Comments on: NASA announces bold plan to still exist by 2045 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-announces-bold-plan-to-still-exist-by-2045/ Thu, 14 May 2015 12:47:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Arbitrary https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-announces-bold-plan-to-still-exist-by-2045/#comment-763341 Thu, 14 May 2015 12:47:28 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=34297#comment-763341 In reply to Charles Lurio.

Another version of the story might be that, after Apollo, NASA has aimed at LEO and kind of missed(!) It is much harder than anticipated. The Shuttle and the ISS represent huge efforts to put humans in orbit. Cost, schedule, results were all disappointing. But it was eventually achieved. 6 astronauts have been in space during 15 years. In itself that is useless, but lessons have been learned. Next trip better get someone somewhere, or the public will really have had enough of it.

]]> By: Charles Lurio https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-announces-bold-plan-to-still-exist-by-2045/#comment-762926 Wed, 13 May 2015 19:00:50 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=34297#comment-762926 NASA’s prime mission since Apollo has been to figure out how to continue to exist – it’s been shaped by its environment, one in which spaceflight hasn’t been taken seriously except as a sideshow.

Another three decades of same-old should be easy after four decades of experience.

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