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Nasa is claiming they want at least two suppliers for these programs since  
Boeing in the last ten years had bought up the major players in the last really 
 big program. Also NASA said they wanted to spread the wealth as if there is 
any  wealth to spread. Its going to be interesting to see how far this new 
effort  lasts before it is outright killed by the next Adminsistration. This 
country is  approaching 10 trillion dollars in Debt and more and more decent 
paying jobs are  leaving the country I would like to know how they think this 
is 
going to be  payed for. Once I retire from Honeywell Aerospace, sometime in the 
 
next five to ten years my position will not be filled along with a whole  lot 
of other people's positions. I guess ultimately all the space hardware will  
be manufactured in Mexico and in China the software done in India and Wal Mart 
 will end up as the prime contractor. Last of course space crews will be 
filled  by indonesians. 
 
    I really think we are seeing the last gasps of the  manned American Space 
effort. This is something that certain elements wanted to  do since the 
Kennedy day's.  Nixon got the Apollo program killed even  though the last four 
missions were already bought and paid for that was Apollo  18 through 21.  What 
was supposed to kill off the manned effort was the  space shuttle the space 
plane without a destination as was billed on NBC in  1972. Well that did not 
happen that way it ended up going forward. The military  needed something to 
put 
there payloads into orbit this was the only thing that  kept the space shuttle 
alive in the 70's Now  25 years later with two  destroyed shuttles and two dead 
crews I guess the reusable space plane was too  advanced a concept. The X33 
program was outright cancelled that would have  brought new life to the effort. 
Now we have this apollo looking thing from the  60's and this is all they can 
come up with? In the meantime Astronomy is going  to suffer because of all 
the funding drying  up for this new program that  will ultinately go no where. 
In about ten years I would expect everything to  come crashing down including 
the International Space Station. In the next  century I would be looking to 
China and Russia for the really big efforts like  going back to the moon and 
Mars 
and beyond. Until there is some real interest in  doing something by Joe Six 
pack in this country I would not be looking for  anything meaningful 
happening. 
 
As far as special interests are concerned It would not surprise me to find  
out that a lot of Bush family and Chenney associates had something to do with  
this.
 
Clear Skies
Dwight L Bogan
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/2/2006 12:53:02 AM US Mountain Standard Time,  
stan_gorodenski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Since  Boeing-Northrop had extensive experience in space efforts in the 
past, I'm  wondering if this is trickle down favoritism to cronies by 
bush or cheney,  especially since NASA is so tight lipped?
Stan

m24@xxxxxxx  wrote:

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>BUSINESS |  September 1, 2006
>Lockheed Wins Job of Building Next  Spaceship
>By WARREN E. LEARY and LESLIE WAYNE
>The NASA decision  is likely to change the dynamics of the space business, 
setting Lockheed up to  be the dominant player in space  exploration.
>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/business/01nasa.html?ex=1157774400&en=49123
80329fbe28e&ei=5070&emc=eta1
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