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From the AP, via Yahoo
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051103/ap_on_sc/nasa, this on Griffen's latest testimony: quote NASA's top priorities are a replacement for the space shuttle and completing the international space station, and some other programs are being cut or deferred to concentrate the agency's resources, NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin said Thursday. "NASA cannot afford to do everything on its plate today," he told the House Science Committee. Funding priorities required the agency to cancel several programs that "we either did not need or did not need right now," Griffin said. For example, it seemed like putting the cart before the horse to continue life science studies about how people respond to being in space before the agency was sure it could put people back in space, he said. /quote /dps |
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basically he is gutting everything in a attempt to afford a new launch
system. sad to say the new system might be safer, but given its shuttle roots would be low cost enough... nasa runs the risk of being irrevelant, private industry might make nasa look really lame |
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nasa runs the risk of being irrevelant, private industry might make
nasa look really lame Well, I hope private industry does. Because if so, more will be possible in space, more cheaply. Both for NASA and for everyone else. But I'm not sure how quickly that will be happening. The big aerospace companies aren't likely to try to push EELV together with something for rendezvous, on-orbit assembly, etc. And the entrepreneurs haven't gotten to orbit yet, much less solved all those problems. |
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"Jim Kingdon" wrote in message
news nasa runs the risk of being irrevelant, private industry might make nasa look really lame Well, I hope private industry does. Because if so, more will be possible in space, more cheaply. Both for NASA and for everyone else. But I'm not sure how quickly that will be happening. The big aerospace companies aren't likely to try to push EELV together with something for rendezvous, on-orbit assembly, etc. And the entrepreneurs haven't gotten to orbit yet, much less solved all those problems. I'm not sure about Boeing, but Lockheed Martin has indeed been looking at the continued "evolution" of the Atlas family of launch vehicles, including Saturn V class and beyond, as well as on-orbit transfer vehicles. |
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