|
|
Post by cos on Nov 13, 2009 17:19:12 GMT -4
|
|
|
|
Post by cos on Mar 2, 2010 10:30:01 GMT -4
|
|
|
|
Post by PhantomWolf on Mar 2, 2010 17:09:32 GMT -4
Old news. Not that it matters, Obama has effectively killed the return missions.  |
|
|
|
Post by bazbear on Mar 14, 2010 1:23:58 GMT -4
Old news. Not that it matters, Obama has effectively killed the return missions. A sad turn of events, killing Constellation is very short sighted, even if going back to the moon isn't it's goal. Now we buy rides from the Russians (not that using Soyuz is a bad thing in and of itself), and HOPE USA civilian space technology can find a safe, efficient, human-rated way to LEO? I know I've bitched about the Shuttle on this forum, in a couple of threads, but retiring that unique workhorse and not even replacing them with "simpler" systems, so that the USA can put people into space is a travesty. The break between Apollo and the Shuttle may have been unavoidable; but this break in the ability of the USA to send humans into space will be due to lack of will and vision at the highest levels. |
|
Jason
Pluto
May all your hits be crits
Posts: 5,579
|
Post by Jason on Mar 15, 2010 11:33:32 GMT -4
The break between Apollo and the Shuttle may have been unavoidable; but this break in the ability of the USA to send humans into space will be due to lack of will and vision at the highest levels. Yep, pretty much. |
|
|
|
Post by Jason Thompson on Mar 15, 2010 13:30:45 GMT -4
Gene Kranz said in the recent Discovery Channel series covering NASA's greatest missions, that the space program was there to raise our aspirations to that which is possible ' if we will commit'. Well, I guess we won't commit. |
|
|
|
Post by Apollo Gnomon on Mar 31, 2010 14:52:51 GMT -4
Maybe we should license the Soyuz design from the Russians and build our own. It's a proven design, a fairly flexible family of craft, and the ISS is already built to accommodate it.
And it looks more like a dildo than anything WE've ever designed. Surely that must count for something.
|
|
