Comments on: House members seek details on SLS/Orion schedules and spending

By: MrEarl

MrEarl — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:52:44 +0000

Thanks for providing this blog where civil discourse was always the order of the day!

Oh my! I’m surprised I got that out with a straight face!

Serious Jeff, thanks for providing a thought provoking and lively forum for those of us interested in space exploration and the political maneuvering required to make it happen.
I now have Space News bookmarked and look forward to your articles.

Best of luck!

By: Dark Blue Nine

Dark Blue Nine — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 01:12:08 +0000

“It is actually phenomenal that the uneducated, uninformed, cynical, blind space exploration know-nothings”

I’ve worked in space program oversight and management for going on two decades. I have advanced degrees in the field. Your background and expertise is in what?

“will no longer have a forum to bloviate on topics”

The record speaks for itself. We’ve spent over a decade pursuing Ares I/Orion and SLS/MPCV, and we’re no closer to a new civil human space flight system, forget an actual human space exploration mission, than we were in 2004. And SLS/MPCV just slipped another year.

That’s not “bloviating”. It’s just the facts.

“not waste our time reading their myopic fantasies.”

Where did I express any personal “fantasy”? And since when is expecting NASA and its political apparatus to be able to execute the first couple steps in the VSE and at least do what it did five decades ago “myopic”?

I’m sorry your STS religion is failing (yet again), but turn that anger in the right direction. I’m just the messenger.

By: Coastal Ron

Coastal Ron — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 20:49:26 +0000

What kind of real job are you going to be looking for?

I’m going to miss Space Politics – it’s been a fun place!

By: Crash Davis

Crash Davis — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:49:18 +0000

“This blog was started (or the archives go back to) the same month that the Vision for Space Exploration was released. It is now sadly fitting that the last two posts on this blog are still dealing with yet another, year-odd delay on yet another hyper-expensive, fragile, Shuttle-derived launch vehicle”

It is actually phenomenal that the uneducated, uninformed, cynical, blind space exploration know-nothings will no longer have a forum to bloviate on topics they have no zero expertise on and will have to find real jobs and not waste our time reading their myopic fantasies.

Good luck Jeff. All the best in your new endeavors.

By: Rhyolite

Rhyolite — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 05:29:14 +0000

Jeff,

Thanks for all of the wonderful posts. Good luck on the new job. I’m going to miss this site and its cast of characters.

Best Regards

By: Dark Blue Nine

Dark Blue Nine — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 02:48:19 +0000

This blog was started (or the archives go back to) the same month that the Vision for Space Exploration was released. It is now sadly fitting that the last two posts on this blog are still dealing with yet another, year-odd delay on yet another hyper-expensive, fragile, Shuttle-derived launch vehicle. Unbelievably, more than ten years and billions of taxpayer dollars later, the nation’s space exploration hopes are still hamstrung by the very kind of launch system that the VSE tried to avoid by directing NASA to shut down STS and leverage commercial providers. Too bad everyone from Griffin to Nelson couldn’t read for comprehension.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Maybe some day, we will learn.

Until then — and until Mr. Foust gets a new blog rolling at SpaceNews — I’ll get my fix of civil human space flight dysfunction by rereading old rocketsandsuch.blogspot entries.

A sincere thanks and all the best for Mr. Foust. Take care.

By: Paul Scutts

Paul Scutts — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 18:32:39 +0000

Jeff,

Oh man, just when I had found a great site with excellent content and a fine bunch of bloggers, everything has to go and change. That’s life, I suppose.

If I joined the others in congratulating you and wishing you all the best, I really would not be telling the truth.

If things don’t work out and sometimes, Jeff, they don’t, you could always get the gang back together.

By: Stephen C. Smith

Stephen C. Smith — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 14:55:02 +0000

So is this when Jeff finally comes out of the closet and admits he’s actually amightywind just to stir things up and increase traffic?

Already in mourning for the loss of my favorite blog.

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 02:06:29 +0000

All the best Jeff. Will miss this site, truly unique.
Cheers,

By: nom de plume

nom de plume — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 22:58:11 +0000

I’m going to miss this site, Jeff’s blog and all you who offer a mix of facts and opinions about space, past, present and future. SpaceNews will benefit with Jeff’s style, and I’m looking forward trying to keep up.