normally what you say is accurate…but this year is very very strange in the GOP nomination field. There is the standard establishment candidate, Willard and then their is the candidate of the “base”. Normally this person would lose; but Willard is so unliked and the base of the GOP has shurnk to such a small exclusive club, that they might be able if they can concentrate on a single candidate to have a “base candidate” be competitive.

it is going to be fascinating to watch the next two to three weeks…If Newt is going to become the anti willard candidate; he will do it then. And in my view he has a good chance of doing that. Herman’s performance with women is not all that important in the GOP ranks…but he is starting to flounder in regular events…like the recent interview on Libya.

Robert

come on again, U guys look at all the experience Russia has and they have lost their Phobos probe. >>

they dont have all that much experience with long lived uncrewed vehicles…I cant think of a GLONASS or WX sat of theirs that has lasted longer then Phobos had to last to complete its mission. US satellites are quite long lived. commercial and government. RGO

so you dont think Herman is going to win the Iowa caucus? Who do you think will

The Iowa caucus usually goes to the candidate who can best organize his/her people to turn out and vote. They don’t go to polls. They usually go to a home, school, church, whatever.

Does Cain have any kind of effective organization on the ground in Iowa? He strikes more as a guy who’s out for publicity than someone capable of organizing an effective political campaign.

Obama could have easily kept the shuttles flying if he acted decisively after being sworn in. When given the opportunity, he opted to keep Bush policies in place, just like he has on so many other issues. I for one am glad Obama followed Bush’s lead with CCDEV.

You have no clue what you’re talking about.

The government stopped making external tanks in 2008, before Obama took office. The Obama administration looked at what it would take to restart the assembly line. It would have been three years to produce another tank, and meanwhile NASA would have spent $3 billion a year paying the standing army of contractors to sit around polishing the chrome.

This also overlooks the basic fact that the Columbia Accident Investigation Board concluded in 2003 that the Shuttle is “a complex and risky system,” which is why the Bush administration decided to shut it down once the ISS was completed. Shuttle had already killed 14 people. CAIB recommended safer and more efficient systems, a recommendation adopted by Bush and continued by the current administration.

You have no proof of this. Your view through the knothole and your interpretation of what you see is not reality and is actually, very far apart. Since your only source of info is from the internet, you don’t have a clue what is really going on.

Perhaps one of these days, someone who writes about space for a living will actually talk to one of the candidates instead of relying on the AP or some equally unknowledgeable news organization to ask the right questions.

Remember that whatever ignorance Cain or anyone else has is filtered through the ignorance of the journolister asking the questions.

Nice job Rand…really well done RGO

Drogues are due to deploy around Thanksgiving with main chutes around New Years and splash scheduled for the day after the Iowa caucuses.”

so you dont think Herman is going to win the Iowa caucus? Who do you think will RGO

However the truth is that Obama had no choice. It was not just a matter of delay; . As long as the Shuttle was flying, it cost relatively little to continue it and it made sense to continue until a replacement was operational. But by 2008, restarting Shuttle would take years and suck up the money that was needed to start a new human launch program. The loss of the original tooling and suppliers meant that the sunk costs would have to be spent again.

Sandy Adams recently made a speech taking credit for the investment being made in commercial crew, a program she opposed. She did not mention that the Administration had anything to do with it. All that counts on the Space Coast is politics. Logic is not the issue.