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Well, they must be doing something right...
NASA needs (or at least wants) to keep its training facilities, which were enough for several shuttle crews per year and now only need to part-train a few Soyuz passengers annually (both in addition to nearly half of ISS crews), in the hope of regaining, eventually, a USG/NASA manned launch capability. *They should be happy to hire them out for whatever money they can get - it will be a buyer's market. AIUI, the Pool is already hired out for non-space work. whats the pool being used for? |
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In sci.space.policy message MeOdnaDRkLNdwq_SnZ2dnUVZ_qWdnZ2d@earthlink.
com, Wed, 8 Feb 2012 06:42:55, "Greg (Strider) Moore" mooregr@ignoreth isgreenms.com posted: Sure. Remind me who Space X has launched into space again? Using a currently-available system, SpaceX has launched and safely recovered a cheese-rated orbital vehicle. A suited man, with couch, would have enjoyed the ride. The USAF has launched two X-37 and safely recovered one (the second seems to like it up there); I believe a suited man could have ridden in the payload bay instead of what was there and been recovered after maybe 2 orbits. But what can NASA do with its currently-available systems? Redstone, Atlas, Titan, Saturn, Shuttle are history - only the Shuttle can fly again, and for that it now needs a 747. SpaceX is not now as good as, in the past, NASA was (though it is cheaper); but NASA now is not as effective, by a greater margin, than NASA used to be. Rhetorical Queries - how many NASA staff, of what pay grades, with what overheads, etc., does NASA have working on financing Commercial Crew, and for how long will that have eventually run? And how much will dealing with them cost the companies in salaries, overheads, etc.? In each case, include lawyers and their costs. Non-rhetorical question - how do those costs compare with the sums to be disbursed? -- (c) John Stockton, nr London, UK. Turnpike v6.05 MIME. Web http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/ - FAQqish topics, acronyms and links; Astro stuff via astron-1.htm, gravity0.htm ; quotings.htm, pascal.htm, etc. No Encoding. Quotes before replies. Snip well. Write clearly. Don't Mail News. |
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On 2012-02-07 04:25:30 +0000, David Spain said:
As a private venture, it seems perfectly natural it might seek out NASA's help to help train its work crews. Or to ask to use of the big water tank for training its future space worker crews. And it seems only natural that NASA would be willing to help, for a fee. No, what NASA is renting out the "big water tank" for is training oil rig crews who have to take survival training. Yes, NASA and it's contractor are getting a fee but it ain't for space, at least today. |
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Robert Love wrote:
On 2012-02-07 04:25:30 +0000, David Spain said: As a private venture, it seems perfectly natural it might seek out NASA's help to help train its work crews. Or to ask to use of the big water tank for training its future space worker crews. And it seems only natural that NASA would be willing to help, for a fee. No, what NASA is renting out the "big water tank" for is training oil rig crews who have to take survival training. Yes, NASA and it's contractor are getting a fee but it ain't for space, at least today. IMO No - Not Yet. We can always hope that will change. But it also seems only natural that oil or natural gas riggers would hire NASA to help with their underwater work as well. I have no problem with this. I think it is a "good thing". Dave |
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On Feb 10, 11:40*am, David Spain wrote:
Robert Love wrote: On 2012-02-07 04:25:30 +0000, David Spain said: As a private venture, it seems perfectly natural it might seek out NASA's help to help train its work crews. Or to ask to use of the big water tank for training its future space worker crews. And it seems only natural that NASA would be willing to help, for a fee. No, what NASA is renting out the "big water tank" for is training oil rig crews who have to take survival training. *Yes, NASA and it's contractor are getting a fee but it ain't for space, at least today. IMO No - Not Yet. We can always hope that will change. But it also seems only natural that oil or natural gas riggers would hire NASA to help with their underwater work as well. I have no problem with this. I think it is a "good thing". Dave nasa could likely rent out tank as part of be a astronaut, giving the general public a chance to go in the tank that trained the apollo astronauts. that might be a money maker |
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On Feb 10, 2:43*pm, Fred J. McCall wrote:
bob haller wrote: On Feb 10, 11:40*am, David Spain wrote: Robert Love wrote: On 2012-02-07 04:25:30 +0000, David Spain said: As a private venture, it seems perfectly natural it might seek out NASA's help to help train its work crews. Or to ask to use of the big water tank for training its future space worker crews. And it seems only natural that NASA would be willing to help, for a fee. No, what NASA is renting out the "big water tank" for is training oil rig crews who have to take survival training. *Yes, NASA and it's contractor are getting a fee but it ain't for space, at least today. IMO No - Not Yet. We can always hope that will change. But it also seems only natural that oil or natural gas riggers would hire NASA to help with their underwater work as well. I have no problem with this. I think it is a "good thing". Dave nasa could likely rent out tank as part of be a astronaut, giving the general public a chance to go in the tank that trained the apollo astronauts. that might be a money maker Because introspective navel gazing is EVER so much more important to Bobbert than actually doing things. -- "Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar *territory." * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * --G. Behn- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - nope theres big bucks in tourism..... just look at disney since fred is locked in a institution he fails to realize our economy is about 1/3rd tourism...... |
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