Abbey, krantz, Kraft , Armstrong, Glenn said don't go back to capsules PLUS Others --- Get Replacement before you retire Shuttle!!

Read Abbey 's recommendation in lost in space article in Washington examiner------ USE X37C

But, present leadership in nasa, wh, congress either don't care, or will not listen to Experts!

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Charlie Bolden , Marine Corps test pilot, flew shuttle three times, FEELS COTS capsules are Equivalent to Shuttle capabilities. THIS DOES NOT PASS the SMELL test!! And is DAMAGING this country's critical Space program!

NASA adm , Charlie Bolden flew shuttle three times, OBVIOUSLY understands advantages of Shuttle capabilities over COTS capsules & how lack of shuttle capability is placing this country in danger!

TRYING TO DAMAGE USA National Security!!

AS Abbey indicated in his Washington examiner article, Lost in Space , we need & can have the shuttle like capabilities by modifying the X37.  However, the NASA adm ( a former shuttle cmdr), the potus, & the Congress either do not understand the importance of shuttle like capabilities OR are TRYING to DAMAGE the national security & the economy of this greatest country on Earth.

Below sums up the lack of logic in shuttle retirement!

Myth vs. Reality 

Sunday, April 13, 2014 Myth vs. Reality --Space dollars to Russia!!! 4. Cost of Shuttle Based System is Far Less Than the Constellation System or the Proposed Obama System This claim results from simple arithmetic. At a shuttle cost per mission of 500 million for the round trip transport of 6 astronauts, the per man cost of shuttle transport is 80 million. The system to be developed in the Constellation program or the Obama plan would duplicate the Russian Soyuz system. The Russians are to be paid 50 million per astronaut per trip. When the huge cost to develop a new U S system is added in, the resulting per seat cost would greatly exceed that of the existing shuttle system. Considering the cargo superiority of the shuttle makes the shuttle system even more cost effective, and it is in place now, no interruption, no space dollars spent overseas. Origin and Impetus for the Redirection Six years ago the Bush Administration unilaterally redirected the manned space program to (1) terminate the shuttle system and (2) to recreate the Apollo system, consisting of large boosters and a capsule and parachute crew transport system. If you accept the SAT positions why did NASA opt for the redirection and for and sustain the disassembly of a 200 billion dollar Space Shuttle System? One can only speculate but one reason for the redirection could have been a nostalgic desire within the NASA leadership and the Bush Administration to remake the Apollo experience. A second and perhaps more compelling reason could been a desire within NASA leadership to reclaim the prestige associated with creating a new massive heavy lift vehicle similar to the Apollo Saturn V. . The Obama Administration has basically endorsed the redirection by supporting creation of a new heavy lift vehicle, the return to a capsule and parachute system and allowing the termination of the more advanced shuttle system to continue. Pressure has apparently been put on pro shuttle astronauts to stifle it. Again one can only speculate as to the reason. Certainly any desire within NASA for new heavy lift vehicle would be ongoing.The fact that two presidents have sided with the heavy lift segment of NASA shows the power of this group. On the president's side it one could add - lack of vision, political pressure, and the effects of the anti shuttle propaganda. It makes one wonder if the SAT information reached him. Anti Shuttle Propaganda Part of the shuttle termination initiative has been a deceptive ongoing anti shuttle propaganda campaign by a cadre of " Space Experts"and the then NASA Administrator. The PBS Columbia Documentary is the most extensive example. In it the shuttles are labeled as "worn out, old technology, too risky, too costly, a mistake and not capable of supporting solar system exploration" none of which is true.The initiative has been very effective and after six years the anti shuttle rhetoric has become a media myth. Myth versus Reality Even with the approaching termination of the Public's 200 billion dollar shuttle system the nation still has a choice. Considering the facts above it is clear the reality is the shuttle based system for space exploration is the correct choice both technically and financially. . The press could make the difference. SAT has approached numerous media publications with our message and they have chosen to continue to support the myth. These include PBS, the NY Times ,Flight International, the Orange County Register, NASA News and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. It is my hope that you will read the pro shuttle information noted and will arrange for me to meet with you and your editor for a one hour question and answer session. It is your choice as to time place and agenda. It is vital to the nation that someone of your stature in the press investigates and acts on this information. I have an impressive list of engineer sources (Bob Thompson and three former Chief Engineers for a start) ready to answer any question you might have, people you would be honored, as I am, to associate with and people who are true space experts. By Interviewing these guys you would become the most space shuttle knowledgeable reporter on the planet. Without media support to get our message out the shuttle legacy will probably be similar to that of the Titanic and the Hindenberg, manned space travel will regress fifty years, the Public's money invested in the Space Shuttle System will have been wasted, and America's leadership in space will be forfeited. Allen Richardson SAT Spokesman  Sent from my iPad

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So YOU THINK IT CAN'T HAPPEN -- LOSS of CONTROL of EO

AS Abbey indicated in his Washington examiner article, Lost in Space , we need & can have the shuttle like capabilities by modifying the X37.  However, the NASA adm ( a former shuttle cmdr), the potus, & the Congress either do not understand the importance of shuttle like capabilities OR are TRYING to DAMAGE the national security & the economy of this greatest country on Earth.

Below sums up the lack of logic in shuttle retirement!

Myth vs. Reality 

Sunday, April 13, 2014 Myth vs. Reality --Space dollars to Russia!!! 4. Cost of Shuttle Based System is Far Less Than the Constellation System or the Proposed Obama System This claim results from simple arithmetic. At a shuttle cost per mission of 500 million for the round trip transport of 6 astronauts, the per man cost of shuttle transport is 80 million. The system to be developed in the Constellation program or the Obama plan would duplicate the Russian Soyuz system. The Russians are to be paid 50 million per astronaut per trip. When the huge cost to develop a new U S system is added in, the resulting per seat cost would greatly exceed that of the existing shuttle system. Considering the cargo superiority of the shuttle makes the shuttle system even more cost effective, and it is in place now, no interruption, no space dollars spent overseas. Origin and Impetus for the Redirection Six years ago the Bush Administration unilaterally redirected the manned space program to (1) terminate the shuttle system and (2) to recreate the Apollo system, consisting of large boosters and a capsule and parachute crew transport system. If you accept the SAT positions why did NASA opt for the redirection and for and sustain the disassembly of a 200 billion dollar Space Shuttle System? One can only speculate but one reason for the redirection could have been a nostalgic desire within the NASA leadership and the Bush Administration to remake the Apollo experience. A second and perhaps more compelling reason could been a desire within NASA leadership to reclaim the prestige associated with creating a new massive heavy lift vehicle similar to the Apollo Saturn V. . The Obama Administration has basically endorsed the redirection by supporting creation of a new heavy lift vehicle, the return to a capsule and parachute system and allowing the termination of the more advanced shuttle system to continue. Pressure has apparently been put on pro shuttle astronauts to stifle it. Again one can only speculate as to the reason. Certainly any desire within NASA for new heavy lift vehicle would be ongoing.The fact that two presidents have sided with the heavy lift segment of NASA shows the power of this group. On the president's side it one could add - lack of vision, political pressure, and the effects of the anti shuttle propaganda. It makes one wonder if the SAT information reached him. Anti Shuttle Propaganda Part of the shuttle termination initiative has been a deceptive ongoing anti shuttle propaganda campaign by a cadre of " Space Experts"and the then NASA Administrator. The PBS Columbia Documentary is the most extensive example. In it the shuttles are labeled as "worn out, old technology, too risky, too costly, a mistake and not capable of supporting solar system exploration" none of which is true.The initiative has been very effective and after six years the anti shuttle rhetoric has become a media myth. Myth versus Reality Even with the approaching termination of the Public's 200 billion dollar shuttle system the nation still has a choice. Considering the facts above it is clear the reality is the shuttle based system for space exploration is the correct choice both technically and financially. . The press could make the difference. SAT has approached numerous media publications with our message and they have chosen to continue to support the myth. These include PBS, the NY Times ,Flight International, the Orange County Register, NASA News and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. It is my hope that you will read the pro shuttle information noted and will arrange for me to meet with you and your editor for a one hour question and answer session. It is your choice as to time place and agenda. It is vital to the nation that someone of your stature in the press investigates and acts on this information. I have an impressive list of engineer sources (Bob Thompson and three former Chief Engineers for a start) ready to answer any question you might have, people you would be honored, as I am, to associate with and people who are true space experts. By Interviewing these guys you would become the most space shuttle knowledgeable reporter on the planet. Without media support to get our message out the shuttle legacy will probably be similar to that of the Titanic and the Hindenberg, manned space travel will regress fifty years, the Public's money invested in the Space Shuttle System will have been wasted, and America's leadership in space will be forfeited. Allen Richardson SAT Spokesman  Sent from my iPad

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Paul Purcell July 30 at 11:54am   There is lots of money to be made in space.. This report values the space economy at 330 Billion annually... With the growth of further space based economy in the area's of energy and mining this figure is set to soar to much grander heights!.. The space based economy will grow and grow until the milestone of manufacturing structures in space with material harvested in space is accomplished.. When that happens.. It will be an economic super nova.. Exciting times lay ahead.. http://acuriousguy.blogspot.ca/2015/07/space-economy-now-330bln-us-per-annum.html An article outlining the science, economic drivers and logic to mining in space.. The Technical and Economic Feasibility of Mining the Near-Earth Asteroids http://www.nss.org/settlement/asteroids/sonter.html The economic benefits of mining on the Moon has changed the economics of a voyage to Mars.. A new study released in July of 2015 demonstrates that propellant and material mining on the moon is going to be a big game changer in our space exploration efforts to all destinations including savings of supporting missions in low Earth orbit.. http://www.ibtimes.com.au/nasa-funded-study-finds-lunar-resources-could-cut-space-exploration-cost-10b-year-1456974 Telerobotic equipment on the moon could easily be controlled from the comfort and safety of Earth.. Telerobotic systems have many advantages over robotic systems.. The incorporation of a human operator into the system makes for a very much accelerated pace of scientific investigation.. The Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot (RASSOR) excavator robot is a teleoperated mobility platform with a space regolith excavation capability. http://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/15471 The full NexGen study demonstrating economic gains to mining on the Moon. A commercial lunar base providing propellant in lunar orbit will substantially reduce the cost and risk NASA of sending humans to Mars. The ELA would reduce the number of required Space Launch System (SLS) launches from as many as 12 to a total of only 3, thereby reducing SLS operational risks, and increasing its affordability.. http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/nexgen/Nexgen_Downloads/NexGen_ELA_Report_FINAL.pdf The future of energy! Space based solar power. 8 times more energy per unit area then ground based and no unproductive night time in space.. The power is abundant and available 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days of the year! Attached to this article is a study demonstrating the justified economics for such a venture..Click on "See more for more interesting articles and film.. http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-limitless-power-source-for-the-indefinite-future NASA film free to watch, about their research into space based solar power... The technology was proved feasible! http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/sspnasavideo.htm Asteroids may be a much better place to get the supplies. Early evidence suggests that there are trillions of dollars' worth of minerals and metals buried in asteroids that come close to the Earth. http://science.howstuffworks.com/asteroid-mining.htm Mining asteroids is not just a dream—several enterprising companies are already getting the jump on it. Still, the technological barriers are immense, and we're just beginning to come to grips with the social and political implications of a space-based civilization. http://gizmodo.com/how-asteroid-mining-could-pay-for-our-first-space-colon-1685429089 Excellent concept here.. I have for a few years now thought about power transmission to a craft that uses an engine like the Sabre Engine of the Sklon Space Plane design.. Using the beamed energy to move air through an engine while in a dense atmosphere then in the vacuum of space operate like a rocket using the same beamed energy.. I'm very excited to see how this concept develops! http://escapedynamics.com/ Electrically powered aircraft could get a boost from power beaming technology that is being developed.. The aircraft could be powered by energy generated on the ground that is beamed to the aircraft... Heavier loads could be lofted to an altitude where they then could be launched into space.. The power beamed from the ground reduces the weight of the aircraft and could provide huge quantities of energy to the electrical fan engines.... http://www.airbusgroup.com/int/en/innovation-environment/airbus-e-fan-the-future-of-electric-aircraft.html Laser beams can deliver energy to machines through thin air. This might be a good way to power drone aircraft http://www.economist.com/node/18304136?story_id=18304136&fsrc=rss LaserMotive is a Seattle-based company developing wireless power delivery systems using laser beams to transmit electricity without wires, for applications where wires are either cost prohibitive or physically impractical. http://lasermotive.com/ NASA and the space community need to address the two most limiting factors for long duration space flight.. Exposure to micro gravity and radiation. To do this we need a adequate vessel.. Because the Nautilus-X design relies so heavily on off-the-shelf technology, the Technology Application Assessment Team concluded it could be developed in just over five years (64 months, to be exact) for a relatively modest investment Every dollar invested in space exploration returns more than 12 to the economy... http://www.citizensinspace.org/2012/03/deep-space-from-pilgrim-to-nautilus/ I finished reading a NASA publication in July 2014, titled "NASA Space Technology Roadmaps and Priorities".. In that publication it clearly outlines that the most significant obstacle to long duration human space flight is the exposure to R...adiation... The second largest obstacle is the effects on the human body in a 0 G or micro gravity environment.. What research is being done into these two challenges?.. Is there any thought of putting two space modules coupled by a truss rotating around a center point in orbit?.. I don't think it would be overly expensive to get some valuable data in this way... If we want to go anywhere besides the moon these are the challenges upon us.. Mitigating micro gravity and radiation exposure.. http://www.nap.edu/catalog/13354/nasa-space-technology-roadmaps-and-priorities-restoring-nasas-technological-edge NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts lecture video's.. These video's display the latest technological advances and research that is being currently reviewed at NASA.. The technologies that NASA develops most often are utilized in other area's besides space exploration to better the quality of life for all of us!.. Every dollar invested in NASA returns more than 12 to the economy... http://new.livestream.com/viewnow/NIAC2015 The Von Karmen Lecture series discusses the various technologies that NASA is using to further science and better our lives.. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/lectures.php Inexpensive access to space is what the Skylon Space Plane and it's Sabre Engines promise.. The Sabre Engine that functions as a air breathing engine at lower altitudes then functions as a rocket.. Much hard work and innovations have gone into the design of this vehicle.. I'm anxious to see a prototype.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G50nvEdFVEM Awesome video's! "When We Left the Earth - The NASA Missions"... Incredible footage and excellent narration of NASA's journeys into space from the pioneering days of Mercury to Modern day... Incredible video's! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKXqm-qDHXg Now here, Europa the Jovian moon is a truly worthy space exploration goal... Logical pragmatic steps to addressing the major limiting factors of long duration spaceflight.. Micro gravity and effective radiation shielding.. Acceptance of the fact we need a large capable spacecraft to make such extended journeys.. Perhaps the Nautilus design... Along with the adoption of practical mission forward space hardware design and manufacture... Perhaps standardization of hermetic structures with plug and play equipment architecture made with assembly line efficiency's.. Mission forward design of space structures that re-uses and re-purposes space vessels launched into orbit.. For example a resupply vessel that delivers it's cargo is now used to expand the working space of the ISS or a new space structure.. The service module is re-purposed to provide the same services to the new space structure... Second stage rocket designs made to be used in orbit for alternative functions.. A motto of "If it goes up.. It stays up" Might serve the space exploration agencies well as this thinking makes better use of the resources already invested in building and launching the equipment.. Of course in situ resource utilization will be a mission enabler.. The use of material harvested from space to make space equipment, vehicles and structures should be a key objective.. Practical use of existing resources and commitment to a direction will take us further... Informative video demonstrating how internal heat of Europa interacts with the ice surface. Many scientists believe this is where to look for life in our solar system. Many believe the basic requirements for life have been satisfied here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldzRCO55cUw&feature=digest_fri The Commercial Space Blog: Space Economy Now $330Bln US per Annum Says Report acuriousguy.blogspot.com       Like     Comment     Share               Keep the shuttle flying                   Paul Purcell July 30 at 11:54am   There is lots of money to be made in space.. This report values the space economy at 330 Billion annually... With the growth of further space based economy in the area's of energy and mining this figure is set to soar to much grander heights!.. The space based economy will grow and grow until the milestone of manufacturing structures in space with material harvested in space is accomplished.. When that happens.. It will be an economic super nova.. Exciting times lay ahead.. http://acuriousguy.blogspot.ca/2015/07/space-economy-now-330bln-us-per-annum.html An article outlining the science, economic drivers and logic to mining in space.. The Technical and Economic Feasibility of Mining the Near-Earth Asteroids http://www.nss.org/settlement/asteroids/sonter.html The economic benefits of mining on the Moon has changed the economics of a voyage to Mars.. A new study released in July of 2015 demonstrates that propellant and material mining on the moon is going to be a big game changer in our space exploration efforts to all destinations including savings of supporting missions in low Earth orbit.. http://www.ibtimes.com.au/nasa-funded-study-finds-lunar-resources-could-cut-space-exploration-cost-10b-year-1456974 Telerobotic equipment on the moon could easily be controlled from the comfort and safety of Earth.. Telerobotic systems have many advantages over robotic systems.. The incorporation of a human operator into the system makes for a very much accelerated pace of scientific investigation.. The Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot (RASSOR) excavator robot is a teleoperated mobility platform with a space regolith excavation capability. http://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/15471 The full NexGen study demonstrating economic gains to mining on the Moon. A commercial lunar base providing propellant in lunar orbit will substantially reduce the cost and risk NASA of sending humans to Mars. The ELA would reduce the number of required Space Launch System (SLS) launches from as many as 12 to a total of only 3, thereby reducing SLS operational risks, and increasing its affordability.. http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/nexgen/Nexgen_Downloads/NexGen_ELA_Report_FINAL.pdf The future of energy! Space based solar power. 8 times more energy per unit area then ground based and no unproductive night time in space.. The power is abundant and available 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days of the year! Attached to this article is a study demonstrating the justified economics for such a venture..Click on "See more for more interesting articles and film.. http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-limitless-power-source-for-the-indefinite-future NASA film free to watch, about their research into space based solar power... The technology was proved feasible! http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/sspnasavideo.htm Asteroids may be a much better place to get the supplies. Early evidence suggests that there are trillions of dollars' worth of minerals and metals buried in asteroids that come close to the Earth. http://science.howstuffworks.com/asteroid-mining.htm Mining asteroids is not just a dream—several enterprising companies are already getting the jump on it. Still, the technological barriers are immense, and we're just beginning to come to grips with the social and political implications of a space-based civilization. http://gizmodo.com/how-asteroid-mining-could-pay-for-our-first-space-colon-1685429089 Excellent concept here.. I have for a few years now thought about power transmission to a craft that uses an engine like the Sabre Engine of the Sklon Space Plane design.. Using the beamed energy to move air through an engine while in a dense atmosphere then in the vacuum of space operate like a rocket using the same beamed energy.. I'm very excited to see how this concept develops! http://escapedynamics.com/ Electrically powered aircraft could get a boost from power beaming technology that is being developed.. The aircraft could be powered by energy generated on the ground that is beamed to the aircraft... Heavier loads could be lofted to an altitude where they then could be launched into space.. The power beamed from the ground reduces the weight of the aircraft and could provide huge quantities of energy to the electrical fan engines.... http://www.airbusgroup.com/int/en/innovation-environment/airbus-e-fan-the-future-of-electric-aircraft.html Laser beams can deliver energy to machines through thin air. This might be a good way to power drone aircraft http://www.economist.com/node/18304136?story_id=18304136&fsrc=rss LaserMotive is a Seattle-based company developing wireless power delivery systems using laser beams to transmit electricity without wires, for applications where wires are either cost prohibitive or physically impractical. http://lasermotive.com/ NASA and the space community need to address the two most limiting factors for long duration space flight.. Exposure to micro gravity and radiation. To do this we need a adequate vessel.. Because the Nautilus-X design relies so heavily on off-the-shelf technology, the Technology Application Assessment Team concluded it could be developed in just over five years (64 months, to be exact) for a relatively modest investment Every dollar invested in space exploration returns more than 12 to the economy... http://www.citizensinspace.org/2012/03/deep-space-from-pilgrim-to-nautilus/ I finished reading a NASA publication in July 2014, titled "NASA Space Technology Roadmaps and Priorities".. In that publication it clearly outlines that the most significant obstacle to long duration human space flight is the exposure to R...adiation... The second largest obstacle is the effects on the human body in a 0 G or micro gravity environment.. What research is being done into these two challenges?.. Is there any thought of putting two space modules coupled by a truss rotating around a center point in orbit?.. I don't think it would be overly expensive to get some valuable data in this way... If we want to go anywhere besides the moon these are the challenges upon us.. Mitigating micro gravity and radiation exposure.. http://www.nap.edu/catalog/13354/nasa-space-technology-roadmaps-and-priorities-restoring-nasas-technological-edge NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts lecture video's.. These video's display the latest technological advances and research that is being currently reviewed at NASA.. The technologies that NASA develops most often are utilized in other area's besides space exploration to better the quality of life for all of us!.. Every dollar invested in NASA returns more than 12 to the economy... http://new.livestream.com/viewnow/NIAC2015 The Von Karmen Lecture series discusses the various technologies that NASA is using to further science and better our lives.. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/lectures.php Inexpensive access to space is what the Skylon Space Plane and it's Sabre Engines promise.. The Sabre Engine that functions as a air breathing engine at lower altitudes then functions as a rocket.. Much hard work and innovations have gone into the design of this vehicle.. I'm anxious to see a prototype.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G50nvEdFVEM Awesome video's! "When We Left the Earth - The NASA Missions"... Incredible footage and excellent narration of NASA's journeys into space from the pioneering days of Mercury to Modern day... Incredible video's! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKXqm-qDHXg Now here, Europa the Jovian moon is a truly worthy space exploration goal... Logical pragmatic steps to addressing the major limiting factors of long duration spaceflight.. Micro gravity and effective radiation shielding.. Acceptance of the fact we need a large capable spacecraft to make such extended journeys.. Perhaps the Nautilus design... Along with the adoption of practical mission forward space hardware design and manufacture... Perhaps standardization of hermetic structures with plug and play equipment architecture made with assembly line efficiency's.. Mission forward design of space structures that re-uses and re-purposes space vessels launched into orbit.. For example a resupply vessel that delivers it's cargo is now used to expand the working space of the ISS or a new space structure.. The service module is re-purposed to provide the same services to the new space structure... Second stage rocket designs made to be used in orbit for alternative functions.. A motto of "If it goes up.. It stays up" Might serve the space exploration agencies well as this thinking makes better use of the resources already invested in building and launching the equipment.. Of course in situ resource utilization will be a mission enabler.. The use of material harvested from space to make space equipment, vehicles and structures should be a key objective.. Practical use of existing resources and commitment to a direction will take us further... Informative video demonstrating how internal heat of Europa interacts with the ice surface. Many scientists believe this is where to look for life in our solar system. Many believe the basic requirements for life have been satisfied here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldzRCO55cUw&feature=digest_fri The Commercial Space Blog: Space Economy Now $330Bln US per Annum Says Report acuriousguy.blogspot.com       Like     Comment     Share               View Post     Edit Email Settings           Reply to this email to comment on this post.             This message was sent to bobbygmartin1938@gmail.com. If you don't want to receive these emails from Facebook in the future, please unsubscribe. Facebook, Inc., Attention: Department 415, PO Box 10005, Palo Alto, CA 94303

Fwd: Kazakhstan to pay Russia $20 mln for its cosmonaut space flight in 2016

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Date: July 30, 2015 at 11:39:09 AM CDT
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Subject: FW: Kazakhstan to pay Russia $20 mln for its cosmonaut space flight in 2016

 

Kazakhstan to pay Russia $20 mln for its cosmonaut space flight in 2016

 

July 29, 17:05 UTC+3
Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov will fly on 10-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in September, replacing British singer Sarah Brightman, who backed out of the mission in May

 

© TASS/Mikhail Dzhaparidze

ASTANA, July 29. /TASS/. Kazakhstan will spend $20 million on the space flight of its cosmonaut, the sum will be paid to Russia in 2016, deputy head of Kazakhstan's Aerospace Committee Erkin Shaimagambetov told a news conference on Wednesday.

Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov will fly on 10-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in September, replacing British singer Sarah Brightman, who backed out of the mission in May.

"The payment sum covers all costs the Russian side incurs for ensuring our cosmonaut's flight. The Russian side has requested a sum of 1 billion and 100 million Russian roubles, which is about $20 million according to today's exchange rate," he said.

According to the deputy head of the Kazakh Aerospace Committee, "Kazakhstan has been looking forwards to this event since 2009 when the flight was suspended due to the crisis." The decision on the flight that is to take place this September was made at the level of the heads of state of Kazakhstan and Russia. "The launch will be carried out from the Baikonur cosmodrome on September 2 at 04:30am GMT, and landing is expected at 01:00am GMT on September 12," he added.

President of the National Space Research and Technology Centre of Kazakhstan Zhumabek Zhantayev said for his part that Kazakhstan's cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov during the flight will be engaged in the study of the water condition of the Aral and Caspian seas. According to him, Aimbetov's scientific programme also includes the study of influence of gamma-ray radiation on cosmonauts and a test of the National Nutrition Institute - tasting of eight dishes, including Kazakh national cuisine, together with other ISS crew members

Aidyn Aimbetov, a 42-year-old fighter pilot turned cosmonaut, will take Brightman's seat on the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft when it blasts off to the ISS in September. Aimbetov will join Soyuz commander Sergei Volkov and European Space Agency flight engineer Andreas Mogensen - the first Danish astronaut - for the trip. Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos reported on Monday it had approved the nomination of Aimbetov for the space mission.

Mogensen and Aimbetov will fly up on the Soyuz TMA-18M craft and land 10 days later on the Soyuz TMA-16M capsule, which will reach the end of its service life as an escape pod for the station crew. Volkov will remain in orbit until March, and outgoing space station commander Gennady Padalka will come home with Aimbetov and Mogensen, the Spaceflight Now web portal reported.

The short-duration flight is necessary to swap out Soyuz lifeboats at the space station in support of a nearly year-long expedition underway by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko. The Soyuz capsule with Volkov, Mogensen and Aimbetov will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the departure point for all Russian space crews. Aimbetov will become the third ethnic Kazakh cosmonaut to fly in space since the Central Asian nation was established with the fall of the Soviet Union, and the second to visit the International Space Station. Brightman arranged to fly to the space station under a contract with Space Adventures, a U.S.-based company which sells open seats on Soyuz missions to business tycoons and celebrities.

 

 

Kazakh cosmonaut Aydin Aimbetov to taste national dishes during ISS flight

July 29, 18:15 UTC+3
The cosmonaut will try the Kazakh meat dish, ayran (fermented milk product) and irimshik (dried sour-milk product)

 

ALMA-ATA, July 29. /TASS/. Tasting of Kazakh national food in space will be one of the experiments to be carried out by Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov as part of the national research programme on board the International Space Station (ISS). Deputy chief of Kazakhstan's Aerospace Committee (Kazkosmos) of the Ministry of Investment and Development Erkin Shaimagambetov told a news conference on Wednesday that there will be 10 experiments.

"During the 10-day flight it is planned to conduct a series of experiments in the sphere of space monitoring, the second sphere is biotechnology and biomedicine - a study of the impact of space flight on astronauts and other experiments. The programme also includes physics and technology experiments. A total of about 10 are planned," Shaimagambetov said.

Thus, the Kazakh cosmonaut will monitor the state of the environment in the regions of the Aral and Caspian seas, in particular, he will explore the pollution of the Caspian region with hydrocarbons from production wells. Also, Aimbetov's scientific programme includes the study of the gamma radiation effects on cosmonauts' body.

Aimbetov will taste eight national Kazakh dishes on the order of the National Institute of Nutrition. In particular, the cosmonaut will try the Kazakh meat dish, ayran (fermented milk product) and irimshik (dried sour-milk product). "We will examine how these products will affect his condition and performance on board the ISS," President of the National Centre for Space Research and Technology Zhumabek Zhantaev said at a news conference.

According to the Kazkosmos chief, the work is currently underway for the coordination of the statement of work and the equipment that can be approved for the ISS flight. He said that about 20 experiments were originally proposed for the ISS mission, but "not all of them will be approved" for the flight.

Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos has chosen Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov for the ISS flight instead of the British famous singer Sarah Brightman who abruptly cancelled her plans May 13 to travel to the ISS later this year as a space tourist on a Soyuz flight.

Brightman, 54, who had been training for several months at Russia's Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre outside Moscow, said in a statement that "personal family reasons" led her to postpone her flight to the ISS, but did not elaborate. "We've seen firsthand her dedication to every aspect of her spaceflight training and, to date, has passed all of her training and medical tests," Eric Anderson, chairman of Space Adventures, the company that arranged her flight, said in a statement. "We applaud her determination and we'll continue to support her as she pursues a future spaceflight opportunity."

Aidyn Aimbetov, 42, will take Brightman's seat on the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft when it blasts off to the ISS in September. Aimbetov will join Soyuz commander Sergei Volkov and European Space Agency flight engineer Andreas Mogensen - the first Danish astronaut - for the trip.

Mogensen and Aimbetov will fly up on the Soyuz TMA-18M craft and land 10 days later on the Soyuz TMA-16M capsule, which will reach the end of its service life as an escape pod for the station crew. Volkov will remain in orbit until March, and outgoing space station commander Gennady Padalka will come home with Aimbetov and Mogensen, the Spaceflight Now web portal reported.

The short-duration flight is necessary to swap out Soyuz lifeboats at the space station in support of a nearly year-long expedition underway by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko. The Soyuz capsule with Volkov, Mogensen and Aimbetov will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the departure point for all Russian space crews. Aimbetov will become the third ethnic Kazakh cosmonaut to fly in space since the Central Asian nation was established with the fall of the Soviet Union, and the second to visit the International Space Station. Brightman arranged to fly to the space station under a contract with Space Adventures, a U.S.-based company which sells open seats on Soyuz missions to business tycoons and celebrities.

Aimbetov could fly to the ISS in 2009, but Kazakhstan postponed the mission due to the shortage of funds. The current flight will cost Kazakhstan $20 million.

 

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Fwd: The Sadly Familiar Reason NASA Was Created

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The Sadly Familiar Reason NASA Was Created

Lily Rothman @lilyrothman

July 29, 2015

AP President Dwight Eisenhower and Dr. T. Keith Glennan, the first head of NASA, discuss photos received from the satellite Tires I in Washington on April 1, 1960,

The act that created the space agency was signed on July 29, 1958

NASA may be devoted to exploring the universe, but the agency owes its existence to a far more earthly concern: office politics.

The National Aeronautics and Space Act, which was signed into law on July 29, 1958, was intended to "provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the earth's atmosphere, and for other purposes." One of those other purposes, as TIME noted shortly after the act was signed, was "to overcome the interservice rivalries that had confused the U.S. missile and space programs."

Before NASA, various branches of the military were conducting research into aspects of space exploration like jet propulsion and satellites, and each wanted a key role in the exciting new field. Giving a single branch agency over all space exploration would alienate the others. Moreover, it could signal that the universe was a battleground as much as a place of inquiry. As the NASA act noted, activities in space "should be devoted to peaceful purposes."

With the establishment of an agency specifically dedicated to space—and its counterpoint, the military research agency now known as DARPA, which was created at the same time—that bureaucratic nightmare was thought solved.

Or not. As TIME reported that autumn, NASA's authority to take over peaceful space-centric mission didn't exactly go down easy:

Energetic Dr. T. Keith Glennan, chief of the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration, made his way into the Pentagon office of Army Secretary Wilber Brucker last fortnight with a message: civilian-run NASA, operating under Congressional authority, intended to take over the Army's missile-making Redstone Arsenal, 2,100 scientists from its missile team, the Army-backed Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Los Angeles and various other installations.

Brucker lost no time hustling down to the office of Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles to protest. In Chicago Major General John Medaris, Redstone commander, dramatically got aboard a plane for Washington to fight off NASA capture—while a news leak rallied press reinforcements.

President Eisenhower tried to stop the kerfuffle by saying that he hadn't yet decided who would run the Arsenal and Laboratory in the long run. The Army implied that they'd be fine splitting the difference and giving everything except Redstone to NASA.

A version of that plan is what ended up happening, and before the end of the year NASA's preeminence in American space exploration was settled. And, TIME reported, there was no sign of future in-fighting—at least not that NASA's Glennan would be involved with. "I doubt," he said, "that I can go through this again."

Read more from 1958, here in the TIME Vault: Fight for Space

 

 

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No reason not to continue to fly it !

"I think the United States by giving up the shuttle is making a serious mistake because technologically, it's the most advanced space vehicle in the world, and really there is no reason not to continue to fly it," former Johnson Space Center Director George Abbey said.
In Moscow, Abbey told us NASA should keep flying the shuttle indefinitely and in the meantime build a new space vehicle based on the technology it knows — winged shuttles. He insists the new rockets that NASA has planned are a step backwards.
"Here we've got really the greatest vehicle in the world, and we are giving it up," Abbey said. "Don't start a whole new type of architecture that causes you to go back and start flying capsules, which gave up many years ago."

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X37C ---- could be operational in two years --- got x37b experience

And those in Congress specializing in space are well aware that, had getting independent access to ISS for our nation really been Job #1 for NASA's leadership, then the Administration would have approved Boeing's proposal for the X-37B follow-on, the 5 crew X-37C. We are talking about a dependable spacecraft that can sit in orbit for over a year and NASA said no to making it a crewed vehicle. Why?  Jim Hillhouse of American Space

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/03/x-37b-expanded-capabilities-iss-missions/

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Fwd: Roscosmos to create national manned spaceflight program center

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Russia's Roscosmos to create national manned spaceflight program center

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According to the reports, Roscosmos intends to create a close analogue of the US Lyndon B. Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, which is responsible for NASA manned missions

 

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MOSCOW, July 29. /TASS/. Russia plans to create a national manned spaceflight program center as a result of the reorganization of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) into a state corporation, the Izvestia daily writes on Wednesday. Cosmonaut Sergey Krikalev — first deputy director of the Central Research Institute of Machine Building (TsNIIMash) is considered to be the main contender for the post of the center's head.

The manned spaceflight program center is expected to include, in particular, the cosmonaut training center, the manned space programs department of Roscosmos and a number of units of the RKK Energia Rocket and Space Corporation and TsNIIMash. The newspaper writes that Roscosmos intends to create a close analogue of the US Lyndon B. Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, which is responsible for NASA manned missions.

 

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Roscosmos to Set Up National Manned Spaceflight Center

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Ex-cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev is tapped to be the head of Russia's future national center for manned flights to space, Russian media reported on Wednesday.

 

"I don't want to rush things and I can say something about this new structure only after I am appointed," Sergei Krikalev, the current deputy head of the Central Engineering Research Institute TsNIIMash, told Izvestiya newspaper.

The new Center, to be comprised of the Cosmonaut Training Center, Roscosmos' Manned Spaceflight Center, Energia Space Rocket Corporation and TsNIIMash, will be modeled after the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, which is NASA's  Manned Spacecraft Center, where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control  are conducted.

Yury Lonchakov may be replaced as the head of the Cosmonaut Training Center as part of the ongoing reorganization.

The information was not confirmed by the official Roscosmos spokesman Igor Burenkov, who said that matter had not even been discussed yet.

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