Mr. N. Wayne Hale Jr. Director of Human Spaceflight, Special Aerospace Services NASA Flight Director & Program Manager (ret.)Ms. Patti Grace Smith Aerospace Consultant/Advisor Patti Grace Smith Consulting, L.L.C.Captain Michael Lopez-Alegria USN (ret.) President Commercial Spaceflight FederationDr. Steven H. Collicott Professor, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics College of Engineering, Purdue University
Partnerships to Advance the Business of Space:May 16 2013 10:00 AMhttp://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Hearings&ContentRecord_id=93f78807-737f-4354-9141-e5d728c0ecfe
Wow, I was favorably impressed by Wayne Hale. He made sensible and important points very clearly and articulately.I don't usually have much good to say about Sen. Nelson, but he did a great job today. Do not let it be said he's not a supporter of commercial cargo and crew.
The most singularly vexing problem with space flight is the high cost of getting to low earth orbit. As the noted science fiction writer Robert Heinlein once observed, ‘when you are in earth orbit you are half way to anywhere in the universe’ which accurately reflects the physics of the situation.In my home I have an entire shelf of books populated by volumes of studies and proposals from a multitude of thinkers spread over decades on that subject: how to provide reliable safe space transportation on the cheap. But the technologies of the 1970s, harnessed to a risk adverse government apparatus resulted in system that was only slightly less expensive than those that went before.Poised on the cusp of these new systems, we run the risk of being penny wise and pound foolish as we make the same mistake that doomed the space shuttle to much higher operational cost operations: starving a spacecraft development program in the name of saving a few pennies for today's budget bottom line resulting in the compromised systems that, if they fly at all, will not be cheap enough to enable business in space....the payback from exploration will be enormous for both the country and for all humanity. The SLS and the MPCV should be developed in conjunction with the commercial low earth orbit transportation systems. The commercial systems will enable the deep space exploration initiative in substantial ways..... Cost effective commercial transportation to low earth orbit can make a vital difference in equipping the deep space fleet.I urge the Congress to fully fund these vital activities, both the commercial crew program and the exploration systems.
Quote from: yg1968 on 05/11/2013 03:27 amPartnerships to Advance the Business of Space:May 16 2013 10:00 AMhttp://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Hearings&ContentRecord_id=93f78807-737f-4354-9141-e5d728c0ecfeArchived webcast has been posted. It starts at 45 minutes into it.
Anybody getting the archived webcast to work? If so, which browser?
Quote from: yg1968 on 05/16/2013 04:00 pmQuote from: yg1968 on 05/11/2013 03:27 amPartnerships to Advance the Business of Space:May 16 2013 10:00 AMhttp://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Hearings&ContentRecord_id=93f78807-737f-4354-9141-e5d728c0ecfeArchived webcast has been posted. It starts at 45 minutes into it. Anybody getting the archived webcast to work? If so, which browser?So far, I've only tried a couple of the "click-to-play" ones (Firefox and Chrome) and the video starts to load and then dies (returning to the click-to-play display).
Quote from: psloss on 05/16/2013 11:21 pmAnybody getting the archived webcast to work? If so, which browser?So far, I've only tried a couple of the "click-to-play" ones (Firefox and Chrome) and the video starts to load and then dies (returning to the click-to-play display).I had that issue, but I kept trying and then it worked. Had to reload the player a few times.
Anybody getting the archived webcast to work? If so, which browser?So far, I've only tried a couple of the "click-to-play" ones (Firefox and Chrome) and the video starts to load and then dies (returning to the click-to-play display).