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Solvency – Constellation Affirmative[____] [____] A move to commercial launch services will create thousands of new jobs and high tech innovation. Newt Gingrich and Robert S. Walker, senior fellow at AEI and chairman of the Commission on the Future of the United States Aerospace Industry, 2/12/2010, AEI Online “Obama's Brave Reboot for NASA,” http://www.aei.org/article/101651 The use of commercial launch companies to carry cargo and crews into low earth orbit will be controversial, but it should not be. The launch-vehicle portion of the Constellation program was so far behind schedule that the United States was not going to have independent access for humans into space for at least five years after the shutdown of the shuttle. We were going to rely upon the Russians to deliver our astronaut personnel to orbit. We have long had a cooperative arrangement with the Russians for space transportation but always have possessed our own capability. The use of commercial carriers in the years ahead will preserve that kind of independent American access. Reliance on commercial launch services will provide many other benefits. It will open the doors to more people having the opportunity to go to space. It has the potential of creating thousands of new jobs, largely the kind of high-tech work to which our nation should aspire. In the same way the railroads opened the American West, commercial access can open vast new opportunities in space. All of this new activity will expand the space enterprise, and in doing so, will improve the economic competitiveness of our country. [____] [____] A privatized space sector will allow NASA to focus on other priorities. N. David, freelance writer for helium, 2/7/2010 “The NASA 2011 Budget and the Future of America’s Program”, http://www.helium.com/items/1734055-nasa-2011-budget One encouraging sign is that the commercialization of low Earth orbit is part of the plan. The Space Shuttle fleet will be retired at the end of 2010. Rather than use NASA resources to develop a replacement for the Shuttle, the goal is to have the commercial sector develop the means to reach low Earth orbit. The commercialization of space is long overdue. Private enterprise will do it more efficiently and cost-effectively, and leaving low Earth orbit to the private sector frees up NASA resources to explore deep space. Billions of dollars are allocated to NASA in the 2011 budget and beyond for research and development of new technologies and approaches to space flight. Hopefully, breakthrough technologies will make space flight easier, faster, and more affordable. Solvency – Asteroids Affirmative[____] [____] Obama’s privatization strategy would work just as well for asteroid tracking as it will for launch vehicles. Dana Blankenhorn, contributing editor for SmartPlanet, 2010, “Maybe Obama just wants to save the Earth,” http://www.smartplanet.com/search?q=dana+blankenhorn&tag=mantle_skin;content You’ve already seen the movie,. It was the biggest hit of 1998. Armegeddon, starring Bruce Willis, involved a mission to deflect an asteroid from striking Earth and destroying civilization. It even had a black astronaut, Michael Clarke Duncan as Bear. The plot was not so far-fetched. In 2004 NASA announced the discovery of Apophis, an asteroid 1,050 feet across that could possibly strike Earth in 2029, or maybe 2036, with an impact similar to what wiped out the dinosaurs. Astronomers have since backed off that prediction. But it’s still going to come close, and asteroids do strike planets, big asteroids. Ask a dinosaur the next time you fill up. Or look at the Moon. That crater called Tycho was an asteroid strike 95 million years ago. Russia was so concerned it made moves last year to launch its own mission aimed at shifting Apophis’ orbit. American astronomers fear such a mission may do more harm than good. After the President’s Florida announcement, which calls for relying on private space lift over the near term while boosting our deep space capability for the longer term, the political risk was made evident. Florida would be losing jobs. They have a Senate election coming up. Then, in a panel discussion following the announcement, former NASA chief scientist John Grunfeld, newly appointed deputy director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, started talking about moving asteroids. New asteroids are being discovered every day, dozens of them, he said, by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), launched by NASA last year. Who knows when we might plot one’s orbit and find it intersects with ours? Bill Nye the Science Guy, who is also vice president of the Planetary Society, quickly picked up the theme. It’s tough and risky and dangerous, yes. Then Space.com got its money quote. “You’re saving all of humankind. That’s worthy, isn’t it?” Well, isn’t it? The same technical strategy Obama announced for Mars, bypassing a generation of low Earth orbit launchers that might get us to the Moon in 10 years in favor of systems that might reach deep space in 20, using the savings to create a private space industry, also works for asteroids, and the budget could be accelerated if WISE finds something really dangerous. Solvency – Asteroids Affirmative[____] [____] Privatization allows for innovation that makes the private sector better at finding destructive asteroids. Jospeh N. Pelton, director of the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute at George Washington University, 05/2010, “A new space vision for NASA—And for space entrepreneurs too?”, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265964610000251 With much less invested in a questionable Project Constellation enterprise we can do much more in space astronomy. We can invest more wisely in space science to learn more about the Sun, the Earth and threats from Near Earth Objects. David Thompson, Chairman and CEO of Orbital Sciences said the following in a speech that endorsed the new commercial thrust of the NASA space policies on Nine February 2010: “Let us, the commercial space industry, develop the space taxis we need to get our Astronauts into orbit and to ferry those wanting to go into space to get to where they want to go. We are in danger of falling behind in many critical areas of space unless we shift our priorities” [10]. With a change in priorities we can deploy far more spacecraft needed to address the problems of climate change via better Earth observation systems. We can fund competitions and challenges to spur space entrepreneurs to find cheaper and better ways to send people into space. We can also spur the development of solar power satellites to get clean energy from the sun with greater efficiency. We can deal more effectively with finding and coping with “killer” asteroids and near earth objects. We may even find truly new and visionary ways to get people into space with a minimum of pollution and promote the development of cleaner and faster hypersonic transport to cope with future transportation needs. [____] A flexible path as a result of private sector leadership will be better at protecting Earth from NEOs. Norman Augustine, Chairman of the Review of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee (Augustine Commission), October 2009, “Seeking A Human Spaceflight Program Worthy Of A Great Nation”, October 2009, p. 95 Because the Flexible Path option contained a commercially developed lunar lander descent stage, it was evaluated more highly in Economic Expansion as well. The use of a commercial lander is not fundamental to the execution of the Flexible Path, but is more likely in this strategy. The lunar landing would be later, involve a simpler lander, and follow the development by NASA of the in-space re-startable engine, all of which would make a commercial system more viable in the Flexible Path than in the Moon First strategy. Of the evaluation criteria on which the two strategies score equally, there are some distinctions. Under Human Civilization, both lead to better understanding of human adaptation to space, but the Flexible Path aids in the protection of Earth from near-Earth objects. From the viewpoint of Mission Safety Challenges, the two strategies are also about equal. Operations at the Moon are closer and allow return to the Earth more rapidly, but landing on and launching from a surface is a dynamic environment. In contrast, the Flexible Path missions are less dynamic, but occur farther from Earth. There is no reason to believe that the remaining evaluation criteria favor one or the other strategy for exploration. They have more to do with how the strategy is implemented. For example, either the Moon First or Flexible Path could be the basis for a new or extended international partnerships in space. 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