RE: 'NASA Sets its Sights on Nuclear Rocket to Mars

2003-01-18 Thread Robert J. Bradbury
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Thomas Green wrote: Yeesh! and I thought I was a pessimist :-) As far as can NASA do anything useful for $1B and innovate? Get a grip!! NEAR: total mission cost of $200m Pathfinder: total mission cost of $260m Is this unreasonable costs? Inefficient? Seems

'NASA Sets its Sights on Nuclear Rocket to Mars

2003-01-17 Thread Bruce Moomaw
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-nasa17jan17001432,0,689 1652.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dnation Starting this program at this particular time strikes me as absolutely harebrained; but then this administration seems to specialize in the harebrained, particularly in recent

Re: 'NASA Sets its Sights on Nuclear Rocket to Mars

2003-01-17 Thread Robert J. Bradbury
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Bruce Moomaw wrote: Starting this program at this particular time strikes me as absolutely harebrained; but then this administration seems to specialize in the harebrained, particularly in recent months. You will get no argument from me with respect to our harebrained

Re: 'NASA Sets its Sights on Nuclear Rocket to Mars

2003-01-17 Thread Joe Latrell
Greetings, My only fear is that the technology will work (and work quite well) only to be killed of in the great management fiasco called NASA. I know they mean well, but you cannot innovate when you need to show progress reports every week. Joe L. On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 10:45, Robert J.

RE: 'NASA Sets its Sights on Nuclear Rocket to Mars

2003-01-17 Thread Thomas Green
Title: RE: 'NASA Sets its Sights on Nuclear Rocket to Mars Yeesh! and I thought I was a pessimist :-) As far as can NASA do anything useful for $1B and innovate? Get a grip!! NEAR: total mission cost of $200m Pathfinder: total mission cost of $260m Is this unreasonable costs