Comments on: NASA changes its contract arranged for commercial space

By: SBA 8a

SBA 8a — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 01:07:09 +0000

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By: Fred Willett

Fred Willett — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:34:15 +0000

Given the failure of the COTS contract to be cost competative even with shuttle,….
Seriously?
Cost of COTS $3.5B for 6 years.
Shuttle $18B for 6 years.
The figures given at the House hearing were fudged. Max load for shuttle (excluding MPLM)
Minimum load for Commercial AND assuming shuttle only gets to fly twice and not the 3-4 monthly supply missions of commercial resupply.

By: Kelly Starks

Kelly Starks — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:13:24 +0000

> … I think NASA is instead going to find out that doing anything to slow this development will be
> politically very dangerous for them.

I disagree. I think this is in responce to political presure to downsize adn marginalize CCDev. Congres has been adament for years that they did not want CCDeve taken as a serious option for crew carry. Given the failure of the COTS contract to be cost competative even with shuttle, even after getting a lot of cost cuttingadvantages under SAA; its not unreasonable to lookfor a political out to CCDev – and certainly NASA must realize the high political risk to them if they actually flew anyone on CCDev and had any problem.

By: Joe2

Joe2 — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:17:02 +0000

No “deep cuts in NASAs budget” are required to resolve the issue.

The solution is quite simple (and always has been). If the ‘Commercial’ Space Companies do not want the government oversight – Do not accept the government money.

By: Blair Ivey

Blair Ivey — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 03:47:22 +0000

We should let the market work. If people want to abide by the restrictions in a NASA contract, bully for them. If not, there are several private companies that might be interested. If it takes deep cuts in the NASA budget to force them to realize that the days of government-monopolized space flight are coming to an end, then start cutting.