Comments on: Nelson gets his challenger; Adams loses primary

By: Rand Simberg

Rand Simberg — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:52:40 +0000

Youâ€™re pretty wacky sometimesâ€¦

“Sometimes”?

By: Coastal Ron

Coastal Ron — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:45:02 +0000

amightywind wrote @ August 22nd, 2012 at 11:28 am

“Aviation Week is a well known shill for SpaceX.”

Two things:

1. How is reporting facts equivalent to being a “shill”?

2. Aviation Week makes far more money from ULA, Boeing and Lockheed Martin than they do from SpaceX, so what motivation would they have for being biased?

You’re pretty wacky sometimes…

By: common sense

common sense — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:51:17 +0000

Oh boy! How low will they get? Poor Cernan. What happened to him? Radiation?

Pathetic.

http://nasawatch.com/archives/2012/08/gene-cernan-pre.html

By: amightywind

amightywind — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:28:23 +0000

USAF is considering dual manifesting GPS satellites on Falcons.

Aviation Week is a well known shill for SpaceX. I wouldn’t read much into it.

By: vulture4

vulture4 — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 01:54:19 +0000

Curious what it means. That they should buy more launch vehicles to maintain multiple competitors? Maybe with multiple launches they could afford to build more satellites. I think it makes sense to buy at least some launches from SpaceX.

By: Rhyolite

Rhyolite — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:34:41 +0000

Jeff,

This maybe a topic for another post:

http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/asd_08_17_2012_p03-02-486227.xml

USAF is considering dual manifesting GPS satellites on Falcons. This would be a significant hit to ULA, which relies on GPS for several launches a year. Congress is getting involved:

“Whelan added that some Capitol Hill lawmakers are pressuring the service to maintain competitive opportunities within the launch industry, which can make the multiple-launch strategy less attractive.

â€œWe are not in the business of putting people out of business, that is certainly not our intent,â€ Whelan said.”

By: Ellegood

Ellegood — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:01:21 +0000

Windbag is right! What we need more of in Congress are inflexible ideologues who are convinced that it’s their way or the highway.

By: amightywind

amightywind — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:16:54 +0000

She is well known for respecting the viewpoints of her opponents and developing consensus and teamwork.

Damning with faint praise. You mean she is another faceless bureaucrat that helped create the NASA malaise. We got enough of those in government, thank you.

By: vulture4

vulture4 — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:06:58 +0000

Shannon Roberts (Candidate for Congress and very experienced in the space program) has a get-together at Fish Lips (in Port Canaveral) 4-7 today if anyone would like to meet her.

By: reader

reader — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:32:24 +0000

>>At least he doesnâ€™t claim that U.S. astronauts are flying on Chinese rockets like Adams did.

They don’t have Walmart in Russia yet ?