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Once again, NASA has proposed to develop a replacement for the troubled Space Shuttle. This year's project goes by the ungrammatical moniker "Orbital Space Plane". An interim version of OSP called the CRV (Crew Rescue Vehicle) to ...

Cheeze louise! "Orbital Space Plane"?? "Crew Rescue Vehicle"?? This stuff sounds like it comes straight off Thunderbirds Are Go!....and the mental image that goes with it.

Look, you pencil necks at NASA, like or not PR is the name of the game- its how you get money, support, backing, you name it. Get yourself a top notch PR firm. Have them polish up your image - big time - and, for the love of pete, get better names for your goods and services!

The shuttle was designed 40 years ago. NASA has no idea what they are going to replace it with. Please tell us how you spin that one for success.

That's only one of many many issues NASA hasn't even a third grade level response for.

We landed on the moon in 1969. We haven't been back since the early 1970s. Our first Mars mission will probably be after 2050 or thereabouts. Even then we'll
probably visit, cut and run.

Outside of high-school level experaments, I'm at a loss to figure out what the shuttle has been good for. We fixed the Hubble and one or two other satellites. While
I like that, was it worth the expense? If it would have been used as a stepping stone vehicle, to move at least some of the human race off planet, I'd support it.
Instead it seems like a enormous failure. BTW, I don't count two to five people on a space station in danger of never being completed to be a shining success. No
this is not the example of moving people off the planet I had in mind.

We have a space station designed with pre 1950s ideas. Even Disney and Stanley Kubrik knew about artificial gravity. We know of the problems with bone loss,
yet didn't incorporate artificial gravety into the design. We could have achieved weightless structures along-side a facility with gravity. We didn't bother.

I could go on. The list is longer than my arm.

We developed the space program, entered space and landed on the moon in a little over ten years. In thirty-four years since, what have we done? Thirty-four
years!!!