Actually they could indeed be overstocked…last shuttle mission carried one year worth of supply in case commercal cargo was late. The may flight deliverd 1,000 pounds of food/water and other items from dragon(and this cargo was more a lets send something than scheduled delivery).

While dragon could carry 6MT up you would have to pack it full of something very dense to achieve that. Lifesupport(i.e. food/cothing) is a bulky item rather than a heavy one.

Next flight is Jan(after the october flight).

We can all thank the idiots in the tea party and other crusaders of the right wing of the GOP”

Yep.

Use your common sense. That toy never lives up to its own hyped press releases. They’ll find a good excuse- the ISS is overstocked; they’re dieting up there… But hey,Master Musk says them thare Dragons will be takin’ millions of retirees to Mars. =eyeroll=

I have no idea what “The Wrecking Crew” is, any more than I (or, I suspect, you) know what a “neocon” is.

Yes. Like I wrote above, within the cut to the “Science” account, NASA and the White House can decide whether that cut falls entirely on JWST, or the Mars Exploration Program, or 50/50, or something else entirely.

Sequestration is actually one of the few things that the GOP house and party as a whole has done in the last two years which has been a service to The Republic…instead of their narrow party ambitions.

Naturally, they’re fighting tooth and nail to avoid having to follow through with it.

Still, if the cuts in the Exploration account are focussed on SLS / Orion, it would further increases the probability of eventual cancellation. Every little bit helps. The competitive procurement approach can always be revived, the Shuttle political industrial complex not so much.

I wrote:
“and it wont hurt NASA all that much as long as Charlie gets a backbone (yeah Charlie this is your moment) and says “OK this is where I cut and does it….If all it is is across the board cuts to all programs…well no balls.”

DBN
The cuts from sequestration are across-the-board by account

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But I am correct that in an “account” issue not an across the board cut in the various programs in an “account”?

Robert G. Oler

“The administration will decide where to cut, unless Congress passes a new appropriation bill, which isn’t going to happen.”

You sure about that? I doubt if that is what The Wrecking Crew has in mind.