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NASA looks to Japan for shuttle successor
NASA has begun unofficial talks with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on buying the H-2 Transfer Vehicle , an unmanned cargo-transfer spacecraft developed in Japan, as the successor to its space shuttles, ...
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This is a little like the Japanese being forced by circumstances to import chrysanthemums for an imperial coronation. It might make sense on paper, but it just doesn't feel right.
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How have we (U.S., NASA) managed to lose our edge? I tend to want to blame affirmative action policies but I am not sure this is the whole story. Somebody who knows please explain.
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How have we (U.S. and NASA) managed to lose our edge? I tend to want to blame affirmative actions policies but this is not the whole story. Somebody who knows, please explain.
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The generation of scientists "who had the edge" came from Europe, they were the German rocket scientists. It was "the post-WW II brain drain". Now European scientists stay at home so who does the technological thinking? From where do we find scientists and technicians who are competent? I suppose south and east Asia the likely answer this time. |
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The HTV is not a shuttle replacement. That's just sensationalist reporting. JAXA has been working on HTV for years now, even before the end of the Shuttle Program was scheduled. NASA's real replacement for the Shuttle is the Constellation Program, which will provide services to ISS, and take us back to the moon.
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It is a Shuttle for servicing the ISS albeit an unmanned one. The Constellation Program is in no way a Shuttle replacement but rather a system designed specifically for getting beyond Earth orbit. One is targeted at the Moon and Mars, the other at shuttling cargo to the ISS. |
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