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Shoot many robots save editor9/17/2023 ![]() I like space flight and stuff, too, but in the near term, we've got to get other rooms in our house in order first. There are other priorities that must come first. Cancelling a project now, in the face of enormous budget problems, does not mean that he or anyone is against funding them on principle. Quote:Originally posted by Skoop:quote:If Obama is really against the funding of projects to further man's intimate and interactive exploration of space then I fart in his general direction. The only thing they can ever succeed at doing is sinking the SDLV concept altogether and dooming us to LEO for the next two decades. By itself it's an interesting "open source" approach to engineering, but unfortunately its backers are pushing it very hard to little avail, and have resorted to tearing down Ares at every possible opportunity to make their concept look better. It will never fly, because it offers no significant advantages over Ares, has it's own set of disadvantages, has no guarantees of even it's stated advantages, and at this point would very likely take longer to complete than simply continuing with Ares. It's had no serious engineering work done on it. It's a powerpoint rocket put together by a bunch of civilians with the assistance of some disaffected NASA employees. ![]() Quote:Originally posted by John Reed:I'm a little surprised that there hasn't been any discussion about the DIRECT program: like NASA is still in job-protection mode, but maybe I'm missing something.Pokrface, others: comments?J It's because DIRECT isn't a "program". ![]()
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