Comments on: The latest on INKSNA and extending the shuttle http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/09/07/the-latest-on-inksna-and-extending-the-shuttle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-latest-on-inksna-and-extending-the-shuttle 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: David Stever http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/09/07/the-latest-on-inksna-and-extending-the-shuttle/#comment-108541 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:58:05 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=1721#comment-108541 The ideal thing is to figure out how to get more money into the COTS companies. Monies spent in this way would go farther then money spent extending the shuttle for half a decade, and has the added benefit that while NASA figures out how the hell to make Ares fly, they’d have access to space FOR CHEAP. A year or two down the line, we might figure out what a boondoogle ARES is, and can the whole thing, and go with Atlas and Delta (along with Falcon 9)

]]> By: Chuck2200 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/09/07/the-latest-on-inksna-and-extending-the-shuttle/#comment-102583 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:20:04 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=1721#comment-102583 I think we need both. The extension will guarentee access going forward, and extending shuttle will keep human access to ISS as it has been for the past years. This buts us access AND breathing room. In the mean time, use the resulting breathing room to complete Orion, MINUS the Ares-I. Build Orion to fly on an existing EELV, and reture Shuttle as soon as Orion is operational.

After Orion is flying on an EELV, then we can return our attention to how we really want to go about implimenting the VSE, minus artificial deadlines set by politics devoid of common sense.

]]> By: Adrian http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/09/07/the-latest-on-inksna-and-extending-the-shuttle/#comment-102433 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:55:14 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=1721#comment-102433 I like the prospect of one extra mission to install AMS. more than that just isnt worth the risk.

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