Transterrestrial Musings  


Amazon Honor System Click Here to Pay

Space
Alan Boyle (MSNBC)
Space Politics (Jeff Foust)
Space Transport News (Clark Lindsey)
NASA Watch
NASA Space Flight
Hobby Space
A Voyage To Arcturus (Jay Manifold)
Dispatches From The Final Frontier (Michael Belfiore)
Personal Spaceflight (Jeff Foust)
Mars Blog
The Flame Trench (Florida Today)
Space Cynic
Rocket Forge (Michael Mealing)
COTS Watch (Michael Mealing)
Curmudgeon's Corner (Mark Whittington)
Selenian Boondocks
Tales of the Heliosphere
Out Of The Cradle
Space For Commerce (Brian Dunbar)
True Anomaly
Kevin Parkin
The Speculist (Phil Bowermaster)
Spacecraft (Chris Hall)
Space Pragmatism (Dan Schrimpsher)
Eternal Golden Braid (Fred Kiesche)
Carried Away (Dan Schmelzer)
Laughing Wolf (C. Blake Powers)
Chair Force Engineer (Air Force Procurement)
Spacearium
Saturn Follies
JesusPhreaks (Scott Bell)
Journoblogs
The Ombudsgod
Cut On The Bias (Susanna Cornett)
Joanne Jacobs


Site designed by


Powered by
Movable Type
Biting Commentary about Infinity, and Beyond!

« The Chinese Won't Be Happy | Main | More Foul Deeds »

Opening The Frontier

Rick Tumlinson has some useful suggestions for NASA, and the government. I doubt if they'll follow them.

Posted by Rand Simberg at March 11, 2005 12:19 PM
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.transterrestrial.com/mt-diagnostics.cgi/3514

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference this post from Transterrestrial Musings.
Comments

In other NASA news, Bush nominates Griffin

Posted by Bill White at March 11, 2005 02:18 PM

Yes, exactly the wrong guy, from the standpoint of implementing Tumlinson's agenda. I don't see that as good news for a program that's inclusive of commercial space.

Posted by Rand Simberg at March 11, 2005 02:22 PM

Rand - Despite his tenure at Space Industries? Seems to me that he brings a certain perspective as a result.

Posted by Mark R. Whittington at March 11, 2005 02:29 PM

This statement, made by Griffin in October 2003 to Congress, probably annoys Rand:

"On the engineering side, the first order of business is largely to restore capabilities that we once had, and then to make them more reliable and cost effective. It may not be impossible to consider returning to the moon, or going to Mars, without a robust heavy-lift launch capability, but it is certainly silly. Our last Saturn V was launched thirty years ago, and while I do not necessarily advocate resurrecting an outdated design, this is the class of capability which is needed for the human space flight enterprise."

Credit due to SpaceRef:

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=10683

Posted by Bill White at March 11, 2005 02:52 PM


> Rand - Despite his tenure at Space Industries? Seems to me that he brings
> a certain perspective as a result.

Griffin's perspective was shown when he co-authored a report that stated "no human-rated spacecraft has been developed in the last 20 years" -- one month *after* Mike Melvill earned his FAA astronaut wings.

Posted by at March 11, 2005 04:56 PM

Pete Wordan thinks Griffin will do just fine by the private sector.

Posted by Mark R. Whittington at March 11, 2005 08:32 PM

How about Shenzhou? That is a human-rated spacecraft too.

Posted by Gojira at March 12, 2005 06:49 AM


Post a comment
Name:


Email Address:


URL:


Comments: