tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3673435362400368888.post383260467295480829..comments2023-04-01T13:39:24.156-07:00Comments on RocketsAndSuch: Alms for the PoorRocket Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109496878476775729noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3673435362400368888.post-28292789524096525572008-03-18T18:32:00.000-07:002008-03-18T18:32:00.000-07:00In my opinion, the Direct system is the best way t...In my opinion, the Direct system is the best way to go. I am simply a citizen who wants his space program to be lean, mean and pristine. I am not a spacecraft or launch vehicle engineer.<BR/><BR/>In my opinion, I'd like to see the Emperor get a little comeuppance, and possibly worse, like a jury of his peers...... It's arrogance at best, and fraudulence at worst....<BR/><BR/>In any case, this has the potential to severely cripple or main our manned spaceflight program. I do hope and pray that the core ideas of the US Space Exploration Policy can bee saved. At least the Jupiter 120 can put the thing into orbit with all of it's safety back-ups intact......Doom Pilothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12854709172750734243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3673435362400368888.post-15840983895552805212008-03-18T17:52:00.000-07:002008-03-18T17:52:00.000-07:00If it walks like a skunk, talks like a skunk and l...If it walks like a skunk, talks like a skunk and looks like a skunk, and on top of all that it even smells like a skunk, then low and behold it may very well be a skunk. Whoever thought that a skunk could work in a situation where bold, clear and honest thinking is required, probably has a very short memory of skunks and their methods.<BR/><BR/>When a skunk dies in a horrible laboratory accident, you need to clear the dead skunk out of the area, otherwise it becomes almost impossible to think clearly.<BR/><BR/>So it goes with Orion and Ares I.<BR/><BR/>People need to start thinking very clearly on what can be salvaged from all of this, and I posit that only the 14 SSMEs and the Ares I upper stage (as a core stage) are worth saving in this disaster.<BR/><BR/>Everything else is just more smelly smoke, burnt rubber and burning money. Nasty stuff in our time of great national need, in space and on Earth, in the good old US of A.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com