[SKRIVA] Apolloastronauter kritiska till Obamas rymdplan

  • From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <sverifandom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:19:17 +0200

Tre befälhavare för apolloexpeditioner, Neil Armstrong (Apollo 11), James 
Lovell (Apollo 13) och Eugene Cernan (Apollo 17) skriver ett öppet brev med 
kritik mot president Obamas planer på att skrota Constellation/Ares-projektet:
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/apr/15/obama-nasa-space-neil-armstrong
 
"Although some of these proposals have merit, the accompanying decision to 
cancel the Constellation programme, its Ares 1 and Ares V rockets, and the 
Orion spacecraft, is devastating.
America's only path to low Earth orbit and the International Space Station will 
now be subject to an agreement with Russia to purchase space on their Soyuz ... 
The availability of a commercial transport to orbit as envisioned in the 
president's proposal cannot be predicted with any certainty, but is likely to 
take substantially longer and be more expensive than we would hope. 
It appears that we will have wasted our current $10bn-plus investment in 
Constellation and, equally importantly, we will have lost the many years 
required to recreate the equivalent of what we will have discarded ... While 
the president's plan envisages humans travelling away from Earth and perhaps 
toward Mars at some time in the future, the lack of developed rockets and 
spacecraft will assure that ability will not be available for many years.
Without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the 
US is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity."
 
Obamas plan är ju att istället för de skrotade programmen använda sig av 
kommersiella projekt, som dock inte ligger så långt framme i utvecklingen.
Och man kan undra om inte de tre astronauterna har en viss poäng i vad de säger.
 
--Ahrvid

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