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The rise and fall of a nations lead in the super power race can now a days be related to emerging nations come to dominance. For the same reason that a nation can come to power the inverse can be there down fall.
Just look at the manufacturing industry as a whole for the US. We have Seen nearly every job type outsourced and though this has made the Businesses more profitable to the owners and stock holders. The end result though has been rising unemployment rates, loss of job skills and so much more as it relates to the standard of living.
On the flip side of that if your jobs are unionized, civil serviced or government in form they become protected from this outsourcing to other nations that have lower labor rates.
The Case Against Hubble
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/hubble-04p.html
Snipet:
Aviation Week magazine reports that Hubble's engineers have concluded that the problem can't be solved simply by docking a Deorbit Stage to it- equipped with its own set of super-precise gyros- to precisely stabilize Hubble, or radio precise attitude information from the Stage's gyros to Hubble's own attitude-control system.
The is because the docking fixture- where the Stage must attach itself to Hubble- is fastened to a thin, mildly flexible aluminum bulkhead on Hubble's rear.
No matter how precisely the Stage tries to control its own, and the attached Hubble's attitude, the Telescope will wiggle back and forth - only slightly, but more than enough to ruin the super-precise pointing which Hubble must carry out to make any usable astronomical observations.
The Ansari X Prize hopes to do the same for space tourism. Scaled Composites’ chief engineer, Burt Rutan, believes that eventually passengers could experience a brief space voyage at a cost of $30,000 to $50,000 per person, with prices dropping in the long run to $10,000 to $12,000 each.
It is unclear what effect the popularity of the Ansari X Prize will have on U.S. government space spending.
The Ansari X Prize hopes to do the same for space tourism. Scaled Composites’ chief engineer, Burt Rutan, believes that eventually passengers could experience a brief space voyage at a cost of $30,000 to $50,000 per person, with prices dropping in the long run to $10,000 to $12,000 each.
It is unclear what effect the popularity of the Ansari X Prize will have on U.S. government space spending.
The Ansari X Prize hopes to do the same for space tourism. Scaled Composites’ chief engineer, Burt Rutan, believes that eventually passengers could experience a brief space voyage at a cost of $30,000 to $50,000 per person, with prices dropping in the long run to $10,000 to $12,000 each.
It is unclear what effect the popularity of the Ansari X Prize will have on U.S. government space spending.
The Ansari X Prize hopes to do the same for space tourism. Scaled Composites’ chief engineer, Burt Rutan, believes that eventually passengers could experience a brief space voyage at a cost of $30,000 to $50,000 per person, with prices dropping in the long run to $10,000 to $12,000 each.
It is unclear what effect the popularity of the Ansari X Prize will have on U.S. government space spending.
The Ansari X Prize hopes to do the same for space tourism. Scaled Composites’ chief engineer, Burt Rutan, believes that eventually passengers could experience a brief space voyage at a cost of $30,000 to $50,000 per person, with prices dropping in the long run to $10,000 to $12,000 each.
It is unclear what effect the popularity of the Ansari X Prize will have on U.S. government space spending.
Though the falcon is not part of the competition it is however dealing with the same regulartory laws as a commercial industry.
Falcon rocket rides slow road toward flight
SpaceX deals with hurdles associated
with engine and environmental rules
As I noted elsewhere Falcon rocket rides slow road toward flight SpaceX deals with hurdles associated
with engine and environmental rules
Well not quite a joke but almost the same size.
Falcon rocket rides slow road toward flight
SpaceX deals with hurdles associated
with engine and environmental rules
Falcon rocket rides slow road toward flight
SpaceX deals with hurdles associated
with engine and environmental rules
You mean something other than freeze dried water required to reconstatute and the tube of tooth paste approach to feeding ones selfe.
Probably another reason for low level of research being done with solar sails as well.
Space travel pushes food science forward
Food makers may eventually benefit from imminent food technologies designed to prolong space travel as NASA calls on food scientists to provide food solutions that will enable humans to travel far from Earth – to the Moon or Mars - creating new opportunities for exploration and discovery.
Can I suppose that GCNRevenger that you feel the same way about the ISS if it should come down to keeping it up there and going, after the shuttle is fully retired.
The lowest stable orbit is at 185 km... and the altitude is the easy part. The difficult part is the 7.5 km/s rotational velocity.
He might mean 130 miles, but the savings from only launching 1 person should not be nearly enough to achieve orbit.
Sounds to me that the next xprize level should be just what you have described. The higher the better but to at least achieve orbital status and real re-entry conditions. This would put the fear into Nasa to do better for less.
A study done by Futron corporation on Space tourism and marketing.
http://www.futron.com/spacean....ult.htm
Also on the Futron sire is a study on the Orbital Space Travel & Destinations with Suborbital Space Travel.
Found on the Futron site a history of the X-33 or the OSP project.
Nasa News Release : The Marshall Center has been selected as the site of NASA's Discovery and New Frontiers Program Office.
http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/news/news/rele … 4-214.html
Marshall gets planet probe assignment
Center will manage, send missions for robotic explorations.
http://www.al.com/news....180.xml
What impact will this change of operations for Marshall Center have in the long run?
Bwhite supplied a link to the Futron Corporation Space Transportation Costs: http://www.futron.com/pdf/FutronLaunchCostWP.pdf
Thanks BWhite for the cost link to Space Transportation Costs
of Futron Corporation for the other thread on Rocket Business model for shuttle delta IV atlasV, and others good or bad.
In 20 years, china will be a different nation due to the feeling of democracy and freedoms that will come from individuals that visit free nations. Just look at the changes that have occured to the old soviet block nations and to Russia.
What would it take to place a skylab sized module just for that purpose near the Hubble?
Now here is a real surprise of science being done on the ISS.
Soldering Surprise
There's nothing routine about working in space, as astronaut Mike Fincke found out recently when he did some soldering onboard the International Space Station.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004 … solder.htm
So we actually can build things in space if given the tools. Who would have thought it.