John Logsdon
John Logsdon
John Logsdon is the founder and from 1987–2008 was the Director of the Space Policy Institute at The George Washington University...
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You can't start talking about space until you set an overall policy. Our space relationship gets to a basic question of whether the United States tries to contain an emerging China or engage it.
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It doesn't hurt. The money they provide is very important to the Russians in keeping their capability for human spaceflight active.
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It doesn't hurt, ... The money they provide is very important to the Russians in keeping their capability for human spaceflight active.
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It has several elements to it. One is to say that the people who did Apollo were pretty smart,
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Most recommendations are coming out of the VA.
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My guess is that he'll have some parachutes involved that will slow it down before it lands. It's not such a radical idea.
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With only two crew aboard, there's some limited research taking place. But most of the crew's time is spent basically maintaining the station so a third crew member gives 33 percent more time and most of that time will be spent on research.
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We think the days of going out on New Year's Eve to a big party such as at a hotel have come and gone.
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We'd all been lulled into believing the emperor had clothes on when indeed he was naked. The problems had been there to be seen. All of us close to the program didn't want to see them.
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It's like an upside-down bungee jump. There'll be a few moments to view the Earth and then you come right back down.
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The bill is an affirmation of support. But it's also a challenge to the administration to pony up for the transformational space program it outlined two years ago.
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It's been pretty well coordinated among the centers. It appears to provide for a smooth transition.
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It's a schedule that is as much political as it is technical. It reflects the partners' concern about the shuttle because they've moved the launch of the partners' modules up to the earliest time.
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The fact that it comes at a particularly inopportune moment is unfortunate, but either we are serious about long-term commitments like this or not. Nobody is asking for more money. Apollo was done as a warlike mobilization of national resources and there's no reason to do that now.