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Old May 24th 07, 11:32 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy,sci.space.station
George[_1_]
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Default ....Burt Rutan RIPS the "Vision" in recent speech... 05-06-07


"Jonathan" wrote in message
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On Wed, 23 May 2007 21:35:47 -0400, in a place far, far away,
"Jonathan" made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:


Aviation Visionary Burt Rutan on Inspiring Space Development
Sun, 05/06/2007 - 9:16am - LiftportEnergy


"I'd like to start off by saying...Houston we have a problem"

"We're entering a second generation of 'no progress' in terms
of manned space flight, in fact, we've regressed"

"We're going back to the moon...and very specifically planned
not to learn anything new. I'm really troubled by that"

....Burt Rutan

Video stream of his speech.


http://www.liftportenergy.com/?q=avi...an-inspiring-s

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So?

What's your point?


Well...eh hum...it would be that the "Vision" is a bad policy
and why.


What Burt said had nothing to do with the "Vision."


He said the Vision is a fifty year program that is specifically
designed to learn nothing new. That is a condemnation
of the overall goal or idea behind the Vision.
Not about the technology.

It was a
criticism of ESAS, which I share.



About ESAS, he's called it stupid, of making no sense
likened it to archeology.
http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra...an_060504.html

So yes, he also has bad things to say about the technology.
But I was referring to the goal.



So, again, what's your point?



Well....eh hum, that it's not only bad policy, but as you
just pointed out, ALSO bad technology.

Thanks!


"The budget forecast [for NASA] is to go out and spend hundreds of billions
of dollar to go to Mars and yet you don't have the courage to go back to
the Hubble ... it looks like you got the wrong guys doing it," Rutan
concluded.

Umm, since they've decided to go back to Hubble with the Shuttle, I fail to
see his point.

George