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NASA’s sequestration plan would bring commercial crew to a h

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 5:03 pm
by Skipjack
http://www.spacepolitics.com/2013/02/14 ... -to-a-halt

This is the biggest mistake that NASA has made since the X33 desaster! This is horrible news for anyone who care about human spaceflight! How can they do that? Of course they dont dare to touch the senates favorite pork jobs programme, the SLS! I am so angry, I cant find words!

Re: NASA’s sequestration plan would bring commercial crew to

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:53 pm
by 93143
The sequestration budget amounts are being compared with the President's 2013 Budget Request, which doubles Commercial Crew and cuts SLS/Orion. Of course it looks uneven.

And SLS/Orion does take an additional hit in the ground infrastructure department, which will hurt. The year-over-year cut to CC is relatively tiny, only $17.9M.

Re: NASA’s sequestration plan would bring commercial crew to

Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:43 pm
by Skipjack
I would completely cancel SLS. It is a stupid pointless jobs programme, nothing more. Instead get the funding into commercial crew.