Senate Bill Adds Shuttle Flight, New Shuttle-Derived Vehicle

simonbp writes "The Senate Commerce Committee this morning marked up a compromise NASA Authorization Act that rolls back some of Obama's plans for NASA, while keeping others. The bill adds at least one more shuttle flight, keeps Obama's technology demonstrators and commercial access to ISS (albeit at reduced funding), restores the Orion crew capsule, and replaces the Ares rockets with a Shuttle-Derived 'Space Launch System' for going to the ISS and Beyond, which could be ready as soon as 2015."

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Bruce, YOU are the wrong direction

[DanDD]

Bruce, you've always had a problem dealing with the establishment - HP, GNU, etc. You like to be in the limelight and run your own show. You don't play well with others, especially not on teams. You don't have the right kind of engineering background to comment intelligently on anything NASA does, although any warm blooded primate can fairly criticize the vast ineptitude of congress.

I think perhaps your dislike of congressional bumbling has spread a bit too far in your anti-establishment bashing of NASA. Bathwater analogies are very appropriate in this case. You rightly criticize the stupid directions NASA has been forced down, but your criticism goes a bit overboard here.