Citizens Against Government Waste has declared Senator Shelby “Porker of the Month” for his support of Constellation. These people need to be shamed.
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Citizens Against Government Waste has declared Senator Shelby “Porker of the Month” for his support of Constellation. These people need to be shamed.
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Yay! Soviet Shelby (Commie RINO, AL) recieves another ignoble award!
This will not affect Shelby one iota, even to the extent of making him feel shamed. It says more about CAGW’s opposition to any form of government funded space exploration than it does about Shelby’s rep as a porker.
All the plethora of largess to choose from and they had to pick this one.
I would think the Health Care debacle would have given them fodder for years to come.
Mr. Twittington,
CAGW is fully in support of competitive open bidding for government contracts, so long as there are no cost-plus clauses and no “too-big-to-fail” agreements (aka the ULA EELV contract).
Lets have a government that buys seats on commercial space vehicles just like they do coach seats on airliners, and cargo space on air cargo planes to ship cargo for major mobilizations. (and yes, even there, the government subsidizes the airline industry in exchange for their planes being put in the reserve fleet)…
Lets spend NASA money, other than the commercial seats to orbit, on building true interplanetary vessels in orbit, and focusing NASA funding on expanding permanent human infrastructure across the solar system.
> Mike Lorrey Says:
> CAGW is fully in support of competitive open bidding for
> government contracts, so long as there are no cost-plus
> clauses ====
Well that lets out any development contracts ever, unless the bidder niflates the bid like mad.
>== and no “too-big-to-fail” agreements (aka the ULA EELV contract).
Given they are critical launch services with no credable alternative, run at uneconomical rates, theres no real other way to run them,
>== Lets have a government that buys seats on commercial
> space vehicles just like they do coach seats on airliners,
> and cargo space on air cargo planes to ship cargo for major
> mobilizations.
That would be nice – when there are markets supporting commercial operators like that — when safe relyable commercial operators like that form. That when isn’t yet, or likely in the near future. About as near term as the ships in 2001: A Space Odessy.
Commercial crew would be little diffrent the ULA EELV etc. Its NASA contracting for a capsule to be developed to fit their needs (when they can agree what those are) purchased at rediculasly laughable numbers, making nothing like a commercial operation.
>= Lets spend NASA money, other than the commercial
> seats to orbit, on building true interplanetary vessels
> in orbit, and focusing NASA funding on expanding
> permanent human infrastructure across the solar system.
No chance of that. With NASA expenditures to commercial launch service providers droping by a factor of 10 or so, theres not really going to be anyone to buy them from. Also NASA has been direxcted to pure pork busy work like reresearching LOx/Kero engines and orbital refueling.
The motto for NASA new budget should be all the pork, none of the product — or nidustry to do them.