{"id":4264,"date":"2013-09-02T05:06:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T05:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4264"},"modified":"2013-09-02T15:35:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T15:35:36","slug":"space-policy-roundup-sept-1-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4264","title":{"rendered":"Space policy roundup &#8211; Sept.1.13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Legendary&#8221; Chris Kraft,\u00a0 the first NASA manned spaceflight director, lays into the SLS mess again: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/nation-world\/article\/Sunday-conversation-NASA-veteran-Chris-Kraft-4778332.php?cmpid=btfpm&amp;t=c0fa622d720edf9b03\" target=\"_d\">Sunday conversation: NASA veteran Chris Kraft upfront with criticism &#8211; Houston Chronicle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A sampling of his comments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The problem with the SLS is that it&#8217;s so big that makes it very expensive. It&#8217;s very expensive to design, it&#8217;s very expensive to develop. When they actually begin to develop it, the budget is going to go haywire.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Then there are the operating costs of that beast, which will eat NASA alive if they get there. They&#8217;re not going to be able to fly it more than once a year, if that, because they don&#8217;t have the budget to do it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Russian rockets achieve high reliability and cost-effectiveness with a high flight rate. &#8220;And that&#8217;s something the SLS will never have. Never. Because you can&#8217;t afford to launch it that many times.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s nothing magic about the SLS payload capability. You will eventually need to put far more than that into space anyway so learn to use multiple launches now. NASA needs &#8220;an assembly capability, a fuel depot capability and the capability to have people operating there sort of as a Cape Canaveral in the sky.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are all common sense remarks that many critics of the SLS\/Orion program have been saying since it was hatched in 2010 by a cabal of Congresspersons with NASA centers and\/or major NASA contractors in their states (i.e. the only people in Congress who pay attention to space policy). Unfortunately, the program remains a gigantic money-burning fiasco hidden in plain sight because the MSM can&#8217;t judge a technical issue like space launch and so few high profile space luminaries point out what a bare-naked boondoggle it is.<\/p>\n<p>More space policy related items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacepolicyonline.com\/news\/space-policy-events-for-the-week-of-september-2-6-2013#.UiOEliBZiwI.twitter\" target=\"_d\">Space Policy Events for the Week of September 2-6, 2013 &#8211; spacepolicyonline.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/01\/us\/new-moon-probe-raises-questions-about-what-to-do-next-in-space.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=1&amp;\" target=\"_d\">New Moon Probe Raises Questions About What to Do Next in Space &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/casey-dreier\/2013\/20130830-nasa-backs-off-from-planetary-exploration-cuts.html\" target=\"_d\">NASA Backs Off From Additional Planetary Cuts in 2013 &#8211; The Planetary Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/behindtheblack.com\/behind-the-black\/points-of-information\/in-an-effort-to-deal-with-their-quality-control-problems-the-russians-plan-to-consolidate-their-space-industries-into-a-single-company-controlled-by-the-government\" target=\"_d\">In an effort to deal with their quality control problems the Russians plan to consolidate their space industries into a single company controlled by the government. &#8211; Behind The Black<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2013\/08\/31\/satellite-images-show-north-korea-expanding-rocket-launch-site-analysts-say\/\" target=\"_d\">Satellite images show North Korea expanding rocket launch site, analysts say &#8211; Fox News<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacenews.com\/article\/military-space\/37021leaked-documents-offer-snapshot-of-nro-activity\" target=\"_d\">Leaked Documents Offer Snapshot of NRO Activity &#8211; SpaceNews.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Scott Pace of GWU talked about space policy on the Space Show yesterday: <a href=\"http:\/\/thespaceshow.wordpress.com\/2013\/09\/01\/dr-scott-pace-sunday-9-1-13\/\" target=\"_d\">Dr. Scott Pace, Sunday, 9-1-13 &#8211; Thespaceshow&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Legendary&#8221; Chris Kraft,\u00a0 the first NASA manned spaceflight director, lays into the SLS mess again: Sunday conversation: NASA veteran Chris Kraft upfront with criticism &#8211; Houston Chronicle A sampling of his comments: &#8220;The problem with the SLS is that it&#8217;s so big that makes it very expensive. It&#8217;s very expensive to design, it&#8217;s very expensive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4264\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Space policy roundup &#8211; Sept.1.13<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-16M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6106,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6106","url_meta":{"origin":4264,"position":0},"title":"Space policy roundup &#8211; Jan.18.14","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Science fiction writer and webcaster\u00a0Doug Turnbull\u00a0writes about the importance of a cost-effective, sustainable human spaceflight program to maintain support for unmanned space exploration:\u00a0Will Robots or Astronauts be the Future of Interplanetary Research? - \u00a0Space.com The famous line from the movie \"The Right Stuff,\" which tells the story of America's early\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Space Policy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Space Policy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6918,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6918","url_meta":{"origin":4264,"position":1},"title":"Space policy roundup &#8211; Mar.16.14","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Dennis Tito is wrong. 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