http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbIV9celdE

Most of the fighting was over whether or not the authorization committee can impose sequestration or if it’s an appropriations function.

From recent perspectives on human space flight, Mars and the Moon have ruined a lot of peoples days. Now we have even more rocks that’ll do that!

The SBAG conclusions with regard to human space flight were mainly with regard to science. The human space flight part of ARRM simply would not offer much science, they felt. SBAG is not constituted to assess impact mitigation, and they do not try to do so in any depth in their findings.

To the extent that SMD is responsible for impact mitigation, you’re right, however, that there probably should be an impact expert reporting to the AA. The SBAG specifically recommended such an enhancement of SMD planetary defense staffing in their findings. The SBAG also strongly endorses the search for potentially hazardous objects, but is just concerned that such a search is not necessarily the same as the search that ARRM needs.

Note carefully the lack of Small Body Assessment Group proposals for those “alternative” missions, and their complete lack of adequate detection proposals:

http://www.examiner.com/article/small-bodies-assessment-group-finds-fault-with-nasa-asteroid-mission

Well, space not only has the Moon and Mars, it holds tens of thousands of Small Bodies capable or ruining your day.

The opinions of manned Mars flight enthusiasts can not change those facts.
It is way past time that they stop trying to pretend ELE’s have not occurred, and trying to wish impacts away impact here on Earth.

SBAG desperately needs house cleaning, and there needs to be an impact expert reporting directly to the ASScience.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/07/onion-predicts-real-life-republicans-block-nasa-asteroid-lasso-plan

It simply took them longer.

In this economy, you want how many billions spent in your home state or district to fly a few men to Mars?

Let the jokes begin.

Except ours, as of two years ago.

“Space X has flown nobody. “Free Enterprise’ has floen nobody.”

SpaceX just completed two more CCiCap milestones and is on track to complete the rest. So although SpaceX hasn’t flown a human being yet, NASA seems to believe they’re well on their way to doing so. SpaceX will be flying people before any space mission run by our government will.

Putting human beings on rockets used to be what NASA prided itself on. The agency has fortunately decided not to compete in this arena anymore, though the nation still will, and NASA salutes that effort.

Your words here are right now formally correct, but are tiresome because they are just irrelevant. You’re going to have a mouthful of them in a few years when you have to eat them. It’s one thing to eat a lot of words, but stuffing your face with irrelevant ones is even less appetizing. Got ketchup?

Except they’re not.

Space X has flown nobody. “Free Enterprise’ has floen nobody. Government have been flying people into space for over half a century.

America has NASA. NewSpace has nada.

Meanwhile as SLS and Orion are Mark Whittington Nd others version of a welfare queen SpaceX racks up FREE ENTERPRISE orders and changes are happening left and right It’s not new v old space it is save the status quo VTRs dynamic change…the future and its enemies RGO

Robert G Oler Geetings from the Indian Sub Continent

Robert G Oler Greetings from the Indian Sub Continent