NASA Ideas Abandoned Due to Financial Issues–Again
A top space agency official has informed the press that money problems again at NASA may very well force them to abandon its ambitious internal goal of having a new moon spaceship by 2013. Same ol’ story, different scenario. But he also said that plans are steady to test launch astronauts in the first Orion capsule by March of 2015, unless national budget stalemates continue.
A recent meeting this past week in Houston, Texas, may possibly have put a kink in the lunar spaceship planning stage for 2013,moving the “moon date” . But the space official says financial problems are typical of a space program in its early stages, acknowledging the slipped launch target date during the interview about an “internal NASA” report leaked to the Web site, Nasa Watch.
Houston Rep. John Culberson said he was weighing legislation “to overhaul the structure of the space agency responsible for about 20,000 Houston-area jobs. He feels that his proposal would slash NASA headquarters’ bureaucracy, enabling scientists and engineers to rekindle visionary space exploration. Yet just recently NASA met with many other international countries to determine theISS’s future, promising these countries that the U.S. would not pull out due to financial problems—which now is about as up and down as you can get.
AND then we have another example of problem areas with the ISS, such as the ordering of inaccurate models of large, expensive ISS components listed on the Consolidated Launch Manifest for the ISS according to the Nasa Watch. Which have been cancelled and never will be placed on the ISS ever? Hmmm….. There does not seem much to say anymore, other than missions and plans come out of the gate with all kinds of gusto, puttering out to a small poof of dust due to always financial problems—missions launch dates are changed or cancelled, shortcuts are taken, disagreeing goes on in NASA and Congress, this story vs that story, etc. Same old crap to me. I would like to see something come out of NASA that finishes what they say, like the ISS before the board is full of high dollars of ideas that looks like that will not happen anyway.
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