Spacecraft Forum - Where have you been?
Spacecraft Forum - Where have you been?
(OP)
Hello.
Since the Space Shuttles have retired and the ISS is not in the news too much what's happening out there in Spacecraft-land.
I assume there are Space-X types of activities and other military and commercial spacecraft launches?
It's just strange to see this forum very quiet.
I came out of retirement in 2007 to work on Ares I, and then Obama shuts down the program in 2010.
Then it was RIF-time for all the contractors so the government could keep the civil servant employed
but who knows what they were doing other than marching in step waiting for some direction.
IMHO, they are still trying to figure out what they are doing for the future.
Grandpa Dave,
Just curious and retired in Florida
Since the Space Shuttles have retired and the ISS is not in the news too much what's happening out there in Spacecraft-land.
I assume there are Space-X types of activities and other military and commercial spacecraft launches?
It's just strange to see this forum very quiet.
I came out of retirement in 2007 to work on Ares I, and then Obama shuts down the program in 2010.
Then it was RIF-time for all the contractors so the government could keep the civil servant employed
but who knows what they were doing other than marching in step waiting for some direction.
IMHO, they are still trying to figure out what they are doing for the future.
Grandpa Dave,
Just curious and retired in Florida





RE: Spacecraft Forum - Where have you been?
lack of post is a sign of very little work or maybe busy people.
I would have like to finished up on the Atlas & Atlas Centaur. as a career finisher.
Mfgenggear
if it can be built it can be calculated.
if it can be calculated it can be built.
RE: Spacecraft Forum - Where have you been?
It is good to see the Richard Bransons and other private industry efforts to develop launch vehicles to try and tap the billionaire-tourist market; one could hope some real space industry (besides just comsats) develops as a result...but it seems like a long shot from here.
RE: Spacecraft Forum - Where have you been?
But of course Assumption is the "Mother-of-all-Screw-ups". Just because the CCCP no longer exist does not mean
the Russians are good guys now. IMHO they are more evil now than before. Look who’s running Russia now. They are waiting
for President Obama's more flexibility... Whatever he meant by that. But of course the USA will fall from within as my
HS civics teacher told me back in the 1950s and we are rapidly heading there.
RE: Spacecraft Forum - Where have you been?
thousands of USA workers based on Military Contract where now expendable.
Now it appears to me the USA has gotten lax. The perceived threat is gone.
I hope to make it to retirement. which is 5 - 7 years.
I maybe wrong but Japan & Germany also believed the USA would fall easily.
but it was a very bad under estimate.
I look forward to Cabin in the woods.
Mfgenggear
if it can be built it can be calculated.
if it can be calculated it can be built.
RE: Spacecraft Forum - Where have you been?
The big threats are clearly China and North Korea, particularly China, given their aspirations as both a space and naval power.
TTFN
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