Comments on: Briefly: Feinstein, ESA, and the search for compromise http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/06/10/briefly-feinstein-esa-and-the-search-for-compromise/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=briefly-feinstein-esa-and-the-search-for-compromise 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: Space Politics » Letters, we get letters http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/06/10/briefly-feinstein-esa-and-the-search-for-compromise/#comment-312217 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:51:56 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3611#comment-312217 […] to an asteroid and beyond, as you said in Florida.” This is apparently the letter that a Houston Chronicle article referred to earlier this month as part of a shift to “political […]

]]> By: puzzled http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/06/10/briefly-feinstein-esa-and-the-search-for-compromise/#comment-310394 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:02:50 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3611#comment-310394 An interesting item: Paine’s anemic 3.5 billion in 70/71 cut down from the Glory Days and on which it was hard to do much except that much-maligned Option 3 is roughly the same, adjusting for inflation, as the 18 billion we’re stuck with today…

Item 2: competing with NASA funding was a Vietnam War that was eating everything in sight, and although deficit spending was in vogue there was still a lot of inertia opposing the kinds of deficits we are running today. (man this ought to bring folks out of the woodwork…)

]]> By: Nachrichten aus der Raumfahrt kompakt « Skyweek Zwei Punkt Null http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/06/10/briefly-feinstein-esa-and-the-search-for-compromise/#comment-309914 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:17:23 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3611#comment-309914 […] Die Nachfrage nach Starts sei hier zu klein. (Space X Press Release 7.6.2010; Popular Mechanics, Space Policy 10., Orlando Sentinel, Flight Global, Orion 9., Space Politics 8., The Space Review, Tracker, […]

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/06/10/briefly-feinstein-esa-and-the-search-for-compromise/#comment-309847 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:46:37 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3611#comment-309847 I’ll take that as a compliment from a Nixon lover like yourself.

I’m not a Nixon lover. Nixon was an awful president. But unlike you, I am a reality lover.

]]> By: DCSCA http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/06/10/briefly-feinstein-esa-and-the-search-for-compromise/#comment-309807 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:29:54 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3611#comment-309807 @SpaceCadet- The point was, they did have a manned lunar program, and Sir Bernard was incorrect in his assessment and lied to by his Soviet hosts. They had cosmonaut training, spacecraft in work and, of course, the ill-fated N-1. The fact that they never could pull it all together isn’t in question.

]]> By: Space Cadet http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/06/10/briefly-feinstein-esa-and-the-search-for-compromise/#comment-309801 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:47:04 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3611#comment-309801 @DCSCA

“[In 1964] Sir Bernard Lovell, director of Britain’s Jodrell Bank Observatory, returned from a visit to the USSR with the impression there was no Soviet manned lunar program. [He was told] the USSR was concentrating on space tations and unmanned exploration.” – source, Walter McDougall, “… the Heavens and the Earth.”

You’re in good company; Sir Bernard was wrong, too”

To be fair to Sir Bernard, the USSR in fact built several space stations, sent unmanned missions to the Moon and Venus, but never launched a manned mission to the Moon.

]]> By: Marcel F. Williams http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/06/10/briefly-feinstein-esa-and-the-search-for-compromise/#comment-309799 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:25:07 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3611#comment-309799 @Simberg

I’ll take that as a compliment from a Nixon lover like yourself:-)

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/06/10/briefly-feinstein-esa-and-the-search-for-compromise/#comment-309782 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:21:07 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3611#comment-309782 Sorry, but the nightmare of Nixon’s policies was no fantasy.

You are a loon. But the looniness of your posts is certainly no fantasy.

]]> By: Marcel F. Williams http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/06/10/briefly-feinstein-esa-and-the-search-for-compromise/#comment-309780 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:07:26 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3611#comment-309780 Sorry, but the nightmare of Nixon’s policies was no fantasy. And, unfortunately, Obama is trying his best to be Nixon Jr. when it comes to NASA.

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/06/10/briefly-feinstein-esa-and-the-search-for-compromise/#comment-309778 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:46:01 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3611#comment-309778 Nixon crippled NASA’s ability to fly beyond LEO</eM.

Why do you continue to indulge in historical fantasies? Just because you hate Nixon?

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