We’re returning human spaceflight launches to America.

NASA via Twitter Account ^ | 09/16/14

[Enlightened1]

We’re returning human spaceflight launches to America. Learn who will take crews to the #ISS. Watch NASA TV at 4pm ET http://youtu.be/ceQycm1uCFI

[gura]

Here's Boeing's winning offering for our new tanker:

[messierhunter]

Not true actually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7fq10epvXs

[PIF]

Yep, his head is so far under the sand that not even a large earth mover could extricate his head. Or maybe it is just too small to contain the information ...

[PIF]

Of course, this is all just public show and tell. Lockheed Skunk Works has already been there and done that. And maybe still doing that and more.

Speculation that the “USAF’s little space plane” is a pick up and delivery service for the nonpublic things that are happening ...

[PIF]

Then again, putting all one’s eggs in one basket is a poor bet if that basket fails ... sometimes it is better to pay a bit more to achieve a very difficult task. Personally, I’d go with all four, just to learn which one actually does the best job and screw the cost.

Higher taxes are not the fault of the cost of utilizing one or more designs, but of retarded US tax policies playing the zero sum game.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"It was the unsafe design"

Like the environmentally friendly insulation glue that didn't hold, and let frozen chunks of ice strike the shuttle bottom throughout the launch.

[WhiskeyX]

“Big deal. No one cares about space anymore”

Wrong! Speak for yourself, because there are tens of millions of us who care very much about space exploration. Just because you want to stick your head in the sand like some kind of ostrich doesn’t mean everyone else thinks like you do.

[WhiskeyX]

We can build reusable spacecraft that do not require cost prohibitive refurbishment between missions.

[WhiskeyX]

“1) You (i.e. the list) assume these items could only have been invented exclusively by NASA. 2) There isn’t a single item on that list that has any significance whatsoever.”

One of the technologies which was invented to fix the optical problems with the Hubble Space Telescope was applied to develop optical equipment for restoring damaged eyesight, and it was this equipment which was used to repair the damage to my eyes that caused me to become legally blind for awhile last year. This application is just one of a multitude I know of which improve our daily lives.

[WhiskeyX]

Obama and the Democrats will always take credit for anything they can grab, especially when they broke it to begin with. That fact does nothing whatsoever to change the importance of a permanent space exploration and space development activity by government, business, and society.

[WhiskeyX]

Whomever controls the High Ground controls the Earth. Anyone who develops the capability of controlling the Solar orbit of a substantial sized asteroid also develops the capability to destroy all human civilization on the Earth by causing the asteroid to collide with the Earth.

[DaxtonBrown]

“We’re returning human spaceflight launches to America.”

Now if we were just launching them in spacecraft I’d feel optimistic.

[messierhunter]

I was being slightly facetious, but yes, it is good to diversify risk. It’s one reason I was against cancelling the Ares I and back then I didn’t even foresee one of the greatest risks of all; leaving ourselves dependent on the Russians for space station access for this long. Ares I would already be flying right now if we had stuck to the original plan. Instead we remain dependent on the Russians for spaceflights and we’ll continue to be dependent on them for a few more years to come. Given the current tensions I would be glad to have seen the extra money spent on Ares I just to take that card away from the Russians a few years earlier.