Comments on: Reaction to the House’s decision

By: mr. mark

mr. mark — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:45:04 +0000

Even though amightwind and I rarely agree on anything, I believe he has a right to express his opinion. That’s what this website is for, free and open speech. Now if someone threatens someone or goes beyond the rules of this site that is a different thing. Everyone should have the right to express his opinion even though other members here may not agree with them.

By: Patrick Beatty

Patrick Beatty — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:48:03 +0000

Just gave my rep a call. Can’t hurt.

By: RaumAdvokat

RaumAdvokat — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:44:58 +0000

Jeff, when are you going to ban “amightywind?” Free speech is one thing, but this guy brings nothing to the party but error, falsehood, negativity, and conservative talking points. I suppose some enjoy watching trolls embarass themselves, but many more don’t. The guy just takes up space that could be better used by others. Please do something about this. Unless you do, I fear you will lose the informed comments here.

By: Dennis Berube

Dennis Berube — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:01:35 +0000

Im just saying Russia has paved the way into space many time throughout history. Until now I didnt realize they also paved the way for commercial. Now they want to put a commercial space station up by 2016. Will they beat Bigelow and Musk?

By: Ben Russell-Gough

Ben Russell-Gough — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:10:18 +0000

@ Dennis Berube,

They took paying customers to Mir too. I seem to remember about them flying a Japanese journalist up to the station in the early-90s. However, Dennis Tito was in the mid- to late-90s.

By: Dennis Berube

Dennis Berube — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:13:50 +0000

Yes, how long has Russia now been taking paying customers to the ISS? They truly started commercial didnt they? At first NASA wanted nothing to do with it, but now have gone along with the idea. Russia rakes in the cash while we watch……

By: Googaw

Googaw — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:26:17 +0000

most likely 2011 will be the start of the commercial space age.

And here I thought it started in the 1960s.

Silly me. I forgot that if there’s no astronaut involved, it doesn’t exist.

By: Bennett

Bennett — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:23:09 +0000

mr. mark wrote @ September 28th, 2010 at 10:36 pm

Oh, I’m with you on that, but I also think Beancounter from Downunder has it sussed.

By: Beancounter from Downunder

Beancounter from Downunder — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:53:34 +0000

Yeah I agree with you on that Bennett. Ken would’nt be doing zilch. He’s busy doing everything possible short of building the Crew Dragon, to get SpaceX to the best position possible when a crew program of sorts is up for grabs.

By: mr. mark

mr. mark — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:36:07 +0000

Bennett – If we believe it or not is unimportant. The Spacex astronaut safety office has to do with processing Spacex Dragon cargo by ISS astronauts not at this time Spacex astronauts which have never been selected as there is no official Spacex human rated spacecraft or program. There are also no mockups of a human Dragon spacecraft as well. There also is no timeline proposed for Human Dragon spacecraft development and there is definitely no human rated dragon hardware in the chain. Which adds up to a big fat zero. The only real technology is for a very real cargo Dragon spacecraft which is sitting at the cape undergoing processing for a early November launch right now. That’s the difference between vision and policy. A vision is a dream of a CEO or corporation. A policy is something you are implementing. It’s clear Spacex is implementing a cargo and satelitte launch policy and they are achieving those goals. It is yet to be seen what will become of Elon Musk’s vision. With the right funding sure, Spacex could launch a manned program but, that funding is not there yet.