"Rogue" NASA Administrator Angling to Save Ares I Rocket Program from Budget Axe

Move over Hanley, I'm keeping Apollo alive! Should have a Saturn V up in no time!

Good that someone is trying to keep our means to getting in space alive.

There's a difference between the Constellation program and Ares 1.

NASA should be liquidated and its budget allotment should be distributed in a series of cash "X Prizes" to stimulate private corporate development. Virgin Galactic will be putting people in space from now on.

sad Sad SAD!!! Well if NASA wants to get to space then they should tell the Pentagon that space is hiding weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and watch the money roll in.

@Ian1108
I do think that NASA needs to be restructured, but I'm a little wary of completely moving space travel and exploration into the private sector. There wouldn't be incentives for a private company to continue to explore space in the way that NASA does (and I'm not talking about the inefficiency and loss of money). More then likely, the private companies would only pursue activities that would benefit their bottom line.

Being an engineer you would think i would be worried about the diminishing space development. But all i heard about the ares program was that it was a couple of guys in a hut in alabama or something taking years upon years and some stingy subcontractors who have no idea and need to reinvent the wheel. If this thing gets cancelled - so be it and then when space is again the flavor of the month some more engineers will be able to work on it, and hopefully nasa will learn to spread the wealth to other states so they have more support in congress. Whats better for engineers than building one rocket, Building one rocket and cancelling it and building another later on (no im not being sarcastic). 2 rockets to design. woo hoo! And for puritans, we will set foot on mars when we set foot on mars, no sooner or no later. And for the geeks out there please find a way to develop robot rat killing machines as eventually we all get tired of the same old excuse not to go to space given by congressmen 'why should we look for life on other planets when we know theres rats in harlem' this is even more of a pain under this administration where 'its okay not to try' and asking for hand-outs from the government is what we should be aspiring to.

dWb
04/27/10 at 4:30 am

sad Sad SAD!!! Well if NASA wants to get to space then they should tell the Pentagon that space is hiding weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and watch the money roll in.

lool , well that one or tell them there is oil at mars ,u will see the whole pentagon transferring into mars soon enoufh :)

dWb
04/27/10 at 4:30 am

sad Sad SAD!!! Well if NASA wants to get to space then they should tell the Pentagon that space is hiding weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and watch the money roll in.

lool , well that one or tell them there is oil at mars ,u will see the whole pentagon transferring into mars soon enoufh :)

@dWb

hahahahaha, ahhhhhh... the millionth iteration of a WMD joke- were you up all night thinking of that one?

.. wow here's to a president who doomed space exploration and probably America as a super power (whatever we have left after Bush), and to Hanley, who will doom whatever Obama missed.

@Thecornholer sorry fat fingers @thecolonel "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt" Abraham Lincoln... It's funny how people with no intelect can't come up with something to contribute so they try to poke fun at someone else. Well better luck beating your the dog.

The next mode of transportation will be teleportation through hyperspace. According to Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, the square of the electric field and magnetic field produces a space-time curvature that can be used to generate lift and propulsion. The time component is also modified with the electromagnetic fields such that teleportation through wormholes is accompanied by time travel into the past, present or future. After talking with a former NASA astronaut, it is clear that the astronauts have this romantic notion of flying in airplanes and rockets which of course takes much skill and daring. Yet these technologies are obsolete. It would be better if the passenger could just step into a black inky soft space-time tunnel and be teleported to another teleportation mall almost instantaneously. We could teleport spacecraft directly into orbit near Mars or the Moon. The Astronaut also mentioned that the Shuttle rockets are really the best that can be done and there is no room for improvement. From genetic algorithms we know that the mutation of the genes is what provides for new and better solutions to a difficult problem. It is obvious that the Shuttle rockets can be improved by jumping to teleportation as the preferred way of transportion. To get an idea as to what is possible, police have spotted motherships as large as 4 miles in diameter sitting just under the ocean's surface in the Caribbean. These spacecraft use negative energy generators to pull in low density hyperspace energy to create a positive space-time curvature over the hull. This is seen as red light due to the increased wavelength. A compressed space-time is seen on the bottom of the craft viewed as blue light due to the shortening of the curvature. Essentially space-time is a giant spring where the spring is pulling and pushing the craft upwards. The spring constant is very stiff in this dimension, and thus hyperspace energy with 1 meter/second light speed is needed to soften space-time so that it becomes like wavy water. We should put all our resources into developing this type of technology.
Sources:
Good: An Alien Base.
Howe: front cover of An Alien Harvest.
Einstein: gravitational radiation from a rotating rod.
Basiago: new book on teleportation.
Wheeler: gravitational physics, stress-momentum tensor
Former NASA Astronaut talk on NASA budget cuts.
Dr. Kip Thorne: negative energy required to open wormholes.
Billy Meier: Super 8 movies of Beamship teleportation.
Queen's College: General Relativity software.
Maple 12/Mathematica: Einstein's tensor calculations.
Comment: wormhole-propagating gravitational wave teleportation using folding of space-time.
PR Police report: mothership.

Ok, so Obama is a supporter of the Orion capsule. Okay, great. Now, as far as I know, a crew capsule as small as the Orion can't put itself into space...soooo...wouldn't the Ares 1 be a part of that process?! Why is this such a big deal? The Ares 1 and Orion where designed together. The designs are done. We need Ares 1 to launch Orion into space!!

@fletchr I'm not saying some research cannot be done through universities and government grants but they will piggy back on private infrastructure which will benefit everyone involved. Nasa has some nice telescopes but the billions it wastes starting and cancelling projects and the ambition it crushes with bureaucracy is not worth it. If they want something done then offer an incentive to private corporations and they will achieve the same or better results for billions less.