BHO ceded Control of Earth Orbit to China!!!

March 30, 2011 The Honorable Barack H. Obama President of the United States The White House Washington, DC  20500 Subject: Presidential Directive Request for a Commercial Space Shuttle Dear Mr. President: There now are three failed attempts by NASA management to design a replacement vehicle for the space shuttle: Admiral Craig Steidle’s “fly off” concepts, the Ares I Orion, and the Space Launch System and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. All three failures were based on archaic expendable vehicles concepts. Furthermore NASA management has misrepresented the safety of an expendable crew module in which every launch is a “test” flight and the reentry phase with no crew escape system has been a death trap on too many flights.  These obsolete and costly expendable vehicle concepts are the product of the NASA management cultural impasse that has been perpetuated by the incompetent oversight of the Executive Branch offices of the NASA Inspector General and Office of Science and Technology Policy. NASA management’s belligerent refusal to accept that their expendable rocket and crew concepts are unaffordable and unsafe will continue until cancelled by an executive directive. NASA management has steadfastly refused to evaluate the commercial space shuttle. It does not take a rocket scientist to know that a reusable commercial vehicle is more cost effective and safer. Mr. President, the commercial space shuttle is the only option for an affordable 21st century reusable and “space based” transportation system. Only a presidential directive can make this a reality. Don A. Nelson Nelson Aerospace Consulting (retired NASA engineer)   NO REPLY TO THIS LETTER!   LLLLLLLLLLLL