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Bolden Defends New NASA Budget
Remarks by NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden, Jr. as taken from NASA's website: "At the highest level, the President and his staff as well as my NASA senior leadership team closely reviewed the Augustine Committee report, and they came to the same realization the Committee concluded: The Constellation program was on an unsustainable trajectory. If we continued on our current course, at best we would have ended up flying a handful of astronauts to the moon sometime after 2030. But to accomplish even that limited task, we would have had to make even deeper cuts to the other parts of NASA's budget, terminating support of the ISS early and decimating our science and aeronautics efforts. Further, we would have had no money to advance the state of the art in any of the technology areas that we need to enable us to do new things in space - no money to lower the cost of access to space, no money for closedloop life support, no money for advanced propulsion technology, no money for radiation protection. The President recognized that what was truly needed for beyond LEO exploration was game-changing technologies; making the fundamental investments that will provide the foundation for the next half-century of American leadership in space exploration. In doing so, the President put forward what I believe to be the most authentically visionary policy for real human space exploration that we have ever had." "Some have argued that the Constellation program was the symbol of American leadership in space. I think they have been misled. An unsustainable program, as described in the Augustine Committee Report, with no funding planned to support the ISS beyond 2015 and no definitive, funded plans for a heavy lift launch vehicle necessary for exploration beyond low Earth orbit can hardly be considered a symbol of American leadership in space. U.S permanent human presence in space and our international human spaceflight partnership would have ended or been totally dependent on the Russians for the foreseeable future. 'That is not American leadership in my book. Under the new plan, however, we will ensure continuous American presence in space throughout this entire decade, re-establish a robust and competitive American launch industry, start a major heavy lift R&D program years earlier, and build a real technological foundation for sustainable beyond-LEO exploration. That to me is real leadership, and our international partners already recognize it." http://www.spaceenergy.com/Announcem....aspx?ID=43043 |
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Bolden Defends New NASA Budget
On 4/22/2010 11:27 AM, Brian Gaff wrote:
We know all that, but the real problem was and still is, how much the leadership of your country wants to spend. If you really wanted it all, you could have it by throwing money and expertise at the problems. If you are limited in funds then the statement below is correct. Senator Shelby is out to kick Bolden's ass: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-va...ne-nasa-budget Giving God-Damn Moon to God-Damn Godless Chinese. "The senator later invoked the words of Albert Einstein, noting the White House's new vision for NASA embodies the scientist's definition of "insanity," which he said meant, "doing the same things over and over and expecting a different result." " You know, like going back to the Moon and seeing if any life has evolved there yet. Pat |
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Bolden Defends New NASA Budget
On Apr 22, 6:49�pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 4/22/2010 11:27 AM, Brian Gaff wrote: We know all that, but the real problem was and still is, how much the leadership of your country wants to spend. If you really wanted it all, you could have it by throwing money and expertise at the problems. If you are limited in funds then the statement below is correct. Senator Shelby is out to kick Bolden's ass:http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-va...51-shelby-whac... Giving God-Damn Moon to God-Damn Godless Chinese. "The senator later invoked the words of Albert Einstein, noting the White House's new vision for NASA embodies the scientist's definition of "insanity," which he said meant, "doing the same things over and over and expecting a different result." " You know, like going back to the Moon and seeing if any life has evolved there yet. Pat I wonder how the moons atmosphere has changed after all these years? DONT LAUGH it had a thin atmosphere of apollo lander engine exhaust. I wonder if any of it is still there? on a more serious note is there anywhere on the net info from the laser reflectors left as the last remaining experiments? I wonder about the data, have the recent volcanoes and earthquakes had ANY effect of the distance? |
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Bolden Defends New NASA Budget
On Apr 23, 8:46�pm, "Jonathan" wrote:
"bob haller safety advocate" wrote in ... On Apr 22, 6:49?pm, Pat Flannery wrote: You know, like going back to the Moon and seeing if any life has evolved there yet. Pat I wonder how the moons atmosphere has changed after all these years? DONT LAUGH it had a thin atmosphere of apollo lander engine exhaust. I wonder if any of it is still there? Or my favorite, looking for water on the Moon. (sarcasm alert) Hey, maybe then we should start looking for..ah..well damn, I can't think of an analogy as stupid as looking for water on the freaking Moon. Rocks from Jupiter maybe? Building castles in the middle of a swamp? s There MIGHT be water, in the bottoms of permanetely dark and frozen craters. |
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Bolden Defends New NASA Budget
"bob haller safety advocate" wrote in message ... There MIGHT be water, in the bottoms of permanently dark and frozen craters. I understand the reasoning, that finding even traces might help a colony be more affordable. But the data should be highly suspect as those experiments were clearly politically motivated in order to justify The Vision. Large scale mining operations on the Moon would be optimistically 50 years away. No one could possibly predict what the societal, political or technological issues would be t h a t f a r o u t. No politician could possibly make an expensive promise now that has any chance of being kept by every administration until then. Politicians rarely enough can keep their own promises. The idea didn't even pass a laugh test. Our very existence and future must clearly be at stake for such things to have a chance. ( please see below) Jonathan Space Energy Inc http://www.spaceenergy.com/s/Default.htm Space Energy Inc Technical Consultants http://www.spaceenergy.com/s/TechnicalAdvisors.htm Space Energy Inc Presentation http://www.spaceenergy.com/i/flash/ted_presentation Laying the Foundation for Space Solar Power http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10202&page=1 Space-Based Solar Power As an Opportunity for Strategic Security http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/library/nsso.htm War Without Oil: A Catalyst For True Transformation "Complicating the matter is a lack of professional consensus on the actual expected date of global peak oil production, with credible organizations such a ExxonMobil predicting that the non-OPEC Hubbert's Peak will arrive within 5 years and the U.S. Government claiming the planet's absolute peak will occur somewhere around 2037" http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cst/csat56.pdf s |
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Bolden Defends New NASA Budget
"bob haller safety advocate" wrote in message ... On Apr 22, 6:49?pm, Pat Flannery wrote: You know, like going back to the Moon and seeing if any life has evolved there yet. Pat I wonder how the moons atmosphere has changed after all these years? DONT LAUGH it had a thin atmosphere of apollo lander engine exhaust. I wonder if any of it is still there? Or my favorite, looking for water on the Moon. (sarcasm alert) Hey, maybe then we should start looking for..ah..well damn, I can't think of an analogy as stupid as looking for water on the freaking Moon. Rocks from Jupiter maybe? Building castles in the middle of a swamp? s |
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Bolden Defends New NASA Budget
Jonathan wrote:
would be t h a t f a r o u t. No politician could possibly make an expensive promise now that has any chance of being kept by every administration until then. Healthcare? Social Security has been kept for that long. Glen |
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