Re: Transhab Restrospect: NASA's Bubble Burst

[sfdiscuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Amanda Baker)]

Morning, all.

Mark said:

>"Space Friction"
>Houston Press
>http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2000-08-10/feature2.html/page1.html

        I'm reading offline, so I have to rely on what Mark reproduced here:

>: Her first job after she earned her masters from the Yale School of
Architecture
>: in 1990 was working in Tokyo for Kenzo Tange, an architect "so famous," she 
>: says, "most of my classmates thought he was dead." After that, she went
to Berlin to
>: work with Josef Paul Kleiheus and play a part in reshaping the city's
landscape after 
>: the fall of the wall. She never thought of working at NASA. Why would she?
>: They hire scientists and engineers and fighter pilots -- not architects.

        Urm... who 'she'?

>: Lockheed hired her for the Bioplex project, but within months, NASA had
recruited her
>: for a "Tiger Team" charged with developing an inflatable space habitat.
Two years ago, 
>: Adams was unemployed; now she was part of "the sexiest thing in the space
program." 

        Adams who? This all sounds extremely interesting, but I don't know
who we
are talking about :-)

>: NASA staged an end run around the House Science Committee and into the
uncharted 
>: and controversial territory of space commercialization; ... 
>: Washington was just sending a message to NASA: If
>: Transhab is going to be built at all, it will be built with wholly
>: private funds.

        Hmm - all this political warfare looks very strange from this
beknighted isle (I
write in Wales, UK), but then - that's NASA for you...

>: Constance Adams is in her kitchen making coffee late one night..

        Aha! That's presumably, 'she'!!!

        Thanks, as ever, for all the information,

        Yours,

        Amanda Baker

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