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Is Bush waiting for X-Prize before deciding NASA's future?
But will his decision matter if all America's high-tech jobs get
exported to India? Maybe that's the best solution: have NASA step aside so that private industry in India can do the job right. |
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Is Bush waiting for X-Prize before deciding NASA's future?
Bar Code wrote:
But will his decision matter if all America's high-tech jobs get exported to India? Maybe that's the best solution: have NASA step aside so that private industry in India can do the job right. Hell, I doubt Bush has even *heard* of the X-Prize.... |
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Is Bush waiting for X-Prize before deciding NASA's future?
"Joann Evans" wrote in message
... Bar Code wrote: But will his decision matter if all America's high-tech jobs get exported to India? Maybe that's the best solution: have NASA step aside so that private industry in India can do the job right. Hell, I doubt Bush has even *heard* of the X-Prize.... I doubt he could spell it! -- Alan Erskine alanerskine(at)optusnet.com.au "This is a time to try men of force and vision, and not be confined exclusively to those who are judged thoroughly safe by conventional standards." Winston Churchill, October 19, 1940 |
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Is Bush waiting for X-Prize before deciding NASA's future?
"Alan Erskine" wrote in message ... "Joann Evans" wrote in message ... Bar Code wrote: But will his decision matter if all America's high-tech jobs get exported to India? Maybe that's the best solution: have NASA step aside so that private industry in India can do the job right. Hell, I doubt Bush has even *heard* of the X-Prize.... I doubt he could spell it! Let's start a wager! |
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Is Bush waiting for X-Prize before deciding NASA's future?
Centurion509 wrote:
He may not have, but some White House staffers have. Check out http://www.ostp.gov/html/AIAA%20Air%...2007-17-03.pdf. And in a few months, I suspect Bush himself will have. The Columbia hearings and Shenzhou 5 should direct at least a tiny bit of media attention toward the future of human spaceflight, setting the stage for the X-Prize. I doubt Bush is "waiting" for the X-Prize, but it will hopefully influence the NASA FY05 budget. I agree that *successful* X-Prize flights may not help, but could not hurt. And that the president may even go as far as to issue some brief written statement of congratualtions to the winner. (I expect to hear nothing either way, from any NASA offical.) How seriously he takes it (Because the importance isn't so much in the accomplishment, as in its implications. The administration may only see it as having no more relevance to larger space issues, surpassing Mach 1 by a land vehicle, a while back, did on automotive technology...which would be missing the point.), will be interesting to see.... |
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Is Bush waiting for X-Prize before deciding NASA's future?
"Bar Code" wrote in message ... But will his decision matter if all America's high-tech jobs get exported to India? Maybe that's the best solution: have NASA step aside so that private industry in India can do the job right. I doubt it. Although a successfull flight to suborbital space with a budget less than $10million may lead to difficult questions from Congress. |
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Is Bush waiting for X-Prize before deciding NASA's future?
Centurion509 wrote:
NASA officials _already_ have been involved. Goldin spoke at the kickoff. I'll take your word for that. But I still want to see what, if any *post* successful flight offical comments there will be. It's easy to give pats on the back to someone you might not take seriously, early in the game.... |
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Is Bush waiting for X-Prize before deciding NASA's future?
Ultimate Buu wrote:
"Bar Code" wrote in message ... But will his decision matter if all America's high-tech jobs get exported to India? Maybe that's the best solution: have NASA step aside so that private industry in India can do the job right. I doubt it. Although a successfull flight to suborbital space with a budget less than $10million may lead to difficult questions from Congress. Indeed, we can only hope so..... |
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Is Bush waiting for X-Prize before deciding NASA's future?
Joann Evans wrote: Ultimate Buu wrote: "Bar Code" wrote in message ... But will his decision matter if all America's high-tech jobs get exported to India? Maybe that's the best solution: have NASA step aside so that private industry in India can do the job right. I doubt it. Although a successfull flight to suborbital space with a budget less than $10million may lead to difficult questions from Congress. Indeed, we can only hope so..... It should also lead to difficult questions _to_ Congress. Doesn't abundant pork make proposals more viable on capital hill? Hop http://clowder.net/hop/index.html |
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Is Bush waiting for X-Prize before deciding NASA's future?
I was thinking more like it would be easier to dump the problem by pointing to
a private industry success story, and then cancelling the whole lot (NASA manned flight) and saying that the American way to do things is to let private industry pick it up (if it is worth doing). A position like that would look bold and innovative, it would receive TONS of praise from certain people who are calling for it already. An X-Prize success would give the Administration the cover it would need to NOT make such a move look like abandonment. Even if it would take years for Rutan, Bezos and Carmak to make it to orbit, that would be ok, because that would stretch the development phase out past the end of the second term. Joann Evans wrote: Centurion509 wrote: NASA officials _already_ have been involved. Goldin spoke at the kickoff. I'll take your word for that. But I still want to see what, if any *post* successful flight offical comments there will be. It's easy to give pats on the back to someone you might not take seriously, early in the game.... |
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