Augustine panel teleconference

The audio for the Augustine panel's teleconference on Thursday and the supporting documents are posted here.

Matt Wronkiewicz has posted a nice color coded table showing the scoring of the different options: Future of NASA: Final Score - Matt Wronkiewicz's Weblog - Oct.8.09

Robert Block does a nice review of the teleconference (see also his detailed response to a reader's comment) : Last Augustine panel meeting ends in debate over Ares I - Write Stuff/Orlando Sentinel.

The flexible path option is scoring well: 'Deep space' mission is frontrunner in NASA review - New Scientist

Other reviews :
/-- White House Space Panel Downplays Launch Risk - Flame Trench/Florida Today.
/-- Augustine Committee Nears Finish Line, Assigns New Merit to Space Observatory Missions - Space Coalition Blog

Posted 10/09/09 | 01:15:24 by TopSpacer | Filed under: Space policy

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thank you for your work bringing this all together topspace

between obama, bolden, and augustine, the future might be construed as looking bright

Posted by donnie at 10/09/09 01:33:26

Between obama, bolden, augustine the future might be construed as looking like blind ignorance…like can't see the forest for the tress.

Posted by Doug at 10/09/09 22:22:01

"like can't see the forest for the tress.'

I suggest that it is you that can't see the COTS vehicles because of a forest of government funded (E)ELVs that are available for your immediate use.

Obama's people are just as confused as the rest of you people. It's an extremely difficult problem, and they want to get it right. Unless you have been pounding on this problem for decades, you aren't going to get it.

As it turns out, things were going great until Bush stepped in and screwed it all up with VSE, and Griffin stepped in and further obliterated it with his ESAS.

We built a shuttle. It crashed. So we built some EELVs. We built a space station with the shuttle, which is what it was designed for. EELV manufacturers were either unwilling or unable to commercialize their products, so the COTS people stepped it. That makes it twice as sweet. Now all that remains is to service the ISS with the four commercial launch vehicles that we have, and use the ISS in the role that is was intended : International Diplomacy.

Obama and his people know that. The problem is exclusively NASA HSF and VSE. Flexible Path with commercialization and a second generation reusable EELV and COTS derived HLV, and you're straight.

The fundamental question then boils down to SRB or not to SRB, and SSME or not.

Ceres or Bust.

Posted by Top Dog at 10/10/09 10:09:46

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