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Past Perfect, Future Misleading
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| August 28, 2003
| Rand Simberg
Posted on 08/28/2003 4:35:09 PM PDT by NonZeroSum
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:37:04 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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The Columbia Accident Investigation Board report was released on Tuesday.
I haven't read it in its entirety, but I've skimmed the whole thing.
The Gehman Commission is to be commended. They've pulled few punches and provided a lot of useful guidance to NASA to get the shuttle flying again -- if not completely safely, at least much more so. I also recommend reading the sections on history and space policy to anyone interested in those subjects. They provide very good insight into how we got into the mess we're in, which is to say that they've dealt very well with describing the past.
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Time to end this nonsense about NASA running spacelines.
To: Brett66; RightWhale; anymouse; RadioAstronomer; jimkress; discostu; The_Victor
Another space ping...
To: NonZeroSum
Is it possible for the United States to "retain a continuing capability to send people into space" without NASA being in charge of that? YES,YES,YES!
We are in the middle of fundamental and historical shift away from government programs providing access to space to private enterprise providing real solutions to this. I wish more people understood what's happening at this point in history, but that's ok, it's going to steamroll into peoples consciousness soon enough.
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posted on
08/28/2003 4:47:00 PM PDT
by
Brett66
To: NonZeroSum
The US Air Force will one day assume the responsibility of defending and militarily dominating the ionosphere and the exosphere. let the Air Force take space exploration over. They deal with aerodynamics for a living and are not shilling for environmental extremists.
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posted on
08/28/2003 4:53:21 PM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Nothing Is More Vile Than A Blowhard With Halitosis! - redruM)
To: NonZeroSum
End the policy BS and years of wasting taxpayer's money. Get the government out of the (non-defense) space business. Abolish NASA. Sell its assets to private companies for their use in commercial local and interplanetary development.
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posted on
08/28/2003 6:24:41 PM PDT
by
jimkress
(Go away Pat Go away!)
To: *Space
Space policy ping
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posted on
08/28/2003 10:38:04 PM PDT
by
anymouse
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