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Greetings !
What do you think of the Orbital Space Plane program ?
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=870
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rlv-03a.html
I realize the articles already express opinions on
the subject so you can search other sources for more
info of course. But, they were the quickest for me to find
and I have to say I agree with the spaceref article and all the reasons. I mean, investing billions of dollars that are so
much for current NASA budgets just to build something
that can already be done and is done by the Soyuz spacecraft
sounds totally crazy to me. Or at least, if they still wan'na
build something like that they could just take some older
plans replace everything with new technology and spare
lots of money and time on designing and testing it - in
the spirit of Goldin's old approach. It seems right now
that at a time when NASA has to start doing its best and
be at its most efficient by getting us back in space
with more massive research using the ISS and a boost
to its capabilities, new ambitious interplanetary probes
a start of the initial preparations for the manned Mars
mission and a new down-to-Earth program for the next gen.
space shuttle, instead it's policies are causing us to
sink even deeper into the dirt (pun certainly intended).
The SS economical failure, the X-33 program failure,
the X-34 that was supposed to do the same thing as this
"plane", and they couldn't even build the ISS as it
was supposed to be. Don't get me wrong but in my opinion
these guys are really astronauts... in the sometimes negative
meaning of the word.
Live long and prosper.
What do you think of the Orbital Space Plane program ?
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=870
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rlv-03a.html
I realize the articles already express opinions on
the subject so you can search other sources for more
info of course. But, they were the quickest for me to find
and I have to say I agree with the spaceref article and all the reasons. I mean, investing billions of dollars that are so
much for current NASA budgets just to build something
that can already be done and is done by the Soyuz spacecraft
sounds totally crazy to me. Or at least, if they still wan'na
build something like that they could just take some older
plans replace everything with new technology and spare
lots of money and time on designing and testing it - in
the spirit of Goldin's old approach. It seems right now
that at a time when NASA has to start doing its best and
be at its most efficient by getting us back in space
with more massive research using the ISS and a boost
to its capabilities, new ambitious interplanetary probes
a start of the initial preparations for the manned Mars
mission and a new down-to-Earth program for the next gen.
space shuttle, instead it's policies are causing us to
sink even deeper into the dirt (pun certainly intended).
The SS economical failure, the X-33 program failure,
the X-34 that was supposed to do the same thing as this
"plane", and they couldn't even build the ISS as it
was supposed to be. Don't get me wrong but in my opinion
these guys are really astronauts... in the sometimes negative
meaning of the word.
Live long and prosper.
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