Comments on: NASA to Congress: don’t “pour money” into NEO programs http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/03/20/nasa-to-congress-dont-pour-money-into-neo-programs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nasa-to-congress-dont-pour-money-into-neo-programs 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: A M Swallow http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/03/20/nasa-to-congress-dont-pour-money-into-neo-programs/#comment-406029 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:48:42 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6298#comment-406029 If the NEO hit Africa the shelter may have saved your life. You can then help rebuild civilization.

]]> By: Grandpa Dave http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/03/20/nasa-to-congress-dont-pour-money-into-neo-programs/#comment-405959 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:24:46 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6298#comment-405959 Yes… I sent a summer in the 1950s building a fallout shelter. We live 40 miles across the lake from Chicago. Those were the days when the Nike-Zeus’s were lining Lakeshore Drive in Chi-town.

I don’t think our shelter would have saved our butts from a huge NEO. Anyway, why would you want to survive and die later like Dino-the-Dinosaur. Just lean back and enjoy what time you have left.

IMHO, all of this NEO effort is a huge waste of taxpayer’s money. Invest the monies into other wasteful government programs. Our current POTUS and his friends in the Senate, Poor-old Harry, will have no problems investing your taxpayer monies!

]]> By: Grandpa Dave http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/03/20/nasa-to-congress-dont-pour-money-into-neo-programs/#comment-405926 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:16:41 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6298#comment-405926 Sorry… My tongue was stuck in my cheek.

]]> By: A M Swallow http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/03/20/nasa-to-congress-dont-pour-money-into-neo-programs/#comment-405837 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:38:07 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6298#comment-405837 Dark Blue Nine wrote:

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/464826main_SEV_FactSheet_508.pdf

Per that factsheet, MMSEV only supports a two-person crew for 14 days, not three years. And it only carries RCS propellant and engines, not main propellant or engine for significant delta-V.

That is the one. You do not spend the 3 years in the MMSEV but in the mother ship I specified. Only when you get to the NEO do the astronauts open the hatches and enter the MMSEV.

]]> By: common sense http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/03/20/nasa-to-congress-dont-pour-money-into-neo-programs/#comment-405785 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:17:33 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6298#comment-405785 Yes you do… err.. are.

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/03/20/nasa-to-congress-dont-pour-money-into-neo-programs/#comment-405775 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:48:45 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6298#comment-405775 No, not really.

]]> By: common sense http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/03/20/nasa-to-congress-dont-pour-money-into-neo-programs/#comment-405773 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:30:44 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6298#comment-405773 “Because the media has a swooning love affair with it.”

I see.

A little shallow on argument today?

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/03/20/nasa-to-congress-dont-pour-money-into-neo-programs/#comment-405771 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:21:58 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6298#comment-405771 Well, good luck with that.

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/03/20/nasa-to-congress-dont-pour-money-into-neo-programs/#comment-405770 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:20:35 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6298#comment-405770 Because the media has a swooning love affair with it.

]]> By: Grandpa Dave http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/03/20/nasa-to-congress-dont-pour-money-into-neo-programs/#comment-405768 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:18:57 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6298#comment-405768 AW,
Brue Willis and a team of blue-collar deep-core drillers have experience in NEOs. In 1998 they flew a Space Shuttle mission and intercepted a huge asteroid. But I believe Mr. Willis did not return. My memory escapes me.
G-pa

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