Comments on: Ten (and three) years later… http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/02/01/ten-and-three-years-later/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ten-and-three-years-later 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: Jeff Foust http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/02/01/ten-and-three-years-later/#comment-397203 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 19:12:02 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6188#comment-397203 Since this conversation has devolved to people accusing each other of mental illness (“little voice in your head”), it’s time to terminate this discussion thread.

]]> By: JimNobles http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/02/01/ten-and-three-years-later/#comment-397200 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:51:46 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6188#comment-397200 Got a link to that statement that you say “believe I recently saw”?

No I don’t but it was one of the more recent ISS related press conferences on NASA TV. I don’t usually save link info for something that routine. Or really much of anything at all. Those of us who try to keep up with these sorts of things already knew that NASA didn’t seem to have any problems with the investigation results of the F9 engine shut down anomaly. To hear that the next F9 launch to ISS was still on schedule was not a surprise.

If you really want to watch it you can probably find it on the NASA TV site.

]]> By: joe http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/02/01/ten-and-three-years-later/#comment-397199 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:42:41 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6188#comment-397199 Yes, I see the little voices in your head are telling you that you can read people’s minds again.

Check back when they subside and if you ever manage to have anything substantive to say.

]]> By: guestagain http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/02/01/ten-and-three-years-later/#comment-397198 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:35:35 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6188#comment-397198 So far the only one who spends a lot of money is the government. We’ve been hearing that SPace-X is sending men to mars within ten years, but for some reason even they are waiting for the government money to advance their spacecraft. I, for one, have some confidence that Mr. Musk will eventually make good on his word. I am enthused that he is moving as quickly as he is and that he seems to be doing it with a lot less money than the government and Orion, for example. However, I’d like to see Space-X develop the commercial or private backing to make it happen in all due haste, instead of waiting on government money. Maybe Paul has similar feelings. He’d be happy for anyone to do the job, but our expectations after 50 years is that only the guvamint is spending. I also think that all of us would like to see in-situ resource use and that includes for fuel and oxidizer, and I don’t know why you think Paul does not support fuel depots. Has he said something that I’ve missed? Paul has been a supporter of a Shuttle derived booster for many years, since when it would have been relatively easy and inexpensive to develop a Shuttle derived booster.

]]> By: Coastal Ron http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/02/01/ten-and-three-years-later/#comment-397193 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:00:05 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6188#comment-397193 joe said:

“Actually there is this trivial technicality called a Flight Readiness Review (FRR)”

Oh, Joe.

You know perfectly well the topic is NASA’s review of the Falcon 9 engine anomaly. NASA is satisfied enough with the information and briefing they received from SpaceX that they will let the planning for the next CRS flight proceed – and yes, that would include all the normal things that they would normally do. No one said otherwise.

But apparently the voices in your head started whispering to you that SpaceX was, yet again, somehow trying to do something nefarious…

]]> By: joe http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/02/01/ten-and-three-years-later/#comment-397187 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:33:58 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6188#comment-397187 Got a link to that statement that you say “believe I recently saw”?

]]> By: JimNobles http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/02/01/ten-and-three-years-later/#comment-397186 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:14:37 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6188#comment-397186 I believe I recently saw Suffredini explicitly state that they (NASA) didn’t know of anything that would delay the early March Falcon 9 flight.

]]> By: Coastal Ron http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/02/01/ten-and-three-years-later/#comment-397181 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:05:46 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6188#comment-397181 amightywind blushed:

“I’d say PS is the foremost lunar scientist in the world.”

No doubt, he is an acknowledge geologist and lunar scientist.

“I’d say his opinion carries weight.”

If the topic is the composition of lunar material, and it’s history, no doubt.

But regarding the best way to expand human presence out into space, he his opinions don’t carry much (if any) weight. For instance, he fails to understand “why” politicians fund government programs, and he has an unnatural obsession with the Bush VSE.

]]> By: Robert G. Oler http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/02/01/ten-and-three-years-later/#comment-397177 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:52:59 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6188#comment-397177 Coastal Ron
February 3, 2013 at 3:12 am · Reply

Paul is also too invested in the Moon to be unbiased about the economics of his proposals, and he is also too invested in the government being the lead for doing anything space-related to have any rational thoughts about non-governmental efforts (i.e. the commercial sector).>>

What I find funny about the issues here is that the “big government” types cannot see the floundering of that model.

Its really quite stunning to me RGO

]]> By: JimNobles http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/02/01/ten-and-three-years-later/#comment-397176 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:51:25 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6188#comment-397176 It’s 2013. Fly somebody. Tick-tock, tick-tock.

Right now it looks like the next people to fly into orbit on an American system will be company employees rather than civil servants. And years before the government system is scheduled to fly anyone.

What will you say then? “Commercial hasn’t sent anyone to the moon! C’mon, get someone there. Tick-tock, tick-tock.”
Is that they way this tick-tock thing works?

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