Comments on: Space Leadership Preservation Act reintroduced; hearing today

By: Neil Shipley

Neil Shipley — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:32:08 +0000

Not only that but I would add that the American public are also pretty frustrated with Congress.

By: josh

josh — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:06:58 +0000

hate to break it to you, mark, but constellation was cancelled years ago and is not coming back. this bill won’t change that.

By: josh

josh — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:05:07 +0000

we know you’re frustrated that constellation got the axe, windy. enjoy your corporate welfare (sls) before it inevitably suffers the same fate.

By: josh

josh — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:46:22 +0000

congress needs to kill sls and boost commercial crew’s budget and stop wasting time on nonsensical pr stunts like this.

By: Dark Blue Nine

Dark Blue Nine — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:53:41 +0000

“Youâ€™ve got to appreciate congressâ€™s frustration at the lack of program continuity in NASA. But NASA is only as good as its governance.”

This is an idiotic comment. Congress governs NASA. Congress provides (or doesn’t) adequate funding. Congress terminates (or doesn’t) NASA programs, like Ares I and Constellation.

Congress has only itself to blame. Congress is frustrated with itself.

By: E. P. Grondine

E. P. Grondine — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:04:14 +0000

Hi AW –

Let me remind you and Mark once again that we could have had DIRECT and 2 manned launch systems with no interruption of our tech base for the billions Griffin wasted on the Ares 1.

I too am saddened but not surprised that our press is unable to report the story of how that came about.

By: amightywind

amightywind — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:47:20 +0000

You’ve got to appreciate congress’s frustration at the lack of program continuity in NASA. But NASA is only as good as its governance. If you elect capacious executive leadership, these are the results.

Houston, we have a problem…

By: E. P. Grondine

E. P. Grondine — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:21:49 +0000

“One has to wonder how the media sat by (both the ordinary media and the professional space/aerospace media) and watched NASA decay in the Bush43 era into amazing torpor and timidity.”

Years ago Private Eye compared the DC press corps to a bunch of piglets bellying up to their sow. You have a swinging door there too between the media and the PR offices. Most of them could not investigate their way out of a paper bag.

If you want anything close to “professional” reporting, you go to Aviation Week, Jane’s, and some other more obscure publications where you have professional reporting. A lot of them are overseas.

I will except our host, Jeff and a few others (and they know who they are), but all in all the reporting is pretty sad.

By: E. P. Grondine

E. P. Grondine — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:59:41 +0000

If the LockMarrt guy were any good, he would have brought up ATK’s failure on X-33’s composite tank.

By: Robert G. Oler

Robert G. Oler — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 03:39:28 +0000

It actually is time for a massive change…we need to break NASA’s HSF efforts down and spend the money on more useful things…I am thinking on this more later…RGO