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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I doubt the biggest problem will ever be addressed: The overall stagnation of the space business, especially the launcher industry. Forty years on, they are still doing things the same way with the same mentality.

They are mired in a static, bureaucratic mindset that simply can't imagine anything outside of their own little fiefdom.

If NASA is to be saved, solutions will have to come from outside of NASA and the government contractor community.

3 posted on 05/05/2004 4:41:04 AM PDT by hopespringseternal (People should be banned for sophistry.)
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To: hopespringseternal
The Presidential Space Commission's report comes out June 2

Moon, Mars and Beyond

4 posted on 05/05/2004 4:47:01 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: hopespringseternal
hopespringeternal: "The overall stagnation of the space business, especially the launcher industry"

I agree. I was thinking about the next space plan, and its going to take a lot more total power than one Saturn V per mission.

We've either got to revolutionize the way we make rockets, or we need something completely new. I'm thinking the general public won't let us launch rockets until theres a crater at cape canaveral, so it may take a space elevator to get things really going.
9 posted on 05/05/2004 6:27:17 PM PDT by unibrowshift9b20
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