SpaceX is slated to use the E-2 test stand. The test stand under construction is the A-3 test stand.
I never said otherwise.
It’s just typical of left wing politicians to waste taxpayers money like that.
This is why there is a Tea Party.
Pork is bipartisan.. like the space program.. but I repeat myself.
It’s bipartisan, when it’s not nationally important. Pork has no wings. That’s why pigs don’t fly.
From the article:
“Its funding survived thanks to Mississippi Republican senators led by Roger Wicker, who crafted a provision requiring the agency to complete the work.”
“Sen. Wicker’s Liberal Action Score: 0
The Liberal Action Score is calculated by compiling a series of measured liberal actions (both roll call voting and bill cosponsorship) in the 113th Congress and comparing Roger Wicker’s behavior against a liberal standard”
He may not be as conservative as you like, but he’s not generally considered a liberal.
Sounds like he’s just a hypocrite, how does pork fit in with sensible government spending , or small government?
“Obama’s request to kill Constellation was included in a 2010 bill approved by Congress. At the time, NASA already had spent $292 million on the A-3 test stand, and it needed another $57 million to finish the work, according to a February report by the agency’s inspector general, Paul Martin.”
It seems if already spent 292 million, and it’s not over budget [no idea if it was] you shouldn’t
cancel it.
You manage your budget on the planning of what you going to do. Don’t start things, spend pay for 1/2 or more of it, then cancel.
So main reason to cancel something in which you already spend money is if it’s going absurdly over budget. So dump it because of their unethical behavior so that one doesn’t encourage more low ball estimates- which is lying to congress and American public- and should have consequences.
Nonsense. If you make a mistake in your planning – yes, even central planners can make mistakes – there’s no sense in throwing good money after bad.
Jeff Foust is on the the John Bachelor radio show right now.
Didn’t know where else to put that.
OK, it was a short segment, but Jeff Foust and David Livingstone were discussing Dragon, Cygnus, and commercial crew.
Isn’t this the stand Elon announced he was going to use for Raptor testing a couple months ago?
If so, we might want to reconsider tghe torches abnd pitchforks at this time.
The irony will be when SpaceX starts using it.
Why would spacex use the stennis stand, when they already have a test stand of their own which serves their purposes? It makes no sense.
Ask them. http://www.spacenews.com/article/launch-report/37859spacex-could-begin-testing-methane-fueled-engine-at-stennis-next-year
SpaceX is slated to use the E-2 test stand. The test stand under construction is the A-3 test stand.
I never said otherwise.
It’s just typical of left wing politicians to waste taxpayers money like that.
This is why there is a Tea Party.
Pork is bipartisan.. like the space program.. but I repeat myself.
It’s bipartisan, when it’s not nationally important. Pork has no wings. That’s why pigs don’t fly.
From the article:
“Its funding survived thanks to Mississippi Republican senators led by Roger Wicker, who crafted a provision requiring the agency to complete the work.”
From here: http://thatsmycongress.com/senate/senWickerMS113.html
“Sen. Wicker’s Liberal Action Score: 0
The Liberal Action Score is calculated by compiling a series of measured liberal actions (both roll call voting and bill cosponsorship) in the 113th Congress and comparing Roger Wicker’s behavior against a liberal standard”
He may not be as conservative as you like, but he’s not generally considered a liberal.
Sounds like he’s just a hypocrite, how does pork fit in with sensible government spending , or small government?
“Obama’s request to kill Constellation was included in a 2010 bill approved by Congress. At the time, NASA already had spent $292 million on the A-3 test stand, and it needed another $57 million to finish the work, according to a February report by the agency’s inspector general, Paul Martin.”
It seems if already spent 292 million, and it’s not over budget [no idea if it was] you shouldn’t
cancel it.
You manage your budget on the planning of what you going to do. Don’t start things, spend pay for 1/2 or more of it, then cancel.
So main reason to cancel something in which you already spend money is if it’s going absurdly over budget. So dump it because of their unethical behavior so that one doesn’t encourage more low ball estimates- which is lying to congress and American public- and should have consequences.
Nonsense. If you make a mistake in your planning – yes, even central planners can make mistakes – there’s no sense in throwing good money after bad.
Jeff Foust is on the the John Bachelor radio show right now.
Didn’t know where else to put that.
OK, it was a short segment, but Jeff Foust and David Livingstone were discussing Dragon, Cygnus, and commercial crew.
Isn’t this the stand Elon announced he was going to use for Raptor testing a couple months ago?
If so, we might want to reconsider tghe torches abnd pitchforks at this time.
Nah, that was E-2, this is A-2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Stennis_Space_Center#A-1_and_A-2_Test_stands
Not that I’d be surprised if SpaceX was drooling over the availability of the A-2 stand.
But the pork problem wasn’t the old A-2 stand, it’s the new A-3 stand.
.. test ..
The comment section is behaving crazy again.
What makes this sad is there is a vacuum stand at Plumbrook that needed $20 million to get fixed up but the
politics to fix that one are bad.
The same one that was considered for testing Vinci, but that then lost out to a new test stand at Lampoldshausen, Germany?