Enter the Dragon?

In all of the discussions about the schedule of Aries/Orion, retiring
the shuttle, and using the Soyuz for transportation to the ISS, why
does NASA ignore the work of SpaceX and their Dragon spacecraft? Seems
to me that after the Dragon proves itself in flight, it would be a
good option to lease flights to NASA

On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 12:24:05 -0700 (PDT), in a place far, far away,
" made the phosphor on
my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

In all of the discussions about the schedule of Aries/Orion, retiring
the shuttle, and using the Soyuz for transportation to the ISS, why
does NASA ignore the work of SpaceX and their Dragon spacecraft? Seems
to me that after the Dragon proves itself in flight, it would be a
good option to lease flights to NASA

That will be part of COTS.

On Nov 1, 3:59*pm, (Rand Simberg) wrote:
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 12:24:05 -0700 (PDT), in a place far, far away,
" made the phosphor on
my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

In all of the discussions about the schedule of Aries/Orion, retiring
the shuttle, and using the Soyuz for transportation to the ISS, why
does NASA ignore the work of SpaceX and their Dragon spacecraft? Seems
to me that after the Dragon proves itself in flight, it would be a
good option to lease flights to NASA

That will be part of COTS.

I know it is COTS. But why is there little discussion of using the
Dragon INSTEAD of the Soyuz for ISS transportation needs.

" wrote in news:0003682b-
:

On Nov 1, 3:59*pm, (Rand Simberg) wrote:
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 12:24:05 -0700 (PDT), in a place far, far away,
" made the phosphor on
my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

In all of the discussions about the schedule of Aries/Orion, retiring
the shuttle, and using the Soyuz for transportation to the ISS, why
does NASA ignore the work of SpaceX and their Dragon spacecraft? Seems
to me that after the Dragon proves itself in flight, it would be a
good option to lease flights to NASA

That will be part of COTS.

I know it is COTS. But why is there little discussion of using the
Dragon INSTEAD of the Soyuz for ISS transportation needs.


Soyuz is well-proven and off-the-shelf; Dragon has yet to be real
hardware, let alone flight proven. Give it time and we'll see how things
work out.

--Damon

On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 16:26:05 -0700 (PDT), in a place far, far away,
" made the phosphor on
my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

On Nov 1, 3:59*pm, (Rand Simberg) wrote:
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 12:24:05 -0700 (PDT), in a place far, far away,
" made the phosphor on
my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

In all of the discussions about the schedule of Aries/Orion, retiring
the shuttle, and using the Soyuz for transportation to the ISS, why
does NASA ignore the work of SpaceX and their Dragon spacecraft? Seems
to me that after the Dragon proves itself in flight, it would be a
good option to lease flights to NASA

That will be part of COTS.

I know it is COTS. But why is there little discussion of using the
Dragon INSTEAD of the Soyuz for ISS transportation needs.

There is quite a bit of discussion of it.

On Nov 1, 8:07*pm, (Rand Simberg) wrote:
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 16:26:05 -0700 (PDT), in a place far, far away,
" made the phosphor on
my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

On Nov 1, 3:59*pm, (Rand Simberg) wrote:
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 12:24:05 -0700 (PDT), in a place far, far away,
" made the phosphor on
my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

In all of the discussions about the schedule of Aries/Orion, retiring
the shuttle, and using the Soyuz for transportation to the ISS, why
does NASA ignore the work of SpaceX and their Dragon spacecraft? Seems
to me that after the Dragon proves itself in flight, it would be a
good option to lease flights to NASA

That will be part of COTS.

I know it is COTS. But why is there little discussion of using the
Dragon INSTEAD of the Soyuz for ISS transportation needs.

There is quite a bit of discussion of it.

Where is this discussion taking place? I guess it is off-topic here as
it is not history, but future projects

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 04:03:51 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
" made the phosphor on
my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

On Nov 1, 8:07*pm, (Rand Simberg) wrote:
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 16:26:05 -0700 (PDT), in a place far, far away,
" made the phosphor on
my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

On Nov 1, 3:59*pm, (Rand Simberg) wrote:
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 12:24:05 -0700 (PDT), in a place far, far away,
" made the phosphor on
my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

In all of the discussions about the schedule of Aries/Orion, retiring
the shuttle, and using the Soyuz for transportation to the ISS, why
does NASA ignore the work of SpaceX and their Dragon spacecraft? Seems
to me that after the Dragon proves itself in flight, it would be a
good option to lease flights to NASA

That will be part of COTS.

I know it is COTS. But why is there little discussion of using the
Dragon INSTEAD of the Soyuz for ISS transportation needs.

There is quite a bit of discussion of it.

Where is this discussion taking place? I guess it is off-topic here as
it is not history, but future projects

On the web, and in the halls of Congress.

On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 09:15:20 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
" made the phosphor on
my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

I know it is COTS. But why is there little discussion of using the
Dragon INSTEAD of the Soyuz for ISS transportation needs.

There is quite a bit of discussion of it.

Where is this discussion taking place? I guess it is off-topic here as
it is not history, but future projects

On the web, and in the halls of Congress.

Where is is in particular being discussed on the web? Please include a
URL (link)

http://www.google.com/search?q=COTS+D+Dragon+ISS+Soyuz

On Nov 8, 8:47*am, (Rand Simberg) wrote:
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 04:03:51 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
" made the phosphor on
my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:



On Nov 1, 8:07*pm, (Rand Simberg) wrote:
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 16:26:05 -0700 (PDT), in a place far, far away,
" made the phosphor on
my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

On Nov 1, 3:59*pm, (Rand Simberg) wrote:
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 12:24:05 -0700 (PDT), in a place far, far away,
" made the phosphor on
my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

In all of the discussions about the schedule of Aries/Orion, retiring
the shuttle, and using the Soyuz for transportation to the ISS, why
does NASA ignore the work of SpaceX and their Dragon spacecraft? Seems
to me that after the Dragon proves itself in flight, it would be a
good option to lease flights to NASA

That will be part of COTS.

I know it is COTS. But why is there little discussion of using the
Dragon INSTEAD of the Soyuz for ISS transportation needs.

There is quite a bit of discussion of it.

Where is this discussion taking place? I guess it is off-topic here as
it is not history, but future projects

On the web, and in the halls of Congress.

Where is is in particular being discussed on the web? Please include a
URL (link)