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Military use of space is coming, Trump can help America prepare | TheHill
http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/366663-military-use-of-space-is-coming-trump-can-help-america-prepare
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Lost in space—Capability to Assemble large structures in orbit!
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lost-in-space/article/2568052
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Friday, December 22, 2017
Why NASA might outsource the return to the moon | TheHill
http://thehill.com/opinion/technology/365918-why-nasa-might-outsource-the-return-to-the-moon
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Lost in Space by Abbey
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Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Monday, November 20, 2017
STS record !
The two failures weren't something inherent with the design or operations of the Space Shuttles but rather, a very Screwed Up NASA / Shuttle Management!!!!
BIGGS who was working with Space Transportation in developing the beginning of a quasi-private ownership of at least 1 Space Shuttle for ~$1.5 Billion (1981 dollar 'buying power) & SpaceTrans would do all the "Marketing" of the; SPACE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM was exactly what President Ronald Reagan was advocating; the eventual privatization, initially 50% & eventually 90% of long term Human activity in space---lunar & asteriod mining, human settlements there & O'Neill Space Settlements, while NASA would be focused mainly on purely scientific investigations of the Solar System & Astronomy in general.
Biggs informed President Reagan 6 names of men NOT to be charge of NASA because anyone of those six men would destroy the Civilian Space Program and especially the Space Shuttle Program.
Reagan, for some reasons didn't listen to Biggs, hired one of the "six" to oversee NASA & that person was the 'Acting Director' of NASA when the Challenger was loss..
Loss not because of some inherent flaw in the design / engineering but BECAUSE OF INEPT MANAGEMENT!!!
The same goes for the tragic and preventable loss of Columbia Shuttle & Crew!!!
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Sunday, November 19, 2017
Get shuttle flying!
Get the Space Shuttle Back In the Air!
By WALTER CUNNINGHAM
Published in the Houston Chronicle, May 16, 2003
Walter Cunningham was a member of the backup crew for Apollo 1, served on the Apollo 1 Accident Investigating Committee and flew Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission. His book, The All-American Boys, is available in the bookstores.
Those of us on the first two flight crews knew that our own over-confidence played a role in the fire. We had many safety concerns about the Apollo 1 spacecraft but thought we could "fly the crates they shipped them in." Weren't we the best pilots in the world?
When it was determined that some of the Challenger crew may have been alive until impacting the water, two minutes and 45 seconds later, engineers came up with a bailout "scheme." It incorporates a fireman's pole out the hatch, launch and reentry flight suits and requires the Orbiter to be in "stable, controlled flight at an altitude of 30-40,000 feet." Shuttle pilots with whom I have spoken say it provides more the hope of a bailout than a real bailout capability. It did allow everyone-NASA engineers and management, Congress and even the public-to feel they had done something in the name of safety.
Now we are dealing with the most recent failure in the dangerous business of exploring space. Once more, there is a real risk of overkill as Congressional Committees, engineers, and managers concluded they have a duty to take all human risk out of the operation.
The Shuttle Thermal Protective System is a complex and impressive solution to the reentry heating problem. The tile component is extremely fragile; the reinforced carbon-carbon a bit more robust. Design requirements say the delicate heat-shield tiles should not be hit by anything, even raindrops. It was, obviously, never expected to launch through a hailstorm of external tank insulation, the most likely cause of the Columbia disaster. That possibility was avoided-or so NASA believed-by the selection of the foam insulation material and the adhesive for attachment. Foam insulation has come off the external tank on a majority of missions. After 20 years of successful reentries with some tile damage, management became used to the risk. Since NASA did not consider some damage to the tiles on launch a safety issue, it was only a slight stretch to conclude that Columbia would be okay, as well.
Once again, over confidence and complacency have encouraged bad judgment. Our weakness was not so much in our equipment as in our decision processes. But management's honest and incorrect conclusion that the falling insulation caused little damage did not lead to the loss of the crew! It was the long series of decisions by NASA management to continue launching Orbiters through shedding insulation that lead to loss of the Columbia and its crew.
Even if they had correctly concluded that the insulation had damaged the Orbiter's thermal Protection system enough to compromise reentry, there was absolutely nothing that could have been done to save the crew. All those knowledgeable about space flight and the Space Shuttle know that. When Shuttle Program Manager, Ron Dittemore, was honest enough to say so, NASA Administrator, Sean O'Keefe, took exception, saying, "To suggest that we would have done nothing is positively fallacious. If there had been . . . a clear indication (of problems) . . . there would have been no end to the efforts . . .."
O'Keefe, who has otherwise handled the Columbia disaster very well, was displaying three deficiencies: lack of space experience, lack of systems knowledge, and lack of awareness that, in manned spaceflight, it's only results that count, not efforts.
During the Nineties, under continuous budget pressure, NASA delayed some scheduled safety improvements. This reduced the emphasis on safety and contributed to an attitude of doing the job in spite of budget deficiencies. So far, it does not appear to have played a direct role in the Columbia disaster.
Second guessers have had a field day speculating on what NASA could have done to save Columbia. Even if we had known STS-107 was in trouble, all the second guessing schemes were virtually impossible, took dangerous shortcuts on procedures and training, and violated operating norms and mission rules developed over decades of spaceflight. They would all have introduced more risk to an already hazardous undertaking.
Let me repeat, there was absolutely nothing that could have been done to get STS-107 back!
There is no dearth of proposed hardware changes and/or operating restrictions to keep future Orbiters from suffering the fate of Columbia. Most of the proposals for cockpit escape capsules, post-launch external inspections, and restricting orbiters to International Space Station (ISS) compatible orbits seem to lose sight of why the Space Shuttle was developed in the first place. It was to carry large, heavy payloads and crews into near earth orbit on a routine basis. It was not to be 100 percent foolproof and absolutely safe. No country can afford such a luxury. President Kennedy did not say, "We will make spaceflight absolutely safe in this decade and when it is safe, we will go to the moon."
Astronauts have always understood there is only so much that can be done to reduce the inherent risk in every space mission. The thermal protection system has always been the weak underbelly of the Orbiter - its Achilles heel. NASA should improve this critical system if possible but it might be easier to eliminate any possibility of damage from other parts of the launch system. I mean the foam insulation on the external tank.
Retrofitting cockpit escape capsules to the Shuttle fleet would take years and cost billions. One scheme would reduce the useful operating time by spending hours or days performing EVA inspections of the underside of each Orbiter following launch. Restricting shuttle missions to ISS compatible orbits would exact a 30 percent payload penalty and greatly limit operational flexibility.
NASA would be better off concentrating on a fix for the External Tank insulation problem and getting the Orbiters back in the air to do what they do best-fly.
Considering what it does, the Space Shuttle really has a good safety record. It is certainly the safest manned space vehicle the U.S. has ever developed. Its record of two failures in 113 missions translates into reliability greater than 98 percent-and management decisions could probably have avoided both of the failures. Considering what the Space Shuttle has accomplished in the past 22 years opening up a new frontier, it has been a marvelously safe machine. How many died opening up the American West in the nineteenth century? How many aviation pioneers lost their lives in the 30 years before commercial aviation took off in the 1930s?
It's time we acknowledged that space is the most dangerous environment into which man has ever ventured. There will always be risk associated with manned space flight. There are also gains to be made from the exploration of space. We should reduce the risk to the point where the gain to be made exceeds the perceived risk and then GET ON WITH THE JOB!
Chris Kraft letter to the editor on 25 May
Yes, he was right on!
Much has been written about the Columbia accident, the whole gamut from some learned and some not so learned. However, Walter Cunningham's Outlook was, without question, the best I have read on the subject. He showed a thorough understanding of the issues and problems that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is facing. Hopefully, all those at NASA and on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, in Congress and at the White House will recognize the significance of his analysis. It was right on!
Christopher C. Kraft Jr., former director, Johnson Space Center, Houston
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Saturday, November 18, 2017
American Space Renaissance Act – To permanently secure the United States as the preeminent spacefaring nation.
http://spacerenaissanceact.com/
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Critical capability!
America needs this!
Write your representative demanding NASA develop a new winged space shuttle able to take off (launch) & land from any international airport runway!!!
Increase NASA'S budget to at LEAST 3-5% of our Federal Budget for the next 5-7:yrs, with the stipulation that Private Industries, if learning that space is profitable, take over the major investing & manned space operations including developing & usage of lunar mining, settlements then NASA'S budget could be cutback to around 2-3% of the Federal Budget.
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Saturday, November 11, 2017
Posing on your site
You have mine
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Fwd: [Keep the shuttle flying] New comment on New Free e-Books Available about 2 Famous NASA Spa....
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Shuttle
Just finished the 1/144 Shuttle MLP, which now holds the model I built in the '80s.
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The Space Review: More problems for big space telescopes
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3359/1
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Pretty damn good!
I saw this post on FB and had to share it. It would be good if you shared to help the misguided, and poorly informed. (JRice)
WHAT HAS PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP DONE SINCE HE HAS BEEN IN OFFICE ……
1. Supreme Court Judge Gorsuch
2. 59 missiles dropped in Syria
3. He took us out of TPP
4. Illegal immigration is now down 70%( the lowest in 17 years)
5. Consumer confidence highest since 2000 at index 125.6
6. Mortgage applications for new homes rise to a seven year high
7. Arranged from 7% to 24% Tariff on lumber from Canada
8. Bids for border wall are well underway
9. Pulled out of the lopsided Paris accord
10. Keystone pipeline approved
11. NATO allies boost spending by 4.3%
12. Allowing VA to terminate bad employees
13. Allowing private healthcare choices for veterans
14. More than 600,000. Jobs created
15. Median household income at a 7 year high
16. The Stock Market is at the highest ever in its history
17. China agreed to American import of beef
18. $89 Billion saved in regulation rollbacks
19. Rollback of A Regulation to boost coal mining
20. MOAB for ISIS
21. Travel ban reinstated
22. Executive order for religious freedom
23. Jump started NASA
24. $600 million cut from UN peacekeeping budget
25. Targeting of MS13 gangs
26. Deporting violent illegal immigrants
27. Signed 41 bills to date
28. Created a commission on child trafficking
29. Created a commission on voter fraud
30. Created a commission for opioids addiction
31. Giving power to states to drug test unemployment recipients
32. Unemployment lowest since May 2007
33. Historic Black College University initiative
34. Women In Entrepreneurship Act
35. Created an office for illegal immigrant crime victims
36. Reversed Dodd-Frank
37. Repealed DOT ruling which would have taken power away from local governments for infrastructure planning
38. Order to stop crime against law enforcement
39. End of DAPA program
40. Stopped companies from moving out of America
41. Promoted businesses to create American Jobs
42. Encouraged country to once again – 'Buy American and hire American'
43. Cutting regulations – 2 for every one created
45. Review of all trade agreements to make sure they are America first
46. Apprentice program
47. Highest manufacturing surge in 3 years
48. $78 Billion promised reinvestment from major businesses like Exxon, Bayer, Apple, SoftBank, Toyota
49. Denied FBI a new building
50. $700 million saved with F-35 renegotiation
51. Saves $22 million by reducing white house payroll
52. Dept of Treasury reports a $182 billion surplus for April 2017 (2nd largest in history)
53. Negotiated the release of 6 US humanitarian workers held captive in Egypt
54. Gas prices lowest in more than 12 years
55. Signed An Executive Order To Promote Energy Independence and Economic Growth
56. Has already accomplished more to stop government interference into people's lives than any President in the history of America
57. President Trump has worked with Congress to pass more legislation in his first 100 days than any President since Truman
58. Has given head executive of each branches 6 month time frame, dated March 15, 2017, to trim the fat, restructure and improve efficiency of their branch. (Observe the push-back the leaks the lies as entrenched POWER refuses to go silently into that good night!)
59. Last, refused his Presidential pay check. Donated it to Veterans issues
I hope each and every one of you copy and paste this every where, every time you hear some dimwit say Trump hadn't done a thing! Bob Sr.
Ray Schneider, PhD
Associate Professor Emeritus
Bridgewater College
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It took 32 years for the 3 prior administrations to totally destroy this nation and her people, and Trump's first 6 months to begin a major unwind of all the prior traitorous issues.
Pretty da*n good for the first 6 months – wouldn't you say?
We owe President Trump a sincere debt of our gratitude.
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Monday, October 23, 2017
Capabilities critical to USA !
Go figure, we had in shuttle UNIQUE capabilities, that were the envy of the world.
We could accomplish tasks in EO that had not been accomplished by any other country, & by operating shuttle, we improved the following:
1. Improved designs for various systems & mfg. & test capabilities
2. Created tens of thousands of excellent jobs
3. Supported iss & maintained an improved safety state than is presently being done re Kraft letter on placing Iss in danger w/ o shuttle
4. Provided the option by maintaining a STS to accomplish important EO tasks, & to explore universe by placing exploration modules in EO.
5. Improve Iss research by providing equipment & supplies that can not be done with Soyuz & cargo transportation system.
6. By maintaining a multiplicity of operations & a dynamic program, provided a Dream for our youth to strive for.
7. Developed approaches/techniques for military operations in EO which are critical to the capabilities of national security
But, after spending billions , we scrap the effort, & develop capsule approach that will not be manned for several more years, & when it is will not come CLOSE to shuttle capabilities, meanwhile WE pay Russia.
Whole deal TOTALLY NONSENSICAL--- seem our leaders in Congress have lost their minds!!!!
Plus our less than useless potus!
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Saturday, October 21, 2017
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Control of Space
People, read carefully, & take action! Thanks, Jim Worrall, for reminding us as to importance of maintaining preeminent capabilities--- our future depends on it.
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Whomever Controls Space, Controls the Earth Below It
China is using stolen cutting edge western technology and money earned through unfair trade practices to rapidly build a premier space program.
If that weren't enough of an advantage, America has crippled NASA with tiny budgets and the destruction of our Space Shuttle.
I was disappointed, but not surprised, the Obama regime sabotaged our Space program but I expected a Republican administration to rapidly rebuild our Space Capacity.
Controling Earth's Orbit and Low Earth's Orbit is vital to our strategic interests. The welfare of our grandchildren depends upon how we meet the challenge posed by Russia and China today.
We must educate our political representatives to the vital importance we control space. Please join me in calling your Congressman and Senators. If they won't support our Space program they need to be replaced. The Capital Switchboard will connect you with your Congressman and Senators, 202-224-3121.
GOD bless you,
Jim Worrall
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Control of space!
Jim Worrall shared your post.
Whomever Controls Space, Controls the Earth Below It
China is using stolen cutting edge western technology and money earned through unfair trade practices to rapidly build a premier space program.
If that weren't enough of an advantage, America has crippled NASA with tiny budgets and the destruction of our Space Shuttle.
I was disappointed, but not surprised, the Obama regime sabotaged our Space program but I expected a Republican administration to rapidly rebuild our Space Capacity.
Controling Earth's Orbit and Low Earth's Orbit is vital to our strategic interests. The welfare of our grandchildren depends upon how we meet the challenge posed by Russia and China today.
We must educate our political representatives to the vital importance we control space. Please join me in calling your Congressman and Senators. If they won't support our Space program they need to be replaced. The Capital Switchboard will connect you with your Congressman and Senators, 202-224-3121.
GOD bless you,
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Needed capability!
The Hubble Space Telescope makes the point. Twenty-five years ago, on April 25, the space shuttle Discovery put the Hubble into orbit around Earth. In its quarter century of star gazing, Hubble has significantly altered the world's perception of the cosmos and furthered humankind's understanding of the universe. It has revealed previously unattainable properties of space and time. It is a unique scientific facility that continues to provide new views of the heavens and opens the door to discoveries.
But Hubble is more than just an outstanding science facility. It is living testimony to the value of humans in space and an incredible example of how humans and robotics can complement each other to achieve spectacular results.
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Lost in space
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lost-in-space/article/2568052
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Friday, August 11, 2017
The X-37B: Exploring expanded capabilities for ISS missions | NASASpaceFlight.com
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/03/x-37b-expanded-capabilities-iss-missions/
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Thursday, August 10, 2017
Trump's Space Council Head is a SpaceX Skeptic | Inverse
Part of Pace's doubts seem to stem from how badly SpaceX has managed to meet so many of its deadlines over the last decade. Nowhere is this clearer than in NASA's Commercial Crew Program, in which SpaceX (along with Boeing) are developing commercial spaceflight vehicles to allow the United States to once again use American spacecraft to send astronauts to the International Space Station and low Earth orbit.
Those vehicles were
Monday, August 7, 2017
Sunday, August 6, 2017
X37C
And those in Congress specializing in space are well aware that, had getting independent access to ISS for our nation really been Job #1 for NASA's leadership, then the Administration would have approved Boeing's proposal for the X-37B follow-on, the 5 crew X-37C. We are talking about a dependable spacecraft that can sit in orbit for over a year and NASA said no to making it a crewed vehicle. Why? Jim Hillhouse AS
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Why Russia and China Should Fear the X-37B Space Plane | The National Interest Blog
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/why-russia-china-should-fear-the-x-37b-space-plane-18099?page=2
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We must control Space !
How can you take our accomplishments in space & just act like oh that is history?
When anyone with half a brain knows the USA must be preeminent in space to survive!
Regardless of what Trump & Pence say, we are not expanding or even maintaining our 2011 capabilities!!!!
You better take action!!
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Friday, July 28, 2017
Lack of capabilities!
Look at all we have accomplished in Space, from Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Shuttle ---- now we have to use Russia to get to ISS! Totally nonsensical, all due to an excessive number of mentally deficient liberals in the US government! Look at healthcare & North Korea ---- wake up & get libs out including RINO's BEFORE too late.!!
Also, shuttle replacement , Commercial crew, an inferior approach ( except Dreamchaser)) is underfunded!!
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Fwd: Can Trump Really Make America Great Again?
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From: "Charles Payne" <CharlesPayne@Investorplace.com>
Date: July 25, 2017 at 8:03:08 AM CDT
To: Bobby <bobbygmartin1938@gmail.com>
Subject: Can Trump Really Make America Great Again?
Reply-To: CharlesPayne@Investorplace.com
A New American Revolution is Brewing
Fellow American,Can President Trump deliver on his promise to Make America Great Again?
That's the question everyone is asking right now.
My name is Charles Payne, and you may know me from my show on Fox Business News or my regular appearances on Fox News.
But I'm writing today to share what I can't tell you on TV.
So here's the truth about President Trump's ambitious plans…
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Don't be distracted by the healthcare drama consuming Washington and the liberal media—there is something much more important happening that most people are overlooking…
President Trump has already acted quickly to slash regulations that were crushing businesses, killing jobs and holding back spending.
His America-first focus has unleashed a new optimism that has sent the markets to new highs and has consumer confidence soaring.
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Monday, July 24, 2017
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X37C
Well, after talking to Capitol Hill staffers, they too are suffering the same head issues I am. At least I'm in good company.
Rather than talk about what Congress will or will not pay for, let's review what Congress has done since 2010 on space funding.
Congress has, on its own and despite both opposition from the Administration and aggressive delaying tactics on the SLS and Orion programs from NASA, appropriated those amounts needed to keep both Orion and SLS on track. And just as it's done since 2010, Congress is going to do what it wants on HSF, which is fund Orion and SLS fully.
What Congress sees is not a justification for Commercial Crew. Far from it. Congressional staffers are well aware of the true progress of that program and no, none of those players are getting us to ISS anytime soon. That's largely NASA's fault since Congress has informed it that the CCP program needed to down-selected years ago to better focus limited resources for faster progress. But NASA's leadership didn't do that for political reasons. Loose Boeing and CCP looses luster and respectability. Loose Sierra Nevada and we working on three capsule programs. And if you want to make engineers working in GN&C or ELSS laugh, tell them that one of the CCP companies will be flying crews by 2016. Guffaws galore.
And those in Congress specializing in space are well aware that, had getting independent access to ISS for our nation really been Job #1 for NASA's leadership, then the Administration would have approved Boeing's proposal for the X-37B follow-on, the 5 crew X-37C. We are talking about a dependable spacecraft that can sit in orbit for over a year and NASA said no to making it a crewed vehicle. Why?
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/03/x-37b-expanded-capabilities-iss-missions/
What Congress does see is that if we had not gone through the nonsense of 2010, we would be much closer to our own capability to launch crews to ISS than we are today. Instead, Neil Armstrong was right–the Administration changed our nation's HSF course in secret, without consultation, and mucked things up.
When it comes to the Moon, Congress is funding $3.5B annually on the DDTE for Orion and SLS. Anything else will have to wait for a new Administration as there is zero trust right now in Congress of anything the White House or NASA HQ are selling about human spaceflight.
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