Past Perfect, Future Misleading

Fox News ^ | August 28, 2003 | Rand Simberg

[NonZeroSum]

The Columbia Accident Investigation Board report was released on Tuesday.

I haven't read it in its entirety, but I've skimmed the whole thing.

The Gehman Commission is to be commended. They've pulled few punches and provided a lot of useful guidance to NASA to get the shuttle flying again -- if not completely safely, at least much more so. I also recommend reading the sections on history and space policy to anyone interested in those subjects. They provide very good insight into how we got into the mess we're in, which is to say that they've dealt very well with describing the past.

[NonZeroSum]

Time to end this nonsense about NASA running spacelines.

[NonZeroSum]

Another space ping...

[Brett66]

Is it possible for the United States to "retain a continuing capability to send people into space" without NASA being in charge of that?

YES,YES,YES!

We are in the middle of fundamental and historical shift away from government programs providing access to space to private enterprise providing real solutions to this. I wish more people understood what's happening at this point in history, but that's ok, it's going to steamroll into peoples consciousness soon enough.

[.cnI redruM]

The US Air Force will one day assume the responsibility of defending and militarily dominating the ionosphere and the exosphere. let the Air Force take space exploration over. They deal with aerodynamics for a living and are not shilling for environmental extremists.

[jimkress]

End the policy BS and years of wasting taxpayer's money. Get the government out of the (non-defense) space business. Abolish NASA. Sell its assets to private companies for their use in commercial local and interplanetary development.

[anymouse]

Space policy ping