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"...all these worlds..." is a blog by David Hitt. It covers space exploration, decent science fiction, humor (by its very nature), and whatever else I happen to find cool. (Formerly "You Must Fight The Bear")
Name: David Hitt About Me: Inspiring the next generation of explorers... See my complete profile
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:: Monday, June 30, 2003 ::
You Down With OSP? More criticism of the Orbital Space Plane. Congress says NASA needs a way to end its reliance on the Shuttle. They say NASA needs to be able to have more people on Station. NASA comes back to them with a vehicle that does all that. Congress says they don't understand why NASA needs this vehicle. Huh? And while it would be great fun to go to Mars, designing a craft with the capability to both do that and ferry astronauts up and down to the Station would be ridiculously impractical. As much as I would love to see a Mars craft also, it would still have to be a seperate vehicle. And even if NASA had a mandate (read: funding) to start working on a Mars mission right now, the agency would still need OSP to continue the mission of the Space Station. And I'm not sure about the criticism that the OSP is no good because NASA will run behind deadline with it. Um, how exactly would switching to a more complicated vehicle help? And, yeah, there's all that development work on the X-33. The only problem with the X-33 was, it didn't work. And wasn't going to be finished any earlier than OSP, if ever.
