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#426 Re: Human missions » Nasa Shuttle, ISS Woes & To-Mars » 2005-11-10 14:46:54
My thoughts on the Space tractor:
http://www.spacefellowship.com/Forum/about1510.html
http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php … post598527
#427 Re: Human missions » NASA 2006 Budget » 2005-11-10 14:42:26
Better news.
#428 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Falcon 1 & Falcon 9 » 2005-11-10 14:41:01
Why can't the AltSpacers' seem to do anything besides shoot their mouthes off and drop mockups from airplanes?
Because that's all those blowhards know how to do.
#429 Re: Human missions » RAS says UK should reverse astronaut ban » 2005-11-10 14:39:17
I wonder if Russia could have Japan and China come together on a few things.
#430 Re: Space Policy » Chinese Space Program? - What if they get there first » 2005-11-10 14:38:10
China has a lot of work to do to be able to send and get Taikonauts from the Moon, It must have A heavy lift option...
Agreed.
#431 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge » 2005-11-10 14:36:31
Hire the DC-X team, and tell the alt.space frauds to take a hike.
#432 Re: Interplanetary transportation » XNAV Program » 2005-11-10 14:35:20
Maybe a replacement for GPS, so we can spend money on better things, like HLLV.
#433 Re: Other space advocacy organizations » Nuclearspace hacked? » 2005-11-03 11:04:51
Frankly, I don't know who to believe now. If Wayne is legit, so be it.
Perhaps he could contact the folks at www.up-ship.com and find other pro-nuclear advocates there.
#434 Re: Mars Society International » Zubrin's Vile Ideology - Should He Still Be MS Leader? » 2005-11-03 11:00:35
I think the frontier ethic is exactly what is needed on Mars.
Expansionism is how 'native' people got here anyway--not by staying in Kamchatka, after all. The mammoth was either wiped out by weather or by folks who thought they were in 'harmony' with nature, whatever that means. Cloning technology to bring them back came with the soons of the Mayflower.
The chinese may have been first here, or the Polynesians--so exploration is needed--other wise you stay in your caves and rot. I think we could do worse than having a new America on Mars. There won't be anyone displaced.
#435 Re: Space Policy » Idea - Infiltration » 2005-11-03 10:53:46
I was talking to my mate and he suggested that maybe we could inflitrate lower levels in politics, if we join forces with other space groups, and try to pull some strings. It's a bit absurd but I'm bored.
Just chucking around ideas.
What are your thoughts?
I would put all the money that went to Devon island into private investigators, cameras and hookers. You tell the Senator you catch this:
"Vote for HLLV or your wife gets the pictures."
THAT"S how you get things done.
#436 Re: Human missions » NASA 2006 Budget » 2005-11-03 10:49:26
I personally think we should pull every penny in aid we are giving to Africa and put it towards VSE.
I agree with that 100%
And after that I would have future aid go to Russia, but only if they let us help develop Siberian oil reserves across some Bering Strait Tunnel pipeline, and let the Saudis keep their oil.
#438 Re: Human missions » If you were in charge . . . » 2005-11-03 10:42:39
If I had my way? I would cancel JSF for the time being, and DDX as well. A future President can hold the Air Forces hand.
If I were President, I'd make Pete Worden head of the Air Force, and bust the fighter jocks who run the joint down to privates. The B-52 drivers and other pilots would fly some Project Stormfury missions and ern their pay. Foreign aid money would be suspended for one yr., as would a hunk of missile defense moeny to go into immediate construction of heavy lift. Once that is fielded, I would fly joint Shuttle/HLLV missions for awhile and finish ISS quickly. I would then shut shuttle down and go to production of the stick while flying on Soyuz on the time being.
Once complete, existing NASA budgets should cover the flight rates. The HLLV itself is the hardest sell. Once that is fielded and has the same institutional inertia behind it that STS enjoys now, our ability to move beyond LEO will be unassailable due to political pressure that will support HLLV same as it supports STS.
Once the stick flys, I would shut down one of the EELV lines.
#439 Re: Human missions » Russian Klipper or US CEV - why can we not get it done sooner » 2005-11-02 16:56:06
This will require hydrogen upper stage handling facilities at the new Soyuz pad in Kourou. I wonder how work is proceeding with that.
#440 Re: Human missions » NASA 2006 Budget » 2005-11-02 16:51:38
The senate approved 20 billion in foreign aid. That whole budget should go to NASA for one yr.
#441 Re: Science, Technology, and Astronomy » The Saturn V » 2005-11-02 16:48:48
That's good.
#442 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Rocket Monopoly - United Launch Alliance » 2005-10-28 16:38:20
Musk is sueing them as well.
If you can produce, sue.
I just wish the Air Force would remember we're not in MiG alley anymore.
With DDX, the Navy still thinks we're in Jutland.
I'd rather have older fighters closer to targets than a relative handull of F-35s a state or two over. You don't need stealth to shoot down airliners.
#443 Re: Science, Technology, and Astronomy » Planetary Ring-structure Space Station » 2005-10-28 16:34:41
Here is a nice site:
www.spaceislandgroup.com
#444 Re: Human missions » Post central for information on CEV IV - Before thread #3 melts down » 2005-10-21 15:28:17
#445 Re: Human missions » ESA's Auroua - Humans to Mars 2025-30 - Auroua Program, facts, links, discussion » 2005-10-21 15:27:31
Let them push for Ariane -M and I'll love them.
#446 Re: Human missions » NASA's Moon Mission » 2005-10-21 15:26:40
It appears that Top scientists want Britain to join space mission reversing its long-standing opposition to involvement in space exploration and be part of the next round of missions to the Moon and Mars.
For £150 million a year for 20 to 25 years, Britain could play a full part in international manned flights, they say in a report commissioned by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS).
“In ten to fifteen years’ time, several nations will be involved in human space flight. If major countries are embarked on a return to the Moon and an exploration of Mars, the UK should want to be involved.”
Drilling projects on the Moon and Mars could not be carried out by robots and would need human involvement, the report concluded. Scientific arguments for the projects were now stronger, and the time was ripe.
The The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) chimes in as well on the subject Human Space Exploration.
Better and better.
#447 Re: Single Stage To Orbit » Realistic solutions to the difficulties of SSTO? » 2005-10-21 15:24:44
Something else to go atop The Stick.
#449 Re: Human missions » The Case for a Small CEV » 2005-10-21 15:20:19
#450 Re: Science, Technology, and Astronomy » 40 Years Ago: A Great Comet » 2005-10-21 15:15:16
A year before I was born.