"Herb Schaltegger" wrote in
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From testimony at Griffin's confirmation hearing:

"With regard to the Crew Exploration Vehicle, Griffin noted that in the
1960s the Gemini program took only three years and the development of
the Apollo capsule only about 6 years from award to fruition. He said
2014 is too far out for flying for the first time a vehicle he compared
to the Apollo capsule.

³'President Bush said no later than 2014. He didn¹to say we couldn¹to be
smart and do it early,' Griffin told members of the Commerce Committee.
'That would be my goal. It is unacceptable to me that it should take
from 2005 to 2014 to do the same thing² the country did during the
1960s.'"

http://space.com/news/griffin_hearing_050412.html


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But, then there was a kind of goal that was very well defined, i.e., land on
the moon and come back in the decade.

This time, surely, the emulation of what was done then is not the goal. If
the goal is longer stays and a versatile vehicle for shall we say, other
uses, then someone has got to define whether its one vehicle, several, or
whatever.

For what reason do you want to stay on the moon? Last time it seemed, that
at every place they went it was much the same. They surely need to visit the
poles and the other side.

If those are all the same as well, why do you want to be there?

I'd be much more interested in what will be done to protect people out there
from radiation. It seems this is the one thing that could scupper the whole
'human' side to exploration.

Brian

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