Saturday, October 23, 2010

Long View

NASA is now looking at starships. Not much money involved, but it'll be interesting to see what comes of this over time.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Fred,

Will it be underfunded, over budget, and behind schedule?

Paul

Frederick Paul Kiesche III said...

Probably underfunded and just generate a lot of PowerPoint presentations before it is killed.

I'm a little surprised at the "news" over the JWST. First, it is a long-standing "tradition" in certain circles at NASA to play the game of starting a project, underasking, then assuming it won't be killed because it is too big to fail. Second, people were saying this two or three or more years ago. Doesn't anybody remember that?

How are you doing? Want a big pile of RQ stuff in exchange for piles of gold? :)