Comments on: Hearings and other upcoming events http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/25/hearings-and-other-upcoming-events/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hearings-and-other-upcoming-events 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: silence dogood http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/25/hearings-and-other-upcoming-events/#comment-306150 Fri, 28 May 2010 06:55:04 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3524#comment-306150 To be sung:
“Oh what a mess,
what a glorious mess.
One man’s mess
is another man’s art.”

]]> By: DCSCA http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/25/hearings-and-other-upcoming-events/#comment-305815 Thu, 27 May 2010 10:42:11 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3524#comment-305815 @RobertGOler- “12 year olds like firefighters and just about everyone.”
Uhhh… Dont confuse your own personal impressions with the rest of the American people.

Uhhh…”the American people love their military they gave up on the astronauts a long time ago. See how few people care about the shuttle coming home.”

Again… uhhh “Dont confuse your own personal impressions with the rest of the American people.”

]]> By: Gary Church http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/25/hearings-and-other-upcoming-events/#comment-305709 Thu, 27 May 2010 03:24:38 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3524#comment-305709 Right on! thanks for the .mil doc. Looks cool; I devour stuff like this. I got the idea for the “Church Ship” from the Medusa project.

]]> By: brobof http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/25/hearings-and-other-upcoming-events/#comment-305658 Wed, 26 May 2010 22:07:34 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3524#comment-305658 Gary Church whilst applauding your Fission Vision two references:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-Mag_Orion which I really hpe gets some funding under the new budget…

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA426465&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf
See the section on Nuclear DC-X.
Naturally the development program would best be located on the Moon cos “Blowups Happen!”

]]> By: Robert G. Oler http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/25/hearings-and-other-upcoming-events/#comment-305564 Wed, 26 May 2010 12:16:00 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3524#comment-305564 DCSCA wrote @ May 26th, 2010 at 7:33 am

12 year olds like firefighters and just about everyone. Dont confuse your own personal impressions with the rest of the American people.

There wont be many people watching the landing

Robert G. Oler

]]> By: DCSCA http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/25/hearings-and-other-upcoming-events/#comment-305555 Wed, 26 May 2010 11:33:16 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3524#comment-305555 @RobertGOler- “the American people love their military they gave up on the astronauts a long time ago.”

Perhaps you have. Most of the astronauts are culled from the military and my 12 year old niece still was thrilled to meet and talk with Dr. Sally Ride. As for the Atlantis landing, this writer knows of several awake, coffee in hand, to watch it on cable or the web.

]]> By: Robert G. Oler http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/25/hearings-and-other-upcoming-events/#comment-305536 Wed, 26 May 2010 08:40:36 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3524#comment-305536 DCSCA wrote @ May 26th, 2010 at 2:10 am
. They love their military and their astronauts….

the American people love their military they gave up on the astronauts a long time ago. See how few people care about the shuttle coming home.

Airplanes in Part 121 service (certificated under part 25) are designed to meet certain performance criteria, the most selective of which is takeoff. The 707 had three engines so that it could make “second segment” climb on takeoff at the weights needed for trans ocean flight.

If a 707 lost two engines going over the “pond” it would have two problems…it could no longer maintain altitude at a flight level consistent with any sort of range and as such it would not have the range to get to its destination or return as the POR was reached.

In the words of the industry it would have a “wet footprint” thats bad

Robert G. Oler

]]> By: Rhyolite http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/25/hearings-and-other-upcoming-events/#comment-305529 Wed, 26 May 2010 07:27:17 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3524#comment-305529 I think that the comments on NASA’s new direction – both for and against – tend to focus too heavily on SpaceX.

As I recall, Orbital actually got a larger share of the station resupply contract than SpaceX. And ULA, with their very reliable Atlas launch vehicle, may be just as well positioned to launch crews with an Orion Lite as SpaceX is with Dragon.

One of the merits of the new direction is that NASA can afford to spread its bets and see who delivers.

]]> By: DCSCA http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/25/hearings-and-other-upcoming-events/#comment-305523 Wed, 26 May 2010 06:10:44 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3524#comment-305523 @RobertGOler- “actually it is quite easy for me to see Congress doing it. The American people have had it with programs that are “welfare” for a particular segment…and have little value for the cost.” Doubtful. They love their military and their astronauts. National pride and all that. Engineers, not as warmly embraced, especially of late as they can’t seem to plug a hole on the ocean floor. The politics move with the tide. Again, in this weak economy with so many jobs in jeopardy, particularly in the Gulf coast region where things are worsening, it’s difficult seeing this Congress killing Constellation as so many contractors are based in that region as well. Killing it outright in an election year seems doubtful.

RE- 707. Recall reading years ago somewhere those four engine jet aircraft could make the transocean trip on two but safety regs required four. This writer liked flying inside a 707. Cigar tube with wings. Had the great accidental opportunity to climb aboard the first PanAm 747 at Heathrow on a press thing back in ’70. Seemed so new then, but the UK was still crowing over Concorde at the time.

]]> By: DCSCA http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/05/25/hearings-and-other-upcoming-events/#comment-305519 Wed, 26 May 2010 05:56:26 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3524#comment-305519 @NASA fan- it is amusing to keep in mind that as Apollo 15 cleared the tower on its first day toward the moon, Master Musk was into his fourth week of life.

@TheMen- “Just count yourself lucky that I’m not in the executive seat yet, because I would ZERO NASA’s human space flight budget without blinking, or even thinking twice about it.”

Fortunately better minds who occupied the corner office- and the Oval Office thought more than twice. That train of thought has been routinely rejected starting 49 years ago today, when JFK gave his speech to Congress launching America, and Apollo, to the moon.

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