worden called the big aerospace firms. Personally, I like his “Department of Defense design bureau” description of them better.

I have been a fan of Worden for as long as I’ve known about him. I was deeply disappointed to hear of his retirement from the USAF. He was without question the best space thinker in uniform. However, his career has been built on beating NASA at its own game. He got the DOD to build the delta clipper. His DOD mission Clementine found the first indications of water ice on the moon.

General Worden would have been best leading a future military space force that focused on space research and exploration as well as military exploitation, the way space should have been done in the US from the very beginning. See his book “Whither Space Power?” from Air University Press if you’re interested about what he thinks. In my opinion, the best book on the future of space written by a military member.

I’m weary of him being NASA Administrator though. He would try to completely remake the agency in a way that makes O’Keefe’s tenure seem like a walk in the park. Worden’s NASA would be the agency America deserves. I don’t know if he is powerful enough to do it.

]]> By: Dogsbd http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/12/17/endorsements-for-nasa-administrator/#comment-2288 Mon, 20 Dec 2004 03:30:16 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=395#comment-2288 >>>by simply developing a human transport to and fro at controlled cost and high safety margin

Soyuz??

]]> By: Toro http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/12/17/endorsements-for-nasa-administrator/#comment-2287 Sat, 18 Dec 2004 03:58:25 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=395#comment-2287 On D-Day, the allies did not take Paris, or Berlin, but instead simply secured a foothold. NASA has yet to secure a foothold at low Earth orbit. Are there no military folks at NASA who understand strategy? Forget the moon, forget Mars. Secure the LEO foothold, as the shuttle failed to do, by simply developing a human transport to and fro at controlled cost and high safety margin. Then go from there. Since rockets fail occasionally, incorporate the Apollo 13 unlearned lesson and actually have a survival, escape and rescue system that is nearly independent, tested before the fact. Failure is an option in an open minded culture.

]]> By: Mark http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/12/17/endorsements-for-nasa-administrator/#comment-2286 Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:15:51 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=395#comment-2286 What was the “3 stooges” comment?

]]> By: Bill White http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/12/17/endorsements-for-nasa-administrator/#comment-2285 Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:52:07 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=395#comment-2285 I saw Worden talk at SpaceVision 2004 and was very impressed, for the exact reasons Sam Dinkin mentions.

But wait, I have said that elsewhere already. ;-)

That said, his “three stooges” comments won’t help his chances. True, but perhaps not helpful. ;-/

]]> By: Sam Dinkin http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/12/17/endorsements-for-nasa-administrator/#comment-2284 Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:25:02 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=395#comment-2284 If you read the pdf referred to in the last post, Gen. Worden advocates lunar and Mars comsats, surveying missions, lunar DoD research, and foresees private sector space doing one-way colonization trips to Mars. This is one way cool dude!

]]> By: Mark http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/12/17/endorsements-for-nasa-administrator/#comment-2283 Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:27:05 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=395#comment-2283 Cool indeed: http://www.space-frontier.org/cgi-bin/BBS/MoonBase/read/9585

It looks like he’s all for pushing the cheap, private sector development of space capabilities and even hints that Martian settlement is a valid goal.

]]> By: Bill White http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/12/17/endorsements-for-nasa-administrator/#comment-2282 Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:38:04 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=395#comment-2282 Cool!

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