[FPSPACE] A very interesting story!

[Charles Vick]

What we need is a robust proven liquid propellant booster that can be put
into production now with new updated flight avionics. No or very little new
R&D and concentrate on the rebuild of the launch test infrastructure we are
going to have to do anyway and the new robust safer than now Orion
spacecraft. Any other R & D effort is extra as we are in a geopolitical
Science and Technology Industrial base game for keeps and we are loosing
fast. I reject everything offered so far for serious inadequacy or serious
safety issues and the required new R & D. Oh just how long did it take NASA
to test fire the J-2 once the order was given to do so and how about the F-1
that Astronaut Thomas Stafford strongly suggested that we put back in
production. Truly amazing and if we do not do it ... 

 

 

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090102/pl_bloomberg/aovrno0oj41g

 

It appears that the Obama Administration might want to return astronauts to
the Moon much sooner than the Chinese.

Obama Moves to Counter China With Pentagon-NASA Link

Demian McLean Demian Mclean Fri Jan 2, 3:58 pm ET 

 

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