Keep the shuttle flying: August 2018

Friday, August 31, 2018

NASA Administrator Bridenstine: 'We're not going to do flags and footprints again' - SpaceFlight Insider

http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/nasa/nasa-administrator-bridenstine-were-not-going-to-do-flags-and-footprints-again/

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Wednesday, August 29, 2018

NASA Chief Wants to Send Humans to the Moon — 'To Stay'

https://www.space.com/41599-nasa-moon-space-priorities-jim-bridenstine-update.html

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Saturday, August 25, 2018

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Space Force

Final Report on Organizational and Management Structure for the National Security Space Components of the Department of Defense

"Establishing a sixth branch of the Armed Forces requires Congressional action. This report outlines immediate steps by the Department of Defense to protect U.S. vital interests in space, including:

- Accelerate space technology and anchor development initiatives to the modernization priorities outlined in the National Defense Strategy,
- Establish a Space Development Agency, a joint organization charged with rapidly developing and fielding next-generation capabilities,
- Establish a Space Operations Force of career space experts who are trained, promoted and retained as space warfighting professionals and who form a space community of engineers, scientists, intelligence experts, operators, strategists and more,
- Establish an affordable and efficient operating structure with accountable civilian oversight to provide service and support functions for the Space Force,
- Establish a new U.S. Space Command to improve and evolve space warfighting, including integrating innovative force designs, concepts of operation, doctrines, tactics, techniques and procedures."

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Friday, August 10, 2018

Letter From Astronauts and Apollo Veterans Regarding Space Shuttle Retirement and Risk to ISS Operations

Key points still valid !!

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=37583

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Loss of Shuttle capability devastating to USA !

Jim Worrall

Lack of Launch Capacity Leaves USA Dependent Upon China / Russia

The Space Force is useless with no vehicle to project force into space. Are we going to continue to pay China and Russia to ferry us into space? Obama damaged national security by allowing the Space Shuttle to be cancelled without a suitable replacement.

We need the heavier lift capacity of the Space Shuttle to control Earth's orbit and Low Earth's orbit. China and Russia have advanced their satellite progran exponentially by examining the satellites we pay them to launch

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