but after 53 t falcon heavy …no longer..

maybe nasa have to give most money to payloads in space spacecrafts robots etc.

thats my opinion as a simple space enthusiast..

and leave Heavy launchers to Spacex..

“You are very perceptive.”

Yep, just don’t forget it

“But don’t worry. I’ll soon be back to full strength.”

I don’t. I’ve seen your desperate yet entertaining enthusiasm before and I expect more. I wonder if you can best yourself though. Because this tired tirade was not very good you know. But in all cases be well soon, I don’t want to miss the fun. Skiing was not all that fun then? Could it be a bug from Global Warming? Nah, come to think of it if you don’t believe there is any then there cannot be any bug related to Global Warming in the air.

“This spring season of politics is going to the best best in a long time.”

I am not so sure about that. Well let me rephrase. You may make it entertaining as always but substantially speaking it does not look that interesting. More government shutdown on the horizon? More political nonsense when they make history and cut another few billions putting more people at risk with health coverage and retirement and job loss? It seems to me that some one already pronounced the last rites for this Congress. I am personally more interested in the next presidential elections. Trump vs Romney vs Palin vs Bachman. At least there is hope we don’t have Palin now that Trump may be running. But it gives a clear idea of the depth of the political discourse from the GOP. I am not sure it still qualifies as “depth” though. I digress sorry. Well maybe we’ll see Hutchinson ask Bolden yet another time whether NASA is wasting money. The real fun would be if he says yes but it won’t happen. Too bad.

Anyway, again be well soon.

Even I couldn’t have said this more eloquently.”

You also couldn’t be more out of date. That article is 14 months — over a year — old.

It’s one thing to live in the past. It’s another to argue from it.

“Now is the time to kill hobbyspace.”

Agreed. The amateurs in the Senate should not be designing the SLS.

Sigh…

I know this may surprise people but there are hundreds of scientists and engineers at NASA with good ideas who can’t get a thin dime because their projects, however valuable they might be to real people here on earth, aren’t in the “critical path” to send a few civil servants to Mars.

On the bright side, the current crop of space launch companies seem competent and may actually succeed despite the best efforts of “small government” advocates like Senator Shelby and Congressman Posey.

You are very perceptive. It is both a low day and I am under the weather. But don’t worry. I’ll soon be back to full strength. This spring season of politics is going to the best best in a long time.

As for the final disposition of the shuttles: One for KSC. They should build a facility like they have for the Saturn V. Nice. One for the Smithsonian. No brainer. One will go somewhere unexpected as an Obama political payoff. Sorry to disappoint you JSC, but you didn’t take very good care of the Saturn V you were given. I was disappointed to see it covered with pigeon droppings. Good night!

“Thanks for the link Dan Woodward.”

Indeed. From the article:

“…Shelby blasted those companies and said rocket science was so complicated that it requires a government program.”

So here we have a senior Republican saying that government is the answer? I guess you can’t judge a book by it’s cover, or in this case, a Senator by his party affiliation.

Of course Shelby is oblivious to the fact that the satellite industry doesn’t rely on government programs, and that every major piece of space hardware has been built by commercial companies – paid for by government programs, but the talent is with the industry, not the government. Clearly he’s bloviating.

No wonder Windy identifies with Shelby so much…