Clark Lindsey: King For A Day

09/02/03 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

(via Transterrestrial Musings) Clark Lindsey (aka Mr. HobbySpace) has an excellent plan for what he would do with NASA if he were “declared King of NASA”. Roughly:

• Purchase more Soyuz/Progress missions to keep the ISS up
• Starting in ‘06, contract for ISS re-supply flights
• a revitalized suborbital science program as a way to do science and help create a suborbital marketplace
• move science and deep space probes to university, research institute and commercial contracts
• funding for X vehicles that are not intended to be operational
• NASA should work on innovative space technologies to support large scale space settlements
• expanded development of deep space transports

He calculates all of this using 'shuttle equivalent' dollars. I.e. 1 $SE = $500 million.

So who wants to start the Lindsey For NASA Administrator campaign?