Re: Why 13 years?
- From: Joe Strout <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:59:23 -0600
In article <u8a%e.8227$tX3.3014@trndny06>, "Ray" <vze3gz45@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> If moon, mars and beyond is canceled and we get the CEV built, what
> do you see the US doing in space for the next 30 years? Going to the space
> station is the obvious answer, right? But is that it?
Most likely.
> I see just going to a
> space station for the next 30 years as a waist [sic] of money.
Well, so do we all. That doesn't mean NASA won't do it. They have a
clear history of doing things that are a phenomenal waste of money.
> Do you think its possible that any future congresses, senates and presidents
> will say cancel VSE because its not sustainable financially, and then what
> will the US do in space since they know about VSE?
The US government? Or the people? Or the commercial sector? I don't
get what you're asking here.
But no, I doubt VSE will be cancelled; it will just be starved of money,
causing it to take at least twice as long (and cost well over twice as
much) as originally estimated.
> If VSE is seen not to be sustainable in
> the future maybe nasa will be told by a future US government that it has to
> make more use of private industry to make it happen. I just don't don't see
> a future US government saying VSE is canceled, just fly the CEV to the space
> station for the next 30 plus years. That would be pointless. Wouldn't it?
Of course it would. Why does that make you think they wouldn't do it?
Hasn't NASA been doing mostly pointless things for the last 30 years?
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