Comments on: Coming and going https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/coming-and-going/ Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:50:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Joe https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/coming-and-going/#comment-48887 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:50:56 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=16649#comment-48887 When you don’t do anything anymore you go to museums to reminisce about what you used to do

Sad.

]]> By: Kelly Starks https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/coming-and-going/#comment-48805 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:03:07 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=16649#comment-48805 The US ends its space program and scraps out al it had – adn the space advocates all applaud.

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Kelly Starks https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/coming-and-going/#comment-48804 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:01:38 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=16649#comment-48804 The fact that you even see the three commercial stories as being significant relative to the ending on the shuttle program, and effectively US maned space capability boggles my mind. It’s like on 9-12 says well yeah we loft the towers – but on the plus side theirs opening a new Starbucks a couple blocks over. Switching the shuttle contracts to commercial would be a big plus. Vastly lower cost, and a real potential to fix them, improve them, and expand operations into new markets and activities. CST at best is just a taxi, the X-37C a much better taxi. Dragon at best isn’t a real contender, at worst is a major threat to the US retaining even shards of what it had.

]]> By: Matt https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/coming-and-going/#comment-48734 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:00:16 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=16649#comment-48734 An opinion article on CNN, of all places, seems to get it too – http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/17/opinion/seymour-space/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7

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