Recent content by vadertime

Boing needs to get out of the Starliner businees ASAP after it's spectacular failure to meet expectations after delays and cost overruns. Thank goodness NASA wisely negotiated a fixed price contract. However, the SLS is a whole different white elephant, which is far more expensive, late and way...

Honestly. How is it that the premier space agency in the Universe doesn't have a standard spacesuit. Really? Each spacessuit is custom configured for the manufacturers spacecraft. Maybe NASA should have designed or RFP'd for a standard spacesuit that would work with any spacecraft. Seriously...

Go with the Dragon. Send Starliner back empty.

Cancelling a 450 million dollar project is small compared to Artemis, which is a 3-4 billion per-launch boondoggle. I am all for science and I have worked in technology for 40 years, but we need to be wise with our financial resources. When this project began in the early oughts, the world was a...

So, of course this begs the question: What if NASA cannot accomplish their part of the exercise - building a vehicle to launch the samples into orbit for the Europeans. Think about it. We are not talking about 1 space craft. We are talking about a minimum of two if not more. Something has to...

Delayed again. There should be a song about this.

I am going to propose 2 solutions. NASA will need to figure out costs and timeframes for these options. Option 1: This will consist of 4 main components, possibly more, but here are the main pieces. 1) a mothership that will transport the lander containing the return vehicle and mini-rover and...

i am very curious about this whole situation. We sent the rover up there a few years ago to collect samples in tubes and scatter them over the terrain. Was there not a thorough plan and budget regarding how to retrieve those samples? This sounds like a case of the horse getting out of the barn...

Why do these spacecraft keep blowing up?

Firstly, let me say that I love NASA and have since I was a child. I am approaching Social Security FRA these days. Space exploration, NASA and humans in space has been a life-long love for me. I also worked at Kennedy Space Center for a couple of years right when they retired the space shuttle...

I think "shortened test flight" is a gross embellishment of a failed trial run of Boeing's Space Taxi. It failed to reach the proper orbit. How is this going to work if we have actual astronauts on board and the spacecraft fails to achieve the proper orbit in order to dock with the ISS? They...