Typical Bobbert....

On Saturday, October 27, 2012 5:38:38 AM UTC-7, bob haller wrote:
On Oct 26, 10:13*pm, "Greg \(Strider\) Moore"

wrote:

"Robert Clark" *wrote in message



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On Oct 23, 1:16 pm, Matt Wiser wrote:



On Tuesday, October 23, 2012 9:54:26 AM UTC-7, Robert Clark wrote:

On Oct 23, 1:40 am, "Matt Wiser" wrote:



Big problem for anti-SLS types: NO political support. There's a grand

total



of one congresscritter who's on record as opposing SLS: Rep. Dana



Rohrabacher (R-CA). And his motives are not entirely pu Space X

has a



facility in his district, and there's several commercial space

outfits with



facilities in SoCal, and no doubt some of his constitutents work at

those



firms.



Nice try, though....



*Unlike many supporters of commercial space I'm neutral on the



question of the SLS. My view is that commercial space will go on



whether or not the SLS is funded.



*Also, in an upcoming blog post I'll discuss that the very first



versions of the SLS scheduled to launch in 2017 will be able to launch



manned lunar missions.



* Bob Clark



Which *is something that NASA intends to to: The first human Orion/SLS

mission

will *be Lunar Orbit. Maybe two or three lunar orbit flights of longer

duration before

going *to L-2 or this President's precious NEO mission. I'm still a "Moon

First" type,

though..



After I wrote that post, I realized I left out a key word: with the

first launch of the SLS in 2017 we will have the capability to launch

manned LANDER lunar missions. This will be important since it will

provide an important, definite mission for the SLS from the very first

launch. The SLS has been called a "rocket to nowhere". That in fact it

will have the capability to return us to the Moon from the very first

launch will be an important point to promote its continued funding.



The key word there is "capability". *Unfortunately there's really no real

drive or mission beyond platitudes to do so.



So it's still a rocket to nowhere that can do something no one really wants

to be pay for (monetarily or polically).



Likely this first launch in 2017 will serve as an unmanned test

mission to show the cryogenic space stages can safely land and take

off from the lunar service with a human-qualified capsule. But

certainly by 2019 we will be able to do the crewed missions, on the

50th anniversary of Apollo 11.



Able to do in 7 years? *We're not even building any hardware to get there.

In 1962 we had firmer plans than now. *And we were in a rush then.



So it's still a rocket o nowhere.







* Bob Clark



--

Greg D. Moore * * * * * * * * *http://greenmountainsoftware.wordpress.com/

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yep rocket to no where, describes it perfectly.....



pork pig squeals with delight.

Typical Bobbert...