Taylor Dinerman says that NASA is finally moving in the right direction. We’ll see. Particularly after the Augustine review.
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Taylor Dinerman says that NASA is finally moving in the right direction. We’ll see. Particularly after the Augustine review.
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“NASA was hardly enthusiastic about this approach. It believed that it would be many years before such Reusable Launch Vehicles (RLVs) would be ready to fly, and some inside the agency saw it as a threat to its monopoly on human space flight.”
To be fair, it was a decision by Dan Goldin himself (albeit with nothing approaching unanimous support in NASA), using discretionary funds that kept the DC-X test program alive and flying, after SDIO funding was not released for it to continue under them:
http://www.islandone.org/SpaceAccessUpdates/940202-SAU30.html
http://yarchive.net/space/launchers/dc-x.html
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/x-33/facts_63.htm
And, IMHO, was perhaps the best decision Dan made while there.
However, his resistance to Dennis Tito’s flight to ISS with the Russians was, at best, shameful…