TGD(ver 1.0) Waste of Time

Hi Al,

I took the liberty of forwarding a copy of your message to Professor
Collins. Here is his reply:

Hi Andy,

Yes, I do have a comment. It's surely true that
Nasa produces lots of reports etc ("Two thirds of
the world is covered in water - the rest is
covered in reports...")

But Goldin certainly knows about this one, because
he is on video-tape saying it will be put on Nasa's
web-site (at Space Frontier, 1999). His assistant
Lori Garver then checked with me about it, but
it wasn't put up. And when I challenged her in
public at the STA in June 2000 she too said it
would be put up - but it's not.

The wider reason for the importance of this is
that it's the most economically valuable report
Nasa ever published - and Goldin does NOT want
the public of the media to read it. I discuss this
at more length in my invited speech to the FAA this
Feb, here:

www.spacefuture.com/archive/the_prospects_for_passenger_space_travel.shtml

Nasa is obligated by law to "...encourage,
to the maximum extent possible, the fullest
commercial use of space" - but it does not.

However, I certainly agree that this is at
least equally the fault of the committee
that supposedly oversees Nasa. They're
asleep at the wheel! (I have a letter on
this in Aviation Week, March 12.)

Best,

Patrick Collins

Best wishes, Andy Nimmo.

Al Globus wrote:

> andy-nimmo wrote:
>
> > You say, "NASA has not yet figured out that space tourism is a
> really
> > good thing." That is in direct contradiction of their report.
>
> NASA produces hundreds, if not thousands, of reports every year. The
> vast majority of them do not become policy. In this particular case,
> only a tiny fraction of people at NASA are aware it exists. I
> seriously
> doubt the administrator has read the executive summary, although I
> might
> be wrong. In any case, promoting space tourism is definitely not NASA
>
> policy, and neither the Congress nor the president has pushed NASA in
> this direction. I think they should. NASA is remarkably (although
> not
> perfectly) responsive to the people who supply their funding.
>
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