Comments on: Senators speak on NASA center threats http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/03/22/senators-speak-on-nasa-center-threats/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=senators-speak-on-nasa-center-threats 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: Chris Martel http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/03/22/senators-speak-on-nasa-center-threats/#comment-2678 Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:45:50 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=490#comment-2678 I hear you Kevin and I couldn’t agree more.

]]> By: Kevin Parkin http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/03/22/senators-speak-on-nasa-center-threats/#comment-2677 Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:07:20 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=490#comment-2677 Apologies – both browsers having severe problems posting to this site, will post missing parts later.

]]> By: Kevin Parkin http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/03/22/senators-speak-on-nasa-center-threats/#comment-2676 Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:52:55 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=490#comment-2676 By: Kevin Parkin http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/03/22/senators-speak-on-nasa-center-threats/#comment-2675 Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:50:08 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=490#comment-2675 I think a big part of the problem is that there has been no vision for US aeronautics, no reason for it to exist – it has been adrift with inept leadership for quite some time. A bunch of wind tunnels and a porfolio of delta epsilon incremental improvement programs is insufficient justification for a NASA aeronautics program. In fact it duplicates short term research that is more suitably conducted in industry, thereby harming industry.

For NASA aeronautics to continue to exist it must play a role in something the aerospace industry cannot or will not do on its own: a wider plan of fundamental transformation for US aerospace. If you believe that cramped Boeing-style passenger aircraft flying at

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