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New Space Plan Covers All The Bases, Make It Work!

机译:新的空间计划涵盖了所有基础,使其有效!

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Heeding President Bush's call after the Columbia accident for something beyond the space shuttle and International Space Station, NASA finally has a new plan for sending humans beyond Earth orbit to explore beyond Earth orbit to explore the Solar System (see p. 22). Technophiles that we are, we find it reassuring that the plan was unveiled not with the inflated rhetoric of a politician but with the logic of an engineer and the caution of an accountant. As one admiring observer suggested to us, the pieces of this blueprint fit together like the movements of a Swiss watch. Perhaps, but will the American public be able to tell what time it is? NASA's plan, which calls for returning astronaut crews to the lunar surface no sooner than 13 years from now, may be viewed not as "Apollo on steroids," as Administrator Michael D. Griffin insists, but as a slow-motion rerun of glories past. That would be a shame, because an initial review suggests the plan is a reasonable, affordable approach drawn with an eye on the eventual prize (landing a crew on Mars). And it is without the damn-the-torpedoes approach that leads to runaway costs—and, eventually, to programmatic collapse. That's what happened when the administration of President Bush's father took aim at a similar target 15 years ago.
机译:在哥伦比亚号事故发生后,听从布什总统的呼吁,航天飞机和国际空间站以外的事物,美国宇航局终于有了一项新计划,将人类送出地球轨道,以探索地球轨道之外,以探索太阳系(请参阅第22页)。我们是技术爱好者,我们可以放心,该计划的发布不是出于政治家夸张的言论,而是出于工程师的逻辑和会计师的谨慎。正如一位敬业的观察员向我们建议的那样,这份蓝图的各个部分像瑞士手表的机芯一样组合在一起。也许吧,但是美国公众能够知道现在几点了吗?美国宇航局的计划要求从现在起不超过13年将宇航员送回月球表面,可能不像行政长官迈克尔·格里芬(Michael D. Griffin)所坚持的那样,被视为“类固醇的阿波罗”,而是一种荣耀的缓慢再现。真可惜,因为初步审查表明该计划是一种合理的,负担得起的方法,着眼于最终的奖金(让机组人员登上火星)。而且,没有那种该死的鱼雷方法会导致成本失控,并最终导致程序崩溃。 15年前,布什总统父亲的政府将目标对准了类似目标。

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    《Aviation Week & Space Technology》 |2005年第12期|p.70|共1页
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  • 收录信息 美国《工程索引》(EI);
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  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 航空;
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