Space Forum / Shuttle / August 2008

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Thu August 14, 2008
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Experts are growing increasingly concerned that
the United States will have to rely entirely upon Russia to take
astronauts to and from the international space station for at least five

I got to wondering after hearing on a TV show how many things are in orbit, can
astronauts aboard the shuttle, ISS or on an EVA  see objects that are out there
such as nearby satellites?  I know they're small in scale to space but with so
many, I just wondered. And I realize that ...

I'm sure. That program is a sh.t from the beginning.

If I told you I can make a ship that moves
in outerspace that has no "propellant" being used
and only uses electricity without forcing anything
out of the ship to make it move, would you believe me?

Just in case nobody has noticed yet: The Air Force and Boeing are about
to launch an orbital X-37B test flight on an Atlas V in November from
Cape Canaveral, with a landing planned at Edwards AFB. This pushes the
NASA launch of LRO into 2009, by the way.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.  —  By day, the engineers work on NASA's new Ares
moon rockets. By night, some go undercover to work on a competing
design.
These dissenting scientists and their backers insist they have created

It's looking more and more likely that at least one additional shuttle
flight will be added to the manifest to fly the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
to the ISS.
Both the House and Senate have authorized money for this.  Note this is not

Why does NASA persist in spending millions of dollars developing new,
innovative vehicles for traversing the moon? There are literally
dozens of desert vehicles on earth, quad runners, 4x4's, dune buggied
designs etc that already exist that would do what many of these

The solution seems to me is to let GM have a go at the next generation of
manned space vehicles. They are in desperate need for big contracts as
their auto sales dwindle. They are eminently qualified as they have
thousands of engineers on staff, backed up by software analysts, ...