But buried within is a prizewinning quote from the irony-challenged senior Senator from Florida.
Nelson, the Florida senator who is a key advocate for NASA and the administration’s strategy, criticized the Republicans in the House for overreaching.
“A committee of politicians doesn’t know better than the experts in aerospace and science,” Nelson said.
This from a Senator who personally sponsored legislation forcing NASA to build a shuttle-derived heavy-lift launch vehicle, and when they balked, bullied NASA’s senior management to build that “monster rocket” (his phrase) despite their showing him that it didn’t fit in the budget. And that was before sequestration.
I guess committees of politicians are only experts in designing rockets, not in choosing where to send them.
Linda Billings (whom I’ve known for thirty years or so) seems to have a problem with space development and settlement. I’d argue with her, if I could figure out just what her objection is. Perhaps there’s a clue in that she thinks that Howard Zinn’s tracts are just great.
Clark Lindsey and his wife performed the ceremony with some friends, and has a review. Our experience has been that people who are not generally into space enjoy it quite a bit, if you can get them to do it.
…men first walked on the moon. And this past Tuesday (when we did The Space Show on our ceremony, that I hope everyone performs tonight), was the forty-fourth anniversary of the launch, when the Saturn dropped it first stage into the Atlantic. And they’ve confirmed the find of one of the engines.
My answer is no, without even reading the link. I think that he could throw someone there (though they’d get cooked from the air friction on the way up), and they’d come back down unless they had escape velocity when they got to the top of the atmosphere, because there wouldn’t be an orbital insertion impulse. But if he punched them hard enough to do so, his fist would probably just take their head off. If he did it through their solar plexus, it would probably just go right through. People don’t consider the structural issues associated with superheroes and normal-human interactions with them.
Now Ralph Kramden, on the other hand… But then, he never carried out the threat.
a) You shouldn’t be able to install an angular-rate (or any kind of attitude) sensor upside down.
b) The vehicle should be able to sense that it has an upside-down sensor and automatically abort.
It did look like it was having guidance problems in the video, and that would sure explain why.