"Eric Chomko" wrote in message
...
Lord Vain ) wrote:

: "Craig Fink" wrote in message
: news :
: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12319764/
: quote
: NASA keeps mum on space robot's failure
: DART report considered too sensitive for public release
: ...
: The space agency distributed a new public information policy last
month
: specifying that information protected by ITAR is considered "sensitive
but
: unclassified" and that unauthorized release to news organizations
could
: result in prosecution or disciplinary action.
: end quote
:
: It appears there is more to the story than what is presented in Mr.
: Oberg's story. A quick look at the NASA web site shows:

: Why does NASA have to be involved in a demonstrator which is obviously a
: cover-up for a military program?

Because the DOD has 26 times the budget of NASA. Think about that. In two
weeks the DOD spends what NASA does in a whole year.


The DOD has 30+ times the number of salaried workers that NASA has so that's
not really an eye opener. But that doesn't mean that they always have the
latest and the greatest technology or even the best and the brightest
scientists and engineers. Aside from that: science can't be pushed, it has
to be nurtured, and it's therefore plausible that the DOD wanted this
technology as far back as the '60's but was unable to develop the
technology. Today, NASA has a real interest in automated docking/rendezvouz
technology for the 'new' moon program and they're therefore developing it,
but the DOD also wants to use it (may even be funding a large part of it)
for their hunter-killer satellites but they insist on secrecy. It's pretty
obvious that the revealing of the failure could give third parties a good
insight how NASA/DOD is tackling the automated docking/rendevouz problem.

BTW: don't the Russians already have a good automated rendezvouz/docking
system used in Soyuz and Progress?





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