Comments on: NASA names its astronauts for the first Dragon and CST-100 flights

By: David M. Cook

David M. Cook — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 22:27:51 +0000

In reply to geoffc.

Geoff, you’re not supposed to comment on female astronauts’ hair or appearance! Look at all the static guys got when that Russian gal went into space & the (stupid) reporters could only ask her about her hair.

I prefer to focus on Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, who brought fresh-brewed coffee to the ISS.

THAT’S the kind of space science I can get behind! Plus, she’s very good looking.

(Dang! Now I’m doing it!).

By: geoffc

geoffc — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 21:44:20 +0000

And Sunita Williams has such awesome hair on orbit! Looks like Medusa!

By: mpthompson

mpthompson — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:27:15 +0000

Interesting that SpaceX is intending for the early manned Dragon missions to the ISS to be manned by NASA astronauts only. I wonder if they intend for parallel test flights of Dragon with only SpaceX crew, or they just don’t see the promotional value of having their own crew members worth the cost and expense above what NASA is paying them.

By: Robert Zimmerman

Robert Zimmerman — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:16:23 +0000

In reply to Jim.

You want to eliminate the propaganda? Then you as a voter have got to stop supporting big government operations like NASA. You can’t have one without the other. It is the nature of government and its misuse of power.

Just sayin’.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:19:02 +0000

I love these bits from the blog post announcement:

“our ambitious plan to return space launches to U.S. soil, create good-paying American jobs”

“For as long as I’ve been Administrator, President Obama has made it very clear that returning the launches of American astronauts to American soil is a top priority – and he has persistently supported this initiative in his budget requests to Congress. Had we received everything he asked for, we’d be preparing to send these astronauts to space on commercial carriers as soon as this year.”

“Furthermore, there are real economic benefits to bolstering America’s emerging commercial space market. We have over 350 American companies working across 36 states on our commercial crew initiative. Every dollar we invest in commercial crew is a dollar we invest in ourselves, rather than in the Russian economy.”

Can we please eliminate the propaganda arm of NASA? Why can’t we have a simple announcement about astronauts and not muck it up with political BS?