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Chris Kraft Speaks

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It’s time for NASA (and Congress) to get real:

So come on NASA, wake up! Take the lid off and turn loose the human resources you already have in place. Most of these bright people came to NASA excited about the future, about going back to the Moon to stay and becoming a part of what could be another renaissance in space.

Building a great big rocket is not a necessary expenditure at this time. In fact, the budget that will be consumed by this big rocket will prevent NASA from any meaningful human exploration for at least the next decade and probably beyond. We don’t have to march in place while we wait for the powers that be to cancel it. Let’s be innovative; let’s wake up the sleeping giant and have at returning to the Moon right now.

Unfortunately, NASA isn’t the problem.

10 thoughts on “Chris Kraft Speaks”

  2. Has Chris Kraft received his Internet Rocket Club membership card?

    I’m sure Mark Whittington will be along soon to tell us how “ignorant” those remarks are. 5, 4, 3…

  3. Wasn’t Kraft one of the biggest SLS supporters? It looks as if his goal is still to preserve jobs at JSC, he just no longer believes SLS will do that.

    1. Ding, ding, ding!

      SLS does nothing for JSC, which is not a rocket development center but a manned space operations center. I tried telling Kay Bailey Hutchison’s staffers that.

      Unfortunately, it was like talking to a fencepost. That’s why I’m now working for one of the candidates who wants to replace her.

        1. In all fairness, they probably don’t have much choice. A friend who used to work in that office tells me that life is not pleasant for any staffer that tells her something she doesn’t want to hear.

      3. Edward, I am intrigued. Who are you working for and what is it about his space policy that you find attractive?

  4. Edward, I’m not going to say anything like that at all. It is interesting, though, that Kraft offers and endorses no alternative. Perhaps he is trying to say that we just can’t afford to explore space.

    1. Mark, Kraft did endorse an alternative. He said:

      “The U.S. and the world already have a large set of space assets — both human and machines — that can be immediately utilized. NASA engineers and scientists and the aerospace industry are full of innovative and unique ideas on how to use these vehicles.”

      Maybe it’s one that you don’t like, but he provided one.

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