Comments on: A week until the new fiscal year—and the threat of a shutdown http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/09/24/a-week-until-the-new-fiscal-year-and-the-threat-of-a-shutdown/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-week-until-the-new-fiscal-year-and-the-threat-of-a-shutdown 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: DCSCA http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/09/24/a-week-until-the-new-fiscal-year-and-the-threat-of-a-shutdown/#comment-425879 Sat, 28 Sep 2013 22:22:24 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6604#comment-425879 ‘True, apparently, since Wendy Whatsername’s useless filibuster to preserve the right of women to kill their babies was acclaimed nationwide, while Ted Cruz’s was a (to quote that great statesman, Harry Reid) “waste of time.”

This is rhe sort of commentary reaffirms why the anti-goverbment space wags are really just anti-government across te board.

]]> By: Stephen C. Smith http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/09/24/a-week-until-the-new-fiscal-year-and-the-threat-of-a-shutdown/#comment-425759 Sat, 28 Sep 2013 10:23:21 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6604#comment-425759 It was conceived during the Bush administration after Columbia. The Aldridge Commission was the one that came up with the competition idea. The Bush administration opened the C3PO office in November 2005, and Michael Griffin gave a speech in 2006 in which he said he was the one who approached Elon Musk, Bob Bigelow, and others. The first COTS contracts were issued in 2006 and 2007.

That said, the commercial program wasn’t taken seriously until the Obama administration came in. Commercial crew was on paper under Bush but unfunded. The reason is that the Bush administration planned to deorbit the ISS in 2016 to pay for Constellation, ergo no need for commercial vehicles. The Obama administration saved the ISS by cancelling Constellation, and primed the pump for commercial cargo/crew to have delivery vehicles.

]]> By: mr. mark http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/09/24/a-week-until-the-new-fiscal-year-and-the-threat-of-a-shutdown/#comment-425675 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 20:04:01 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6604#comment-425675 I would argue that NewSpace is not a President Obama idea. It was conceived many years before the current administration and COTS was put into place in the Bush years.

]]> By: DCSCA http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/09/24/a-week-until-the-new-fiscal-year-and-the-threat-of-a-shutdown/#comment-425674 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 19:45:15 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6604#comment-425674 Consider yourself lucky– Cruz noted that had his parents made differnt choices, he’d be representing Florida, not Texas

]]> By: Gregori http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/09/24/a-week-until-the-new-fiscal-year-and-the-threat-of-a-shutdown/#comment-425650 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:35:53 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6604#comment-425650 Women are not selfless incubators…

]]> By: Hiram http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/09/24/a-week-until-the-new-fiscal-year-and-the-threat-of-a-shutdown/#comment-425575 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:50:10 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6604#comment-425575 That being said, it’s useful to consider the penalties of preexisting conditions on prospects for insuring a future for U.S. human space flight. NASA has a whole lot of them that will cost a lot to fix, many of which would have been avoidable had the agency been weaned early of bad fiscal habits and adopted healthy policies. In this case, a “single-payer” system has gotten us in a pretty deep hole.

]]> By: Coastal Ron http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/09/24/a-week-until-the-new-fiscal-year-and-the-threat-of-a-shutdown/#comment-425567 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:05:06 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6604#comment-425567 DocM said:

“The problem is this is a battle over principles, that Obama Care is…”

You’re on the wrong blog. This is SPACE Politics, not OBAMACARE Politics.

]]> By: common sense http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/09/24/a-week-until-the-new-fiscal-year-and-the-threat-of-a-shutdown/#comment-425560 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:39:57 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6604#comment-425560 Yes I suppose the well meaning God fearing Brevard residents should oppose the choices offered by the law.

]]> By: amightywind http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/09/24/a-week-until-the-new-fiscal-year-and-the-threat-of-a-shutdown/#comment-425559 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:34:23 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6604#comment-425559 GDub initiated Project Constellation. ISS servicing, and indeed the program, was an afterthought to be done by the cheapest means possible so that the US space program could concentrate on the moon mission. Obama made Newspace the centerpiece of his faux program.

]]> By: common sense http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/09/24/a-week-until-the-new-fiscal-year-and-the-threat-of-a-shutdown/#comment-425558 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:34:08 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6604#comment-425558 Talk about off topic.

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