Comments on: Is Bolden’s number up? http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/11/28/is-boldens-number-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-boldens-number-up Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Rick Boozer http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/11/28/is-boldens-number-up/#comment-386567 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:08:42 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6048#comment-386567 @EP
Also as far as 73P is concerned. You acted as though I was saying comet impact was not a danger and mentioned Tunguska as if you thought I didn’t know about it. Evidently you didn’t know that several times over the years on this very blog I have mentioned cometary impact is a danger and even used Tunguska as an example of what can happen. The only person acting foolish here is you.

I never said cometary impact was not a danger. Just that 73P certainly isn’t.

]]> By: Rick Boozer http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/11/28/is-boldens-number-up/#comment-386565 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:02:43 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6048#comment-386565 @E.P.
When you don’t back what you say up with evidence and I and nobody else can find evidence of it anywhere. Well …

]]> By: Dave Hall http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/11/28/is-boldens-number-up/#comment-386445 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:54:19 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6048#comment-386445 Coastal Ron: Too bad Musk isn’t available.

Interestingly, I think Musk does forsee politics, or at least diplomacy, in his future. When asked in a recent interview* if any books stand out as being inspirational, he highlighted Walter Isaacson’s “Benjamin Franklin”, so I read it. Although it covers his entrepreneurial and science years, the meat of the story is Franklin’s diplomatic role in the founding of America.

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-s_3b5fRd8
(skip to 7:15)

]]> By: E.P. Grondine http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/11/28/is-boldens-number-up/#comment-386406 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 01:25:06 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6048#comment-386406 Let me restate that.
My opinion: he ain’t gonna get it. Japan is a member of ISS, the last I remembered.

]]> By: E.P. Grondine http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/11/28/is-boldens-number-up/#comment-386405 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 01:05:02 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6048#comment-386405 Back on topic, I see Scoop over at nasawatch is demanding a detailed itinerary for Administrator Bolden’s upcoming trip to Japan.

My opinion: ain’t gonna happen. Japan is a member of ISS, the last I remembered.

]]> By: DCSCA http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/11/28/is-boldens-number-up/#comment-386403 Sun, 02 Dec 2012 23:52:57 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6048#comment-386403 NBC News all but torpedoed the hype the night after they reported it. seems NASA cut the legs out from under one of the hyperventalilating project scientists.

]]> By: E.P. Grondine http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/11/28/is-boldens-number-up/#comment-386375 Sun, 02 Dec 2012 15:30:45 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6048#comment-386375 Hi Rick,

I have gotten a pretty thick skin over the years. Just because you yourselve don’t know something, does not mean that I am “lying” about it.

Neither does the lack of a press release, or any public statement.

I have been through this before, and am going through it now in regards to both the Holocene Start Impact Event and Comet 73P, but this time I’ve been collecting quotes for future use.

My only question for you is, how big of an idiot do you want to become?

]]> By: Coastal Ron http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/11/28/is-boldens-number-up/#comment-386301 Sat, 01 Dec 2012 18:25:52 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6048#comment-386301 E.P. Grondine said:

“Why do you think they would not use that booster as a stand alone launcher?”

The boosters that are being talked about for the SLS are pretty simple, and though they will have to be part of a “human rated” system, it takes more than a single stage dumb rocket to make a payload-capable rocket.

As to your reference about Boeing and Lockheed-Martin, neither been awarded a NASA SLS Advanced Booster contract, so it doesn’t look like either have any interest in making boosters. If they did, then I would imagine they would have their rocket manufacturing joint venture (ULA) submit a bid, but if they did, they didn’t win an award.

There is no evidence that Boeing and Lockheed-Martin want to do anything with rockets beyond what they already are doing with ULA.

]]> By: Rick Boozer http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/11/28/is-boldens-number-up/#comment-386296 Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:51:46 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6048#comment-386296 What news? What official announcement? Give us a link! Just because you have a cathexis for a SLS flyback booster does not mean they are building one.

]]> By: Rick Boozer http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/11/28/is-boldens-number-up/#comment-386295 Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:36:15 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6048#comment-386295 @E.P.
“Why do you think Lock-Mart and Boeing are just go to roll over and play dead in response to SpaceX?”
Again, what makes you think I that I think that will happen? Weird!

“Why do you think that they will not try to come up with the lowest cost booster possible for SLS?”
According to BAH study, they’re not going to be able to get the cost down enough to avoid budget busting.

“Why do you think they would not use that booster as a stand alone launcher?”
Didn’t say they couldn’t. But we were talking about your claim they are working on a flyback first stage booster. They haven’t even made an announcement about that. Give us concrete evidence of such an announcement in the form of an official NASA link or stop the lying.

Again, what planet are you living on?

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