SeaLaunch Chapter 11, Obama and Kennedy, GUCP again and Ares vs Side Shuttle vs Direct - 2.19

In the news SeaLaunch files for Chapter 11, Obama is being compared to Kenney and GUCP leak checks on Endeavour.

Main topic is Ares vs the side mounted shuttle (plan B) vs DIRECT. Voice your opinion at http://www.spacevidcast.com

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• DIRECT
• Ares
• Constellation
• Plan B
• SeaLaunch
• Chapter 11
• Obama
• Space
• GUCP
• SpaceX
• Spacevidcast

[Alabamon]

I'm sorry but President Obama will never compare to Jack Kennedy. Jack was the right person at the right time. He seen us through when nuclear war was a breath away, his vision of going to the Moon brought us all together even after he was gone.

[quantumG]

The comment at 16:02 is reasonable. Even the most enthusiastic and the most capable of the private space launch companies are balking at the development of a Saturn class vehicle. They've even co-opted "heavy" to mean "not Saturn class" :)

If you were going to try to do it with existing EELVs you'd have to launch your lander in two parts.. and not just ascent and descent stages. This would probably require EVAs to assemble, and that's a no-no.

[A86]

@quantumG - I like both NASA and the private spacers but I agree 100%. Nothing about SpaceX (the only real contender right now for any real flights in this decade in the private space sector) really inspires hope or confidence in me that they'll get to the Moon before 2023. Let alone Mars. Interplanetary travel in a piecemeal fashion is an engineering and logistical no-no. If they aren't willing to make a Saturn-class vehicle then leave interplanetary flight to NASA.

SpaceX can handle LEO.

[monokhem]

@ObamaBiden20082012 Obama increased NASA's budget. He moved money from one space program to another, and the head of NASA is a black scientist.

[GelandnaleG]

12:02pm Tuesday (CST) - Time in Mississippi

[pukeoncops123]

@bobafetthotmail I agree. If anything should get cut, it's military spending.

[bobafetthotmail]

@ObamaBiden20082012 While it is true that cancelled a potential huge money sink where the main objective was not efficiency but pork-barreling as Space Shuttle (sadly) was, NASA budget (17 odd billion $) is shit if compared to the BIG HONKING HUGE defence budget. (650 friggin billion $)

And anyone knows that it is ludicrously oversized. The world's second highest defence budget is China, at around 100 billion $.

[76HabeasCorpus]

@ObamaBiden20082012

Because people are interested in space exploration they are suddenly racist? Grow up. It's because of people like you that race/colour is still a issue! Get over yourself. Yes they may have saved millions but has ANY of it gone to helping those starving kids or homeless people? No, why? because he couldn't care less, it will go/went into the bankers coffers plain and simple. Obama has failed you all on every level. Oh and I'd say the same thing if he was white, epic FAIL!

[Bestmanme08]

Obama got Ted Kennedy help in getting elected! The great book Ted Kennedy:The Early Years at amazon shows this!

[ObamaBiden20082012]

@PANTSDOWN555 you are a racist. As are most of the people here who want to spend untol money on space exploration when there are millions of starving black people back here on earth. Obama 2012!!