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NASA's way forward for manned space...
Interesting article on SpaceRef about a recent report:
National Disagreement Over NASA's Goals and Objectives Detrimental to Agency Planning, Budgeting Efforts Source: National Research Council Posted Wednesday, December 5, 2012 http://spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=39418 It seems the long and the short of it is that NASA really doesn't know what it's going to do with SLS/Orion. Couple that with uncertainty about its budget and you end up with what amounts to a dysfunctional mess of a program (my words) that has a mis-match between what it thinks it might want to do and the funds to do it. The article mentions four possible ways forward: * Institute an aggressive restructuring program to reduce infrastructure and personnel costs and improve efficiency; * Engage in and commit for the long term to more cost-sharing partnerships with other U.S. government agencies, private sector industries, and international partners; * Increase the size of the NASA budget; * Reduce considerably the size and scope of elements of NASA's current program portfolio to better fit the current and anticipated budget profile. I'm guessing the "way forward" will be a combination of restructuring coupled with "cost-sharing" with other nations (ala ISS). Why? NASA has no chance of getting a significantly larger budget (history plus the current budget situation support this). Plus I doubt that NASA will have the will to "reduce considerably the size and scope of elements of NASA's current program...". Jeff -- "the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer |
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NASA's way forward for manned space...
On Dec 5, 3:05*pm, Jeff Findley wrote:
Interesting article on SpaceRef about a recent report: * * National Disagreement Over NASA's Goals and Objectives * * Detrimental to Agency Planning, Budgeting Efforts * * Source: National Research Council * * Posted Wednesday, December 5, 2012 * *http://spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=39418 It seems the long and the short of it is that NASA really doesn't know what it's going to do with SLS/Orion. *Couple that with uncertainty about its budget and you end up with what amounts to a dysfunctional mess of a program (my words) that has a mis-match between what it thinks it might want to do and the funds to do it. The article mentions four possible ways forward: * ** Institute an aggressive restructuring program to * * *reduce infrastructure and personnel costs and improve * * *efficiency; * ** Engage in and commit for the long term to more * * *cost-sharing partnerships with other U.S. government * * *agencies, private sector industries, and international * * *partners; * ** Increase the size of the NASA budget; * ** Reduce considerably the size and scope of elements * * *of NASA's current program portfolio to better fit * * *the current and anticipated budget profile. I'm guessing the "way forward" will be a combination of restructuring coupled with "cost-sharing" with other nations (ala ISS). *Why? *NASA has no chance of getting a significantly larger budget (history plus the current budget situation support this). *Plus I doubt that NASA will have the will to "reduce considerably the size and scope of elements of NASA's current program...". Jeff -- SLS should die! Its a unnecessary waste of money. Theres no bucks for human asteroid or mars.... and partnering with other countries can drive up costs, and may see you partnered with another country that does something you really dont like..... better to put the human bucks in private efforts and beef up the robotic program. many may not like this but its probaby the only affordable plan........ |
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NASA's way forward for manned space...
On Dec 5, 11:56*pm, Fred J. McCall wrote:
bob haller wrote: SLS should die! Its a unnecessary waste of money. Bobbert should die! *He's an unnecessary waste of money. *Also of a lot of perfectly good skin. -- You are What you do When it counts. mentally fred died years ago, after he gave himself a lobotomy...... |
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NASA's way forward for manned space...
On 12/5/2012 3:05 PM, Jeff Findley wrote:
* Engage in and commit for the long term to more cost-sharing partnerships with other U.S. government agencies, private sector industries, and international partners; Does that mean selling SLS/Orion stacks to the Chinese government as part of their manned moon program? Hey "Made In America!" at least... *snicker* Dave |
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