…and NASA’s integrity. It’s frustrating that there is nothing in the news about this.
9 thoughts on “Propellant Depots”
The world beyond space advocates cares little about space, other then the “circus” human spaceflight occasionally provides. So why should the media waste time on a “technical” debate?
Because it involves the purposeful and fraudulent waste of tens of billions of dollars in taxpayers’ money?
Just a thought.
But its your experts against their experts. And their experts are respected more by those outside of the community of space advocates.
The “experts” can only deny reality for so long. When something can’t go on, eventually it won’t.
Who knows when that’ll be?
Yep, years down the road, but in the interim Space Advocates have wasted more time because of their focus on NASA contracting as the enabler of New Space, versus focusing on serving real commercial markets.
“your experts against their experts”? The point of this post is that the debate would be “your experts and their experts against their Congressmen’s lobbyists”.
At $4+ billion a year projected, it’s certainly up there with the most egregious examples of waste and patronage, but not out of the ballpark. Which means, not out of Congressional capacity to argue for what’s necessary. Particularly in the window where commercial’s aspirations to compete at fixed cost for heavy lift contracts is embryonic.
Yes, smoke and mirrors is the state of affairs and SLS is just one example. It is such a good example of bad governance that it could be the poster child except it doesn’t work politically like Solyndra.
It’s too bad we have such a large class of useful idiots. They would be a lot less useless if we could direct their anger where it needs to be. That bring us back to the media. What do you do to get even the ‘fair and balanced’ to report the truth without all the muddy water they include for ratings?
There has to be some way to get rid of the ‘Pravda’ media. We will one day cease exist if we don’t.
The world beyond space advocates cares little about space, other then the “circus” human spaceflight occasionally provides. So why should the media waste time on a “technical” debate?
Because it involves the purposeful and fraudulent waste of tens of billions of dollars in taxpayers’ money?
Just a thought.
But its your experts against their experts. And their experts are respected more by those outside of the community of space advocates.
The “experts” can only deny reality for so long. When something can’t go on, eventually it won’t.
Who knows when that’ll be?
Yep, years down the road, but in the interim Space Advocates have wasted more time because of their focus on NASA contracting as the enabler of New Space, versus focusing on serving real commercial markets.
“your experts against their experts”? The point of this post is that the debate would be “your experts and their experts against their Congressmen’s lobbyists”.
At $4+ billion a year projected, it’s certainly up there with the most egregious examples of waste and patronage, but not out of the ballpark. Which means, not out of Congressional capacity to argue for what’s necessary. Particularly in the window where commercial’s aspirations to compete at fixed cost for heavy lift contracts is embryonic.
Yes, smoke and mirrors is the state of affairs and SLS is just one example. It is such a good example of bad governance that it could be the poster child except it doesn’t work politically like Solyndra.
It’s too bad we have such a large class of useful idiots. They would be a lot less useless if we could direct their anger where it needs to be. That bring us back to the media. What do you do to get even the ‘fair and balanced’ to report the truth without all the muddy water they include for ratings?
There has to be some way to get rid of the ‘Pravda’ media. We will one day cease exist if we don’t.