Comments on: Shelby 1, Griffin 0 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/05/25/shelby-1-griffin-0/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shelby-1-griffin-0 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: Donald F. Robertson http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/05/25/shelby-1-griffin-0/#comment-14373 Tue, 29 May 2007 18:01:54 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/05/25/shelby-1-griffin-0/#comment-14373 Anonymous, very good point. I hadn’t thought of that.

— Donald

]]> By: anonymous http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/05/25/shelby-1-griffin-0/#comment-14229 Sat, 26 May 2007 05:05:14 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/05/25/shelby-1-griffin-0/#comment-14229 “but Dr. Griffin apparently has suggested that these folks could be kept busy studying the comsats and LPS (Lunar Positioning System) that a permanent presence on the moon would require. . . .”

So much for Griffin’s space commercialization speeches about having industry deliver these kinds of support capabilities to a future lunar polar base.

Sad. Really sad.

]]> By: Christine http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/05/25/shelby-1-griffin-0/#comment-14219 Sat, 26 May 2007 02:25:02 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/05/25/shelby-1-griffin-0/#comment-14219 What about NASA isn’t an ‘almost complete waste of money’ nowadays?

]]> By: Donald F. Robertson http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/05/25/shelby-1-griffin-0/#comment-14190 Fri, 25 May 2007 18:07:03 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/05/25/shelby-1-griffin-0/#comment-14190 This is an almost complete waste of money, but Dr. Griffin apparently has suggested that these folks could be kept busy studying the comsats and LPS (Lunar Positioning System) that a permanent presence on the moon would require. . . .

— Donald

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