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April 14, 2006
NASA Won't Release DART Mission Report
This raises an immediate red flag for me. Why would a NASA not release a mission failure report?? It's a public institution they have no secrets. Then you see where the mission launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base. For those of you that aren't intimately aware of the US space program, Vandenberg is the military version of Cape Canaveral. So you have a mission launched from a military base that suddenly becomes classified...hmmmm...nothing suspicious there. I can't imagine the military potential of autonomous spacecraft. I just don't get the point of doing something like this is broad daylight, did they not think it was going to work or did they suddenly see some potential they hadn't thought of before?? It leaves a lot more questions than answers.
Read more over at Yahoo News.
Posted by ManDrake at April 14, 2006 7:00 PM
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Mandrake "A spacecraft that was designed to rendezvous with a Pentagon satellite without human help." and they do not wish to talk about it. Think about it a space craft that is capable of servicing spy sats, nav sats, comm sats and "other" types of sats without a human on board or a shuttle mission with a huge mission control team knowing everything. This space craft could do anything the Military Space Command had up its sleave and only a hand full of programers in Huntsville would know about it. Note:"DART was managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala." Most of the press hounds stay in Texas now days an leave Alabama out of the loop in reports on the space program. Given NASA training and command systems in Texas is a copy of the orginals in Huntsville, it would be easy to use the Zero G sim pools and Astronaut training facilites to design a robot to do work in Zero-G.
Posted by: Royal at April 15, 2006 9:20 AM