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Old February 13th 11, 04:16 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Nomen Nescio
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Default The Liberty rocket is no joke...

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1102/08liberty/

It's a last-ditch effort by incumbents to remain viable after being
undercut by SpaceX's Falcon 9 / Dragon. They'll use their political
connections, just like they did with Ares V-Lite, by bribing lawmakers
into drawing up legislation which virtually names their company and
product in the law, leaving NASA no room to use the cheaper SpaceX
alternatives or rockets from any other manufacturer for that matter.

Obviously this Liberty rocket (purposefully named such as to instill
patriotic emotions) would be another mulch-billion turkey, but no one
in Washington cares. The corrupt lawmakers need the money to fund their
campaigns. It's just pathetic what the U.S. has turned into.


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Old February 13th 11, 06:30 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Brad Guth[_3_]
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Default The Liberty rocket is no joke...

On Feb 13, 7:16*am, Nomen Nescio wrote:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1102/08liberty/

It's a last-ditch effort by incumbents to remain viable after being
undercut by SpaceX's Falcon 9 / Dragon. They'll use their political
connections, just like they did with Ares V-Lite, by bribing lawmakers
into drawing up legislation which virtually names their company and
product in the law, leaving NASA no room to use the cheaper SpaceX
alternatives or rockets from any other manufacturer for that matter.

Obviously this Liberty rocket (purposefully named such as to instill
patriotic emotions) would be another mulch-billion turkey, but no one
in Washington cares. The corrupt lawmakers need the money to fund their
campaigns. It's just pathetic what the U.S. has turned into.


You wouldn't want to ever revise the record of history, much less
prevent the next generation from making the same old mistakes, because
that would be Un-American.

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Old February 14th 11, 12:44 AM posted to sci.space.policy
David Spain
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Default The Liberty rocket is no joke...

Nomen Nescio wrote:
Obviously this Liberty rocket (purposefully named such as to instill
patriotic emotions) would be another mulch-billion turkey,


When it comes to patriotic emoting; I think of it more as the Liberator
Rocket! i.e. designed solely to liberate tax dollars from my wallet!

Dave


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Old February 14th 11, 05:26 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Jeff Findley
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Default The Liberty rocket is no joke...

In article ,
says...

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1102/08liberty/

It's a last-ditch effort by incumbents to remain viable after being
undercut by SpaceX's Falcon 9 / Dragon. They'll use their political
connections, just like they did with Ares V-Lite, by bribing lawmakers
into drawing up legislation which virtually names their company and
product in the law, leaving NASA no room to use the cheaper SpaceX
alternatives or rockets from any other manufacturer for that matter.

Obviously this Liberty rocket (purposefully named such as to instill
patriotic emotions) would be another mulch-billion turkey, but no one
in Washington cares. The corrupt lawmakers need the money to fund their
campaigns. It's just pathetic what the U.S. has turned into.


Yea, I love the name. I'm sure that their marketing guys were keenly
aware that using an ESA produced upper stage would cause a political
stink, so they're trying to mask that stink with an air freshener (the
Liberty name). Too bad it won't work. It'll still stink to high
heaven.

Since this latest proposal does a complete end-run-around US producers
of liquid fueled upper stages and liquid fueled rocket engines, I don't
expect them to stay silent. They would be the big losers if Liberty
sees the light of day. I'd expect their lobbyists will have a few
choice words for the same Congressmen and Senators that ATK's lobbyists
will be visiting.

Jeff
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