Comments on: More post-election reaction http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/11/09/more-post-election-reaction/ Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:48:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: reader http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/11/09/more-post-election-reaction/comment-page-1/#comment-141577 reader Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:17:29 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=1808#comment-141577 >>Why do so many articles about the human spaceflight gap almost always present the solution .. Thats easy enough to fix, isnt it ? Write more articles that dont. >>Why do so many articles about the human spaceflight gap almost always present the solution ..

Thats easy enough to fix, isnt it ? Write more articles that dont.

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/11/09/more-post-election-reaction/comment-page-1/#comment-141520 Rand Simberg Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:42:55 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=1808#comment-141520 That's the way it always is with reporting and debate of space policy, e.g., you're either for the space station, or Ares/Orion or (NASA overpriced disastrous pork-project du jour) or you are against human spaceflight. It's always the fallacy of the excluded middle. That’s the way it always is with reporting and debate of space policy, e.g., you’re either for the space station, or Ares/Orion or (NASA overpriced disastrous pork-project du jour) or you are against human spaceflight. It’s always the fallacy of the excluded middle.

]]> By: red http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/11/09/more-post-election-reaction/comment-page-1/#comment-141208 red Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:53:44 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=1808#comment-141208 On the Florida Today article: Why do so many articles about the human spaceflight gap almost always present the solution space as consisting of either extending the Shuttle, or trying to finish the ISS crew access part of Constellation sooner? As Space Politics readers know, there are other options, and there's a good case to be made that some of them are much better options! Unfortunately, I imagine that the portion of the general public that's read this type of articles thinks it's either Shuttle or Constellation. On the Florida Today article:

Why do so many articles about the human spaceflight gap almost always present the solution space as consisting of either extending the Shuttle, or trying to finish the ISS crew access part of Constellation sooner?

As Space Politics readers know, there are other options, and there’s a good case to be made that some of them are much better options! Unfortunately, I imagine that the portion of the general public that’s read this type of articles thinks it’s either Shuttle or Constellation.

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