Those of you who are Star Trek fans should know the name of the artist that was with the Next Generation era tv programs – Michael Okuda. Remember those fantastic display panels? They were given the name “Okudagrams” in honor of him.
Anyway, he has his own website and today, I stopped in and found this: Support Constellation.
The current PROPOSED Federal budget for 2011 will basically drop the return to the moon program from NASA’s budget. Instead, while NASA will get additional funding, none of it will go to the Constellation program.
Longtime readers of either of my blogs such as this one or my other one (http://aerospacedreams.blogspot.com/) know that I am not too happy with the Apollo on steroids program. While in principle, I agree with President Obama that private industry should step up and build vehciles that can take our astronauts up to the international space station (such as SpaceX’s proposed Dragon capasule); to simply drop what has been done for Constellation is bad news.
I support the Jupiter Booster plan that NASA engineers have proposed using as much common hardware from the shuttle program as possible for our boosters. I suppot ‘man rating’ the modern Delta and Atlas boosters that we currently are using now.
And when in the future, Virgin Galactic – when they get tired of just doing sub-orbital flights and want to go all the way up into orbit.
Anyway, please visit the Okuda’s website for supporting the Constellation Program.
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Ref. (www.supportconstellation.com)
Those of you who are Star Trek fans should know the name of the artist that was with the Next Generation era tv programs – Michael Okuda. Remember those fantastic display panels? They were given the name “Okudagrams” in honor of him.
Anyway, he has his own website and today, I stopped in and found this: Support Constellation.
The current PROPOSED Federal budget for 2011 will basically drop the return to the moon program from NASA’s budget. Instead, while NASA will get additional funding, none of it will go to the Constellation program.
Longtime readers of either of my blogs such as this one or my other one (http://aerospacedreams.blogspot.com/) know that I am not too happy with the Apollo on steroids program. While in principle, I agree with President Obama that private industry should step up and build vehciles that can take our astronauts up to the international space station (such as SpaceX’s proposed Dragon capasule); to simply drop what has been done for Constellation is bad news.
I support the Jupiter Booster plan that NASA engineers have proposed using as much common hardware from the shuttle program as possible for our boosters. I suppot ‘man rating’ the modern Delta and Atlas boosters that we currently are using now.
And when in the future, Virgin Galactic – when they get tired of just doing sub-orbital flights and want to go all the way up into orbit.
Anyway, please visit the Okuda’s website for supporting the Constellation Program. Also, this is the previous article that I posted on this subject matter here on The Shanks Dimension (http://www.theshanksdimension.com/2010/01/back-stabber-in-chief-no-more-moon-program/).
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Ref. (www.supportconstellation.com)
Tags: CONSTELLATION, International Space Station, NASA, President Obama, Space Exploration, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic
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