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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:1.65in center 296.1pt'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>NASA
Problems and Solutions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;tab-stops:1.65in center 296.1pt'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Should the NASA Administrator Resign? <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="#Bio"><b
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
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normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>January
2012 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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color:windowtext;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>On more than one occasion NASA
Administrator Charles Bolden has stated that he is frustrated...and after
taking the NASA top position said, </span><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:
EN'>“I really don’t care what signal it sends. I did not want this
job.” <span class=GramE>(Ref <a
href="http://www.spacenews.com/civil/bolden-talk-yields-insights-more-personal-than-political.html"><span
style='mso-ansi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:14.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>http://www.spacenews.com/civil/bolden-talk-yields-insights-more-personal-than-political.html</span></a>).</span>
</span><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-ansi-language:EN'>I met Charlie when he first came to NASA JSC as an
astronaut candidate. He is an A-number one nice guy and tries to please
everyone and a NASA administrator can’t be that guy. At a recent telecom
he again said that his goal was to have a human mission to Mars. I challenged
him that goal is impossible with the heavy lift Space Launch System (SLS) vehicles.
There are too many negative to proceed with the development of Apollo class heavy
lift launch vehicles. </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-latin;color:windowtext'>The “Austere Human Missions to Mars”
presented by NASA at the AIAA Space 2009 conference requires nearly 2000 T be
delivered to LEO to support a four member crew Mars mission. It would require <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u>15 launches</u></b> of the <u>upgraded</u>
SLS to support the four year Mars mission with a launch cost of a <u>minimum</u>
$30 billion <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u>plus</u></b> the cost of
the payloads. If one launch vehicle or payload fails the entire mission could
be lost. With no cargo return capability on the Orion crew module there is no
commercial value for this Mars transportation system. Reusable launchers with
payload return capability and space based transportation vehicles with cargo
bays commercial applications are the only affordable and viable option for
human Mars missions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.25pt;
margin-left:0in'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
color:windowtext'>The SLS is a political vehicle designed to try to save an
industry that supports NASA launch operations. The economic environment of the
21<sup>st</sup> century dictates that we abandon government operated launch
vehicles. Like the U.S. auto industry…we change or we shut down. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.25pt;
margin-left:0in'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
color:windowtext'>Charlie…by resigning you sent the message that we are
on the wrong path!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
color:windowtext'>Don A. Nelson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:windowtext'>Aerospace Consultant…Retired NASA Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:windowtext;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><a href="#China"><span
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mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin'>Commercial Space
Shuttle</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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margin-left:0in'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
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margin-left:0in'><a name=Letters><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
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mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>LETTERS of CONCERN<span
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>July
14, 2011<br>
NASA Headquarters<br>
Office of the Administrator<br>
Gen. Charles F. Bolden Jr. <br>
<br>
Subject: Resignation<br>
<br>
Charlie<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
There is an old saying around NASA, “Tell the Administrator what you want
him to hear…not what he needs to know.” As a retired NASA engineer
I’m breaking this unwritten rule and telling you that it is in the best
interest of NASA and the President that you resign. You have ignored, or
failed to recognize vital issues which now have NASA on a course of certain
failure.<br>
<br>
Under your administration you failed to replace the management <<a
href="http://nasaproblems.com/#Impasse"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>http://nasaproblems.com/#Impasse</span></a><span
class=GramE>> of</span> the ill-conceived Constellation Program.
These same managers have once again reintroduced an unaffordable and
unsafe Apollo era expendable crew module and heavy lift launch
vehicle…the Space Launch System (SLS) Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV).
This obsolete space transportation system with its limited 21 day mission
duration provides no foundation for the advancement of human deep space
transportation and exploration. The mission site time is limited to a few days
and without an MPCV airlock and robotic arm the crew EVA activity is an extreme
risk environment. NASA has not identified any SLS/MPCV mission that cannot be
performed with robotic spacecraft at a fraction of the cost. As you are aware
the SLS/MPCV mission duration fall 609 days short of being able to conduct a
humans Mars mission. As you should be aware, the manufacturing cost of the
expendable SLS/MPCV components and the mission/operation cost for two missions
per year could exceed $7 billion. <br>
<br>
Your administration has misled the President and Congress about the
safety of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) <<a
href="http://nasaproblems.com/#CrewModule"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>http://nasaproblems.com/#CrewModule</span></a><span
class=GramE>> .</span> Recent published statements attributed to NASA
reporting that this MPCV crew module will be ten times safer during launch and <u>entry</u>
than the space shuttle are in error. While the planned crew escape tower <u>may</u>
provide some improvement in crew safety during launch, there is no crew safety
improvement during the re-entry phase of flight. For crew modules it is the
re-entry phase of flight that is the most dangerous. Two Soyuz crews have
been lost during re-entry and two near fatal re-entries have recently occurred.
Unlike the Soyuz the MPCV is forced to make <span class=GramE>water landings
which places</span> the crew and recovery team in even further jeopardy.
Engineers at Lockheed Martin recognized the safety problems with crew modules
and proposed a lifting body reusable crew vehicle. However NASA management
rejected their vehicle and <u>directed</u> that they develop an Apollo era crew
module…this is a death sentence for some future crew if the Orion MPCV is
ever flown. Under your administration, where is “<b><i>crew safety is our
number one priority</i></b>?” <br>
<br>
The 2010 congressional NASA Authorization Act has a provision approving the use
of commercially developed vehicles. However, your administration ignored
numerous requests to evaluate a commercial space shuttle <<a
href="http://nasaproblems.com/#CSS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>http://nasaproblems.com/#CSS</span></a><span
class=GramE>> .</span> It does not take a rocket scientist to know that a
reusable commercial vehicle is more cost effective and safer than the
expendable launch vehicle that you have endorsed. The commercial space shuttle
would provide an orderly transfer of NASA contractors to the private sector,
create a competitive international cargo launcher in its unmanned flight
configuration, and eliminate the costly heavy lift launch vehicle by providing
launch support for space based reusable vehicles. It is the goal of every other
space faring nation to develop a space transportation system using reusable
vehicles. There is evidence that China will have a reusable space shuttle by
2020 <<a href="http://nasaproblems.com/#China"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>http://nasaproblems.com/#China</span></a><span
class=GramE>> .</span> It is the only avenue that can reduce mission cost
and provide safer human space transportation. By ignoring the numerous requests
to evaluate a commercial space shuttle <<a
href="http://nasaproblems.com/#Bet"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>http://nasaproblems.com/#Bet</span></a><span
class=GramE>> you</span> failed to evaluate the space based usable
vehicles. Where is your justification for relegating the only reusable human
transportation system to museums? A FOIA request shows the NASA decommissioning
of the space shuttle has been based solely on conjecture. Continuing on
your course with obsolete Apollo era expendable vehicles is a course for certain
failure. <br>
<br>
Charlie, I know of your deep feeling for NASA and human space flight. Also I
believe your commitment to the President is genuine. As you are aware the
Florida space coast will be a deciding factor in the 2012 presidential
elections. And as you are also aware the NASA technical oversight of the
SLS/MPCV by the Executive Branch offices of the NASA Inspector General and
Office of Science and Technology Policy has been non-existence and the
President will be held accountable for this failure. There is no doubt that the
SLS/MPCV will fail. To prolong the cancellation of this failed effort beyond
the timeframe of adopting the commercial space shuttle will be devastating to
the NASA community and will be a deciding factor in defeating the President in
the 2012 election. Therefore it is in the best interest of NASA and the
President that you acknowledge the SLS/MPCV is a failure and resign as NASA
Administrator.<br>
</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br>
</span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Don</span></i></b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>
<span class=SpellE>Don</span> A. Nelson<br>
Retired NASA Engineer<br>
1407 Moller<br>
Alvin TX 77511<br>
</span><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><br>
Sent by email and NASA internal mail.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>REPLY:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E4E4E4'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:charles.bolden@nasa.gov"
title="charles.bolden@nasa.gov"><span style='mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>Bolden, Charles (HQ-AA000)</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a
href="mailto:danelson@wt.net" title="danelson@wt.net"><span style='mso-ansi-font-size:
10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>Don Nelson</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cc:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a
href="mailto:gnelson@who.eop.gov" title="gnelson@who.eop.gov"><span
style='mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>gnelson@who.eop.gov</span></a>
; <a href="mailto:Danielle_Borrin@ovp.eop.gov"
title="Danielle_Borrin@ovp.eop.gov"><span style='mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>Danielle_Borrin@ovp.eop.gov</span></a> ; <a
href="mailto:charles.bolden@nasa.gov" title="charles.bolden@nasa.gov"><span
style='mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>Bolden, Charles
(HQ-AA000)</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sent:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Thursday, July 14,
2011 12:32 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Subject:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Re: NASA
Administrator Resignation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><br>
<span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Don<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<br>
As I hope you know, I have the utmost respect for your professional
capabilities and competence. While I have no intention of submitting my resignation
as you recommend, I can understand your frustration with the situation in which
we find ourselves and intend to continue to work all day, every day to bring
the nation an affordable and sustainable exploration program that works in
synergy with our science, aeronautics, and technology development efforts.
<br>
<br>
Respectfully<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
<br>
</span><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Charlie B.<br>
</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><br>
</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Charles F. Bolden Jr<span
class=GramE>.</span><br>
Administrator<br>
National Aeronautics and Space Administration<br>
300 E St. SW<br>
Washington, DC 20546-0001<br>
(202) 358-1801</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:0in'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
color:windowtext;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>LLLLLLLL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-themecolor:text2'>Bolden
$20 Bet<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>March 5, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>NASA Headquarters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Office of the Administrator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Attn: Gen. Charles F. Bolden
Jr.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Subject: $20 “Plan
B” Bet <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Charlie,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext'>The
Commercial Space Shuttle is the only option for the “Plan B” manned
spacecraft heavy-lift launch vehicle compromise</span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>.</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>
It solves the launch gap problem, has the least development cost, is
commercially operated, provides the highest level of safety with crew escape
pods, has proven heavy lift capability, provides the only heavy payload return
capability, and has the lowest mission operation cost.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>History will record that NASA
management ignored requests to evaluate the commercial space shuttle as the
lunar heavy lift vehicle before proceeding with their disastrous Ares Orion
launch system. The hand writing is already on the wall that the <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a
href="file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\Don%20Nelson\My%20Documents\Web%20Page\index511.htm#China"><span
style='mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Chinese
space program</span></a></b> will have a reusable space transportation system
and therefore must have a space shuttle. Will history record that it was on
your watch that this nation conceded human space exploration to China?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Gave the attached supporting
data to Mike Coats at JSC, bet you $20 that it will never reach your desk
unless Mike sends it to you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Don<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Don A. Nelson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Nelson Aerospace Consulting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Retried NASA Aerospace
Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-themecolor:
text2'>NASA REPLY</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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exactly;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-font-width:92%'>National Aeronautics and Space Administration</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.9pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.35pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";letter-spacing:-.5pt'>Headquarters</span></b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:.7pt;background:white'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-font-width:93%'>Washington,
DC 20546-0001<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:.7pt;background:white'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>April 1, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:.7pt;background:white'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;letter-spacing:-.45pt'>Space Operations Mission
Directorate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:.7pt;background:white'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:110.15pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.05in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.1pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;letter-spacing:-.5pt'>Mr.
Don A. Nelson <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:110.15pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.05in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.1pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;letter-spacing:-.45pt'>Nelson
Aerospace Consulting <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:110.15pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.05in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.1pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;letter-spacing:-.6pt'>1407
Moller <span class=GramE>Road<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
class=SpellE><span style='letter-spacing:-.25pt'>Alvin,TX</span></span></span></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;letter-spacing:-.25pt'> 77511<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:110.15pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:.05in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.1pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;letter-spacing:-.55pt'>Dear
Mr. Nelson:</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:13.55pt;margin-right:22.1pt;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:4.55pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.2pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;letter-spacing:-.4pt'>Thank
you for your recent letter to our National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) Administrator, Charlie Bolden, proposing that NASA consider developing a
</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;letter-spacing:-.35pt'>Commercial Space
Shuttle as the only Plan B option for a heavy-lift launch vehicle. </span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:windowtext;letter-spacing:-.35pt'>After </span></u></b><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:windowtext;letter-spacing:-.4pt'>discussing your proposal and enclosures
with Mr. Bolden, I have a few observations and </span></u></b><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:windowtext;letter-spacing:-.5pt'>comments to share.</span></u></b><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:13.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:4.3pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.2pt;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;letter-spacing:-.4pt'>Although
NASA does not have a Plan B, we are actively developing the technology, tools,
and </span><span style='font-size: