Comments on: Hutchison’s vision for NASA http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/03/21/hutchisons-vision-for-nasa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hutchisons-vision-for-nasa 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: Mr. Walker http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/03/21/hutchisons-vision-for-nasa/#comment-2658 Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:11:17 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=487#comment-2658 >…who apparently didn’t have a wooden stake put through his heart the last time he was killed.

Perhaps some Holy water should be tried. Will he never go away?

]]> By: TORO http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/03/21/hutchisons-vision-for-nasa/#comment-2657 Tue, 22 Mar 2005 04:58:06 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=487#comment-2657 Maybe Abbey will make a better advisor than he did a leader. After all, the space shuttle’s Apollo 13 unincorporated unlearned Apollo 13 lessons are proof that NOBODY, and I do mean NO INDIVIDUAL BODY, as in a person, has led NASA since Apollo 12, 13, …

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/03/21/hutchisons-vision-for-nasa/#comment-2656 Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:27:48 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=487#comment-2656 Unfortunately, according to NASA Watch, she’s getting advice from George Abbey, who apparently didn’t have a wooden stake put through his heart the last time he was killed.

]]> By: Matthew Brown http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/03/21/hutchisons-vision-for-nasa/#comment-2655 Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:39:28 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=487#comment-2655 It appears to me this is a bad thing. The way the article appears to me is she will go for verbage on the shuttle flying untill there is a replacement for it. We’ll have to wait for the hearings, but if this is the case, it will kill the VSE.

The two major bidders for the CEV are Boeing and Lockheed. Who through United Space Alliance (which happens to be HQed in Houston) Operate the shuttle for NASA. If the shuttle still is flying what incentive is there to get the CEV out on time?

The CEV will hopfully be cheaper to operate, and there by give less revenue to Boeing or Lockheed then the shuttle does today.

One may argue that eventually the CEV will bring in more money then the shuttle. But what publicly owned company sacrficies guarenteed short term profits for possile long term gains.

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