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How will Obama built a heavy-lifter in 5 years starting from scratch? Obama BIG White Lie! Over $1 trillion down presidential black hole with 2 failed stimulus packages. Fannie and Freddie are sink holes. $10 billion invested in CONSTELLATION down self-same black hole. Obama plan: U.S. will never leave earth orbit. CONSTELLATION'S Ares heavy- lifter will be ready in 2017 - give or take a year. Obama: Heavy- lifter will lead to manned missions to asteroids, Mars, moons of moons. It's Ares or we relinquish our dominance in space. He has no intention of keeping his space word SpaceX claims it will carry 55,000 pounds of cargo to ISS altitude of 185 miles like Space Shuttle in early 2012 if it receives additional $1 billion from fed gov (cost-over-run), otherwise, 25,000 pounds to altitude of 135 miles - useless! It states that it will begin manned flights in early 2014! We are Capitalist unlike the president. We want SpaceX's Falcon 9 to be successful, efficient and safe; we don't won't it to undergo pressure to realize an unrealistic timetable. Due to large-scale upgrades between 1992-97 Space Shuttle became 90% cost-effective and each shuttle has been certified for 150 more flights. Most experts are recommending that shuttle be extended for 2 to 3 years to be on safe side no more then that. SpaceX doesn't have a blueprint for a spacecraft; it orbited a 'dummy.' Original Proposal 1: NASA and Boeing have a blueprint for a mini-Orion and were doing R & D on it when it became a victim of budget cuts. ISS would have been completed on schedule had this cargo vessel not been canceled. We're confident it could be flight-ready in 2 to 3 years. Original Proposal 2: It is reasonable to assume that X-37B will be operational in 2 years if it already isn't. Certainly, civilian version could be ready in 2 years. Due to new directive NASA can work more closely with military. Speculated manned version in 3 to 3 1/2 years as a joint NASA/Air Force with classified safeguards. Falcon 9 can begin limited cargo flights in 4 years and manned flights in 6 if NASA-certified. It should begin working with NASA and Boeing and NASA and Air Force immediately. NASA should turn over mini- Orion and x-37b (let's call it CONSTITUTION when it becomes operational in order to drive liberals crazy!) to Boeing/SpaceX and virtual autonomy for earth orbital missions. (We have plans regarding modified unmanned Constitution and GPS). SRI, we hope that he isn't a real Rev., we don't want to wind up in a black hole!Another thing: Obamo wants to shift NASA focus from space to green pseudo- science. Look at NASA record: Unique gov program $7 return in pure science and spin- offs, applications (technology for our economic engine and it's budget is only .5 % of total federal budget - NASA in your home, car, office, factory, farm, hospital) for $1 budgeted. Rev., we saw your critique of NASA on Facebook. Don't strike me with a bolt of lightning for telling truth...was that thunder? Now, hat we finally get a chance at; RE- REBUTTAL. CONSTELLATION represents a step backward for it is using Apollo/Saturn and Space Shuttle technologies. Not so. It is building in those proven technologies which is cost-effective while it develops cutting-edge technology: 'artificial' gravity; solar power-generation (hockey- sticks should like that) ion rocket engine (which may be used on Mars mission and is part of CONSTELLATION program); (as is) fusion reactor. Energy independence: is estimated that we will have safe, much less- expensive then fission, non-greenhouse gas-producing (another one for the cattle farts; excuse my language in case you are a real Rev.) between 2030-35. NASA could accelerate that process. A NASA engineer - we won't mention his name - says we have to purge ourselves of the present top NASA administrators and the NASA can enjoy a stellar future. With Obama plan: we fade to black. -Richard DePersio (former, space researcher; former, museum educator - Thanks, SRI, this article will appear here first, we should combine our efforts and create something bigger and better. we have ideas).
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| RICKADDSITE has shared a video with you on YouTube: NASA has been busy planning for a new spacecraft, the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), to be able to rendezvous with the ISS and then to take a crew back to the moon in conjunction with the Lunar Surface Access Module (LSAM). A Crew Launch Vehicle, named Ares I, derived from the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) will deliver the CEV to low Earth Orbit (LEO) while a larger rocket, Ares 5, will deliver ISS cargo of the LSAM to LEO. Once in LEO, the CEV and LSAM will dock and a J-2X Earth Departure Stage (EDS) will deliver the CEV/LSAM to Low Lunar Orbit (LLO) at 100 km. The EDS is discarded and CEV/LSAM temporarily decouple. The LSAM then performs the Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) to deliver the LSAM to the lunar surface will all 4 astronauts onboard. After some amount of time on the surface, an ascent stage from the LSAM boosts the crew back to LLO and the ascent stage docks with the unattended CEV. The ascent stage is discarded and the service module section of the CEV boosts... more | |
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| RICKADDSITE has shared a video with you on YouTube: This is NASA's conceptual human mission to Mars using 3 plasma rockets (VASIMR), 3 nuclear reactors (similar to the reactors used on nuclear submarines). The reactors are extended on booms in order to minimize the amount of shielding required to shield the spacecraft. The large fuel tanks would provide shielding astronauts against radiation from the Van Allen belts during the Earth departure phase and also against cosmic radiation once outside the influence of Earth's magnetic field. An electric propulsion thruster such as VASIMR would provide a faster travel time compared to using chemical rockets. The VASIMR engines would speed up the spacecraft towards Mars and then slow down the spacecraft once past the half way point from Earth to Mars. Ion engines in general provide a low amount of thrust (up to several Newtons or tens of Newtons), but do so for many hours or months. In this way, a spacecraft with a given mass can continually speed up and attain veloci... more | |
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