Re: Do We Have The Political Will To Support Bush's Moon/Mars Exploration Program?

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:55:15 -0400, Michael Gallagher
<mikejoe7g@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Yes, I've heard that n opresident wants to be the one to go down in
>history to kill NASA. But then maybe no president has found a way to
>spin that into a good thing.
>
>However -- and I'm just thinking this as I type this -- if Mr. Griffin
>carries through on selecting a CEV contractor next March and gets the
>thing on a fast track to development, then by the time of the 2008
>election, we could be very close to putting it in production and begin
>training astronauts in simulators for it. So even if Mr. Bush's
>successor isn't all fired up over Moon and Mars, hopefully he or she
>will want to keep the CEV in production and do SOMETHING with it.
>
>The again, I could be wrong.

It is interesting to note that when NASA and Bush first put forwards
this Moon and beyond plan, then the expected budget increase would be
small, and where this one CEV would be EELV launched.

Naturally, some of us could soon spot issues with that plan. So this
early plan was just a deception.

These days, from my count, then NASA is now wanting all of five new
vehicles. This then creates an issue, when missing any of these five
vehicles then means that the Moon is not easily possible.

The five naturally are...

Earth Launch CEV
Space Based CEV
CLV
SDHLV
Lunar Lander

This is certainly a nice collection, but at $25 to $30 billion to
build it is awfully expensive. The cost to operate this system also
remains to be seen.

Cardman.
.

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