The more Congress is involved in space the more it becomes made of FAIL
I’m watching the House Committee on Science and Technology’s hearing on the Augustine Committee’s summary report. This committee hearing is a complete cluster fuck. Mr. Augustine has repeatedly said that Constellation would make a good program if it had the extra $3 billion. He even said that Ares I is safe. He is simply not defending his Committee’s own findings. Even our ally Dana Rohrabacher ripped the findings apart.
I’ll state it here now: if this continues then our national space program will never go anywhere ever again. I think we just lost our space program. The ONLY option left for an American lead expansion into space is for the private industry to route around this steaming pile of shit.
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So frustrating. It’s almost criminal that the people who are tasked with shaping our future as leaders in space are clueless politicians. They aren’t qualified to make those decisions.
I’m begging everyone to actually know who you’re voting for, not because of party lines, but because you know what they stand for and they’re competent enough to be tasked with monumental decisions like this. Shame on us for allowing these people to govern us.
People would rather hope for change than demand it.
I was annoyed that one fellow who was pimping Ares denied any awareness of commercial passenger launch projects.
I share your pessimism. Beyond crew taxis I don’t think commercial space can expect much from NASA. The taxis are certainly a step in the right direction, but without drastically lower cost to orbit we’re still going nowhere. And that just isn’t going to happen with an SDLV sucking up all launch demand of an exploration program. My main hope is that NASA will try to build a launch vehicle that is big enough to be cancelled before it is finished. Anything else than some sort of SDLV seems unlikely at this point.
It’s amazing that after nearly 5 months there’s virtually no forward progress. Nearly everything you’ve said here is still relevant.
Sorry it took me so long to publish it (I haven’t checked a lot of the site for a while). But here is a link of the posted article on our website…http://openae.org/business-news/65-news-why-not-fund-the-program-of-record .
It will remain on our front page for a little while and then categorized under news on our website. Thanks for letting me publish it!
There is also a couple more articles that with your permission I want to publish as well (all with the link back of course!)
All the best,
Aleksey