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On Apr 22, 4:35*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
You have been served, space station: I guess the general idea is that the U.S. either has to keep spending money on the Space Station, or they would have to hand it over to the Russians as a gift. I can see no other reason to waste money on it. John Savard |
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
dakotatelephone... You have been served, space station: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/a...-flight/39212/ Dear God, I read that as 'Story Musgrave *dies*.' -- Gordon Davie Edinburgh, Scotland "Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God." |
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GordonD wrote:
Dear God, I read that as 'Story Musgrave *dies*.' I have to say, so did I. |
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On 4/22/2010 9:04 PM, Neil Gerace wrote:
GordonD wrote: Dear God, I read that as 'Story Musgrave *dies*.' I have to say, so did I. You know, I sometimes screw up on spelling...I never screwed up _that_ badly on spelling. :-) Pat |
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message dakotatelephone... You have been served, space station: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/a...-flight/39212/ From above: "[The Space Station] does nothing for nobody and it never has," he says. "The cost of space station is 300 Voyager-class satellites. We could have had multiple Voyagers landed or floating in the atmosphere on every planet and on every moon of every planet. That is what we gave up when we went with a jobs program, which is what the space station is. And that's an ungodly sin. And yes, I'm a human space flight person, but listen to me. That's what we could have offered the public." What he says is sort of true, at least as far as "exploration" goes. While there is lots of experimentation on ISS, it's not exactly "exploring". And yes, it's cost so much money (especially if you include the costs of the shuttle program as used to support the ISS program), it's pretty much gobbled up most of the manned spaceflight budget for decades. I wouldn't mind seeing a suspension of the manned space program (outside of ISS and Orion-lite) for the next 5 years just so we can get our house in order. NASA currently spends far too much money on manned space programs and too little on research and true exploration. I'd like to see a LOX/kerosene engine developed in that timeframe so we can get rid of the large segmented solids once and for all. Any HLV built today would surely use large segmented solids and I've thought they were a bad idea all the way back to the Challenger disaster, and my opinion of them drops with every bit of new information I read about them. Jeff -- "Take heart amid the deepening gloom that your dog is finally getting enough cheese" - Deteriorata - National Lampoon |
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Jeff Findley wrote:
What he says is sort of true, at least as far as "exploration" goes. While there is lots of experimentation on ISS, it's not exactly "exploring". And yes, it's cost so much money (especially if you include the costs of the shuttle program as used to support the ISS program), it's pretty much gobbled up most of the manned spaceflight budget for decades. The first flaw in his argument is arguing for unmanned over manned. Human spaceflight is about humans flying, not about humans building robots to fly. I've observed that the humans-vs-robots argument is a fairly polarizing one: either you're for HSF or you're against it. I thought the real purpose of building a space station was to learn how to live and work in space. We do that in earth orbit so we can try many different things to see which one works best and, if the worst happens, be able to evacuate the station and come home. A space station could also be used to assemble the parts of the larger spacecraft that leaves earth orbit. This technique was advocated by some for the moon landing. Whether ISS is in an orbit that is useful for that is something I'll leave to those who understand orbits better than I do. I wouldn't mind seeing a suspension of the manned space program (outside of ISS and Orion-lite) for the next 5 years just so we can get our house in order. NASA currently spends far too much money on manned space programs You're willing to sacrifice human spaceflight for robotic spaceflight. You might want to check with the astronaut corps on that one Glen Overby |
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"Glen Overby" wrote in message ... Jeff Findley wrote: What he says is sort of true, at least as far as "exploration" goes. While there is lots of experimentation on ISS, it's not exactly "exploring". And yes, it's cost so much money (especially if you include the costs of the shuttle program as used to support the ISS program), it's pretty much gobbled up most of the manned spaceflight budget for decades. The first flaw in his argument is arguing for unmanned over manned. Human spaceflight is about humans flying, not about humans building robots to fly. I've observed that the humans-vs-robots argument is a fairly polarizing one: either you're for HSF or you're against it. I thought the real purpose of building a space station was to learn how to live and work in space. We do that in earth orbit so we can try many different things to see which one works best and, if the worst happens, be able to evacuate the station and come home. True, but in practice, Mir has shown that the astronauts, and the engieners on the ground, are very reluctant to evacuate a space station even in the face of life threatening situations like fire and decompression. One of the main reasons for this is that they're designed to be operated and maintained by astronauts on the spot. Without continuous manned operations and maintenance, there is the very real possibility that something critical will break that can't be fixed from the ground. A space station could also be used to assemble the parts of the larger spacecraft that leaves earth orbit. This technique was advocated by some for the moon landing. Whether ISS is in an orbit that is useful for that is something I'll leave to those who understand orbits better than I do. It could, but considering its high inclination orbit, it's not in an ideal location for such a task. The high inclination causes a payload penalty for anything launched from a lower lattitude, like KSC. Also, tt could be done, but it would likely wreck the zero gravity environemnt inside its labs, which might not make the international partners very happy since they've spent quite a bit of their own money to build and fly their attached labs. I wouldn't mind seeing a suspension of the manned space program (outside of ISS and Orion-lite) for the next 5 years just so we can get our house in order. NASA currently spends far too much money on manned space programs You're willing to sacrifice human spaceflight for robotic spaceflight. You might want to check with the astronaut corps on that one For the next five years. We have far too many astronauts as it is. A five year pause in flights (except for ISS, which will provide precious few flights without the shuttle) will only weed out the surplus that won't be needed in the future. Jeff -- "Take heart amid the deepening gloom that your dog is finally getting enough cheese" - Deteriorata - National Lampoon |
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You're willing to sacrifice human spaceflight for robotic spaceflight. �You might want to check with the astronaut corps on that one Glen Overby There wouldnt be many astronauts left to comment....... since most will have moved on to other jobs.... |
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Jonathan wrote:
what is the hope, of life here on Earth? Hubble is symbolic for a knowledge machine that is potentially able to link cosmology, theology, philosophy and astronomy. It is able to hold a mirror to humanity -- the kind of mirror that says 'What kind of universe is it, and what is our place in it? Who are we, and who should we be?'" Or indeed, 'Is it just me, or is that a little fuzzy? Do I need a new pair of spectacles?'. |
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