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...Nasrudin Hodja...
One awesome dude. I read some of those when I was a kid.
On another note<--- this is a little old, but maybe it can give some insight when budgeting discussions arise.
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...Nasrudin Hodja...
It's not an attitude so much as an observation. The space program in the US is centrally planned, my attitude has little to do with what happens.
Are they going to chancle Ares I only and keep the rest of constellation? Or are they going to chancle the whole Constellation for something completly new?
That is still to vague to say anything about it. Obama could as well meant "Kill NASA gently" with it. Also I don't know what he means with "Europe and Japan could build lunar modules". Does he think "Yes, we can" does miracles in spaceflight? We have just barely managed to get the ATV done here, despite all political forces to make life harder. And still have not even found the guts to make a fully manned spacecraft out of the ATV. And now we should build lunar module stuff? Maybe in 2025 at the current pace and funding. But not before 2018.
If we would start using taxes only for what really everybody wants...
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden will review the findings of his “special team” – which he set up to evaluate all Heavy Lift alternatives to the current plan – on Friday. Pre-empting the overview, Exploration Project officials all-but ruled out the Sidemount HLV, whilst noting a couple of In-line heavy lifters – one of which appears to be a DIRECT Jupiter launch vehicle – made it through to the Bolden meeting.
Seems thing are looking better than ever for DIRECT.As to which In-line vehicles were being referenced, the only concepts that have received positive attention are variants of vehicles that are not unlike the appearance of an Ares V, one of which is understood to be a Jupiter-241 Stretched Heavy.
Ah man, I liked the Sidemount. That was the cheapest of the cheap.