NASA admits shuttle, ISS were mistakes

[Bob Rice, KG4RRN]

It's time to build the small version of a starship..... in either earth or lunar orbit.
Ion pulse drive would be preferable, because it can be controlled.
They need to start building a simulator for a ship design.
Robotics can play a role in future space missions, but over-ride 
by humans would be neccesary and functional.
Let's move beyond, oh crap, there is no shuttle anymore. 
Private companies will be formed, taken over by others, and they
will still be discussing this, 20 years from now...
the question is: will there be ham radio use in space?
Bob Rice, KG4RRN
kg4rrn at arrl.net

President, Jefferson Co. WV.
Amateur Radio Club


--- On Wed, 7/13/11, John Teller <jsteller at spottydog.us> wrote:


From: John Teller <jsteller at spottydog.us>
Subject: Re: NASA admits shuttle, ISS were mistakes
To: tacos at amrad.org
Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 12:21 AM


That article is also 6 years old and was written under Griffin's 
tenure.  He was trying to move things away from big low-Earth projects 
into interplanetary missions (much as he did when he was running the 
Space Systems Group at Orbital).  Dissing ISS and the Shuttle were just 
part of the campaign.  Dawn was one of his pet projects, and made it 
through at least one outright cancellation.

---JST


On 07/12/2011 02:58 PM, Phil wrote:
> The media are so good at 20:20 hindsight. Why not celebrate its successes, than declare it a failure? I remember an article in 'New Scientist' damning the Apollo missions for the "lack of meaningful science". Of course, the assumption was that technology and engineering development have no intrinsic worth whatsoever.
>
> The Shuttle and ISS were not failures. Not having a replacement ready when the Shuttle was decommissioned was.
>
> Phil M1GWZ
>
>
>
>
> On 12 Jul 2011, at 04:35, Chip Fetrow wrote:
>
>> They missed the point that much of the Shuttle's design was done for the military, particularally the Air Force, who dropped out of the program once they were building the first Shuttles.  It would have been much smaller, and capible of going into higher orbits had the Air Force not been involved.
>>
>> http://m.techrepublic.com/blog/geekend/nasa-admits-shuttle-iss-were-mistakes/93
>>
>> --chip
>>  From the Kennedy Space Center Press Site
>> _______________________________________________
>> Tacos mailing list
>> Tacos at amrad.org
>> https://amrad.org/mailman/listinfo/tacos
> _______________________________________________
> Tacos mailing list
> Tacos at amrad.org
> https://amrad.org/mailman/listinfo/tacos
>

_______________________________________________
Tacos mailing list
Tacos at amrad.org
https://amrad.org/mailman/listinfo/tacos
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://amrad.org/pipermail/tacos/attachments/20110713/f4173910/attachment.html>