NASASpaceFlight.com really gives you and inside look into all the nitty gritty engineering talk going on with the new replacement for the shuttle. The article below doesn't paint a rosy picture on the shuttle's replacement. Plus, the talk is that whoever gets into the White House may not give NASA the money they need in the coming years to really close the gap between the shuttle and its replacement (Ares I).
So what's a good solution that may not involve additional taxpayer dollars? A private US company like SpaceX (started by PayPal founder Elon Musk) can come to the rescue if their rocket passes the test late 2008. A man-rated version of the SpaceX Falcon rocket could bridge this gap without the need to fight US Congress for the bucks. There are other private companies, but SpaceX looks to be the farthest from what I could tell.
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So what's a good solution that may not involve additional taxpayer dollars? A private US company like SpaceX (started by PayPal founder Elon Musk) can come to the rescue if their rocket passes the test late 2008. A man-rated version of the SpaceX Falcon rocket could bridge this gap without the need to fight US Congress for the bucks. There are other private companies, but SpaceX looks to be the farthest from what I could tell.
via NASA SpaceFlight.com on 4/17/08
The Constellation Program is continuing to push through technical and monetary challenges in an attempt to protect the long term schedule. The latest internal workings are currently being implemented into the Initial Operational Capacity (IOC) schedule, which shows the threat of delays range through the entire schedule - from the Ares I-X test flight, all the way through to NASA's return to the moon. Reblogged with MessageDance using Google Reader
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