DIRECT

Maybe another train wreck (NASA appears to be leaning towards DIRECT/DIRECT++) is necessary before we can finally make the first statement false.

Transterrestrial Musings 2010

The key concept with DIRECT is that only one vehicle has to be developed and paid for.

Transition Team Update - NASA Watch 2009

Put the broad brush away and try practicing what you preach, you may find DIRECT is solution we need to return on the right track.

Proponents of DIRECT Offer Rebuttal to NASA's Analysis - NASA Watch 2009

DIRECT is a neat design/concept but is more of the same.

Proponents of DIRECT Offer Rebuttal to NASA's Analysis - NASA Watch 2009

I doubt it very much, since DIRECT is closer to what Shuttle-C would be today than either Ares I or Ares V. Dfens

Shuttle-C - NASA Watch 2009

On the programmatic level, though, DIRECT is a very new concept.

Transition Team Update - NASA Watch 2009

There are already studies available that show the Shuttle's capability could be achieved with a 2x EELV launch using Orion (when and it it's ready to fly), and of course there are always the possibilities inherent in DIRECT or Shuttle-C.

Candid Comments on the Constellation Program - NASA Watch 2009

Those numbers are probably correct in DIRECT outlays to utility companies by the average household.

Conyers' office reacts to reports of wife's guilty plea 2009

If Kieth's opinion on DIRECT is to be ignored because he's not a spacecraft design engineer, then why assume he knows more than the team advocating this concept?

Transition Team Update - NASA Watch 2009

Like you and many others I think C or DIRECT is the way to go --- but we've got to hope that the Commission II is not just another "rubber stamp" with the argument that it's too late and costly to "change horses in the middle of the stream"!

Liftoff of Atlantis - NASA Watch 2009