Er … no he did not. I believe the actual quote was :

‘I just have to say pretty bluntly here, we’ve been there before’

which hardly forbids any return. But heckava lie there Mr. Castro!

So much for your ‘facts’. Have you ever considered reality? It works for me.

We didn’t need to out-Von Braun Von Braun. DIRECT Jupiter would have been enough to have gotten us back to the moon, and prepping to go on to Mars. But no, Griffin imposed his will on the data, and lied to the American Public AND to Congress, by massaging the data, and in some cases, putting a thumb on the scales, and claiming that DIRECT Jupiter “defied the laws of physics”… Well, I don’t give a rat’s rosy red rear how many degrees that man had, he had no clue what he was doing, and darn near killed NASA doing it. If the remaining Griffinites at NASA want to keep treading down that path to Ares all over again by building a rocket that nobody could ever afford to fly, then we just will have to do without the agency. Because that’s what will happen if they don’t get on with building DIRECT Jupiter. Period. No way around it.

NASA, don’t foul this one up, this is your LAST chance. The Senate said, “Here is what you get. Build a rocket with this.” which is how it ought to be done, instead of “we want to build this ginormous rocket, give us three times what it will cost!” NASA, you get what you need, shut up and build the rocket… Don’t try to tell us that you don’t know how to build rockets with the available resources. Because if you try to claim that it can’t be done, then you don’t need to have any rockets. We’ll let the Russians go to ISS, and the Indians and the Chinese tramp all over our Apollo sites.

Mr Oler,

When you made your “interesting” comment, you didn’t know the status of the crew (whether they were injured or worse)…

the crew of what? The Train….

what crew?

Robert G. Oler

I’m pretty sure the train engineers had a sore ass from the bump, Meg, thank you so much for your ‘concern’ about some Russian train engineers. What would be great is if you took as much concern about US astronauts riding on top of, or in the side of, segmented shuttle solid rocket boosters.

When you made your “interesting” comment, you didn’t know the status of the crew (whether they were injured or worse). Down play it anyway you want but most of the long termed readers know about your behavior.