Comments on: A busy week of NASA hearings

By: josh

josh — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:02:23 +0000

your hero worship of astronauts is quite amusing…

By: josh

josh — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:01:25 +0000

stafford doesn’t know the first thing about the future of spaceflight. he is a relict, like cernan.

By: josh

josh — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:00:25 +0000

stafford is either ignorant or deliberately misleading. either way, nobody should listen to this has-been.

By: Stephen C. Smith

Stephen C. Smith — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:57:51 +0000

All three hearings are now on YouTube: Senate Space Subcommittee, April 23, 2013 House Space Subcommittee, April 24, 2013 Senate Appropriations Space Subcommittee, April 25, 2013

By: Coastal Ron

Coastal Ron — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:23:10 +0000

DCSCA mumbled:

“Except theyâ€™re not.”

Instead of sounding like a petulant child, why don’t you use real words to describe why you think you are right?

Of course for you to truly understand what was done to “put together” the ISS, you’d have to actually LEARN about the ISS, and that will likely take months.

“if you truly had decades of experience in this firld…”

What’s a “firld”?

And I’m pretty sure I never said I had decades of experience in a “firld”.

By: Rick Boozer

Rick Boozer — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:59:42 +0000

B.S. As is indicated by the fact that we support the position of Aldrin and Schweickart, even though they are of similar age to Stafford. What makes us question Stafford’s reasoning capabilities are his self-contradictory statements.

It is obvious you have never had a course in self-consistent logical reasoning and critical thinking. If I had thought processes as sloppy as yours, I would not be able to do valid and meaningful scientific research.

By: DCSCA

DCSCA — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:57:39 +0000

“maybe stafford is simply going senile and has altzheimers and has forgotten what he once knew?” quips Jame L

More age discrimination from the NewsSpace crowd. Maybe he has forgortten more than you’ll ever know, too. =eyeroll=

By: Jame L

Jame L — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:37:09 +0000

maybe stafford is simply going senile and has altzheimers and has forgotten what he once knew?

By: Stephen C. Smith

Stephen C. Smith — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:30:26 +0000

Dark Blue Nine wrote:

Stafford has either gone senile or is a hypocrite lying to Congress.

I shudder at the thought of General Stafford and Rep. Ralph Hall having a lengthy discourse in open session.

Overall, Stafford held his own in the hearing, but kinda seemed to go off the tracks at that point in the session. Nelson asked him a simple question, which was how to inspire someone on the street to support space. Instead, Stafford goes off on a long rambling blather about heavy-lift and assembly and whatnot. Given his earlier remarks in the hearing, I think he was trying to be rah-rah about an Apollo redux like many in his astronaut generation are. It’s the only paradigm they know. There are exceptions (Aldrin, Schweickart) but most of them are stuck on doing what they did in the 1960s.

By: DCSCA

DCSCA — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 03:27:14 +0000

Having spent decades in the field of manufacturing, the terms â€œbuildâ€ and â€œassembleâ€ are pretty interchangeable

Except they’re not. Especially in this case. and if you truly had decades of experience in this firld, you’d know the diffrence w/respect to space ops.