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A Space Frontier Foundation White Paper
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Unaffordable and Unsustainable?
Signs of Failure in NASA's Earth-to-orbit Space Transportation Strategy
 July 24, 2006 – Over the past 30 months, NASA has made fundamental errors in its implementation of the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE), errors which can be fixed today but will be fatal if left uncorrected. In particular, NASA has laid out a strategy for Earth-to-orbit transportation that is already showing signs of failure to meet its own stated goals: closing the gap in U.S. human spaceflight, supporting full utilization of the ISS, and enabling affordable and sustainable exploration beyond Earth orbit.
In developing this strategy, NASA has apparently ignored key elements of the White House's Space Exploration Policy and several critical recommendations of the President's Commission on Implementation of the U.S. Space Exploration Policy ("President's Commission"). Instead of planning its exploration transportation in a way that maximizes economic (and national security) benefit, NASA is working with its incumbent contractors to develop a series of government-designed and owned space exploration transportation systems to service ISS as well as explore the Moon.
Click here to download this White Paper as a PDF.
Read the Foundation's press release about this White Paper.
Read more about the Foundation's recommendations to fix NASA's plans on Frontier Files Online. You can also post comments related to the White Paper on Frontier Files Online. |
This White Paper received extensive press coverage. Below is a list of links to various reports on Unaffordable and Unsustainable? Signs of Failure in NASA's Earth-to-orbit Space Transportation Strategy.
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July 24, 2006 – Leonard David of Space.com, in his article NASA Vision Plans Doomed, Space Advocacy Group, reports on the Foundation's current White Paper, Unaffordable and Unsustainable? Signs of Failure in NASA's Earth-to-orbit Space Transportation Strategy.
http://www.space.com/news/060724_cev_needsrevision.html
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July 28, 2006 – SpaceDaily.com: GAO Critical Of NASA, Citing Financial Risks Of CEV.
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/GAO_Critical_Of_NASA_Citing_Financial_Risks_Of_CEV_999.html
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August 28, 2006 – Eric R. Hedman of The Space Review: A drifting, blurring, and dimming Vision.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/690/1
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August 30, 2006 – Foundation Executive Director Jeff Krukin talks about and answers questions relating to "Unaffordable and Unsustainable? Signs of Failure in NASA's Earth-to-orbit Transportation Strategy,"
http://www.thespaceshow.com/detail.asp?q=548
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September 1, 2006 – Mark Carreau of The Houston Chronicle: $8 billion NASA contract ushers in a new age of space exploration amid cost-overrun fears.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4156125.html
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September 1, 2006 – Alan Boyle of MSNBC.com: Lockheed Martin to build future moonship – Team chosen over Northrop Grumman, Boeing for $3.9 billion Orion project.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14594789/ |
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