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#126 Re: Human missions » ISS - Beware the Bear » 2006-10-27 13:00:21
I for one would like to see our relations with Russia warm. Putin just needs to understand that Islamic nuts are the US' enemy now--not Russia. Buy oil from Russia--and threat nations around the Gulf have no money to buy Russian weapons with US petrodollars.
By warming relations--US money goes to soviet oil fields--not to AK-47s our defense dollars must match..
We are paying both sides of the war.
#127 Re: Human missions » Japan Eyes Future Manned Moon Base, Space Shuttle » 2006-10-27 12:57:23
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have announced a 5 billion yen investment to create the new HII-B Rocket.
Japans Mitsibushi Heavy to Invest 5 Billion Yen in Next Generation Rocket
They understand the need to incease the size of LVs.
Too bad folks over here don't get it.
#128 Re: Human missions » Outsourcing the VSE and Mars » 2006-10-27 12:55:45
Is NASA's main purpose to subsidize the least competitive American companies, or to do space exploration?
If I want to buy a new car, then I don't care where in the world it comes from.
Well I do. Infrastructure and a good line of Engineering experience is what is most important--and Griffin means to finally stop the LV hemmorage this country has been facing.
Enough outsourcing.
#129 Re: Human missions » NASA is screwed up. - I have no patience left :-( » 2006-10-27 12:53:24
There is one Ares basher over at nasaspaceflight who really has a sorry attitude.
His name is Jim. I don't for an instant doubt that he is a true rocket engineer--but he is out for Griffins blood and I find it really disgusting. I wonder if it was Oberg.
Griffin has all kinds of enemies:
Space Libertarian frauds
robots only dweebs (Delta II being the biggest LV most of them want)
air-farce "let's put wings on everything' types, etc.
I think Griffin is the best NASA Chief we've had in quite awhile, and I choose to support the man.
#130 Re: Space Policy » George HW Bush dream Verus our Bush Jnr's vision » 2006-10-27 12:49:04
Nothing has been chopped--only put off. When Ares flies you will have from now to doomsday for science missions.
How many probes have we launched in the past 30 years?
Plenty
How many shuttle replacements?
Zero.
Time for the white coats to take the head shot. Engineers have had X-33. X-34, OSP taken down--while we have bomb disposal robots on Mars.
I vote for a 10 year moratorium on probes.
#131 Re: Human missions » Selling out Mars and Science? » 2006-10-27 12:46:15
Spoiled brats--the lot of them.
#132 Re: Human missions » New Russian Spacecraft » 2006-10-27 12:44:59
That is assuming Europe builds them a hydrogen upper stage for R-7 and slits their Ariane 5 throats.
The Russians have used their pretrdollars to try to muscle in EADS. It might actually be cheaper to build Ariane M than to retool for a kero-based Ariane replacement in the Angara range with all the dependancy that will entail.
Indigenous HLLV as the cheaper option.
#133 Re: Space Policy » Chinese Space Program? - What if they get there first » 2006-10-27 12:42:02
Grunts...
#134 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Falcon 1 & Falcon 9 » 2006-10-27 12:41:11
Falcon 9 pix are out there now.
Look out Delta II and Dnepr.
#135 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Un- conventional ways to LEO » 2006-10-27 12:37:55
Howabout we just forget the Rube Goldberg nonsense--and...I don't know...buckle down and build a big simple rocket?
Nah--that will never work. 
#136 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Ares I (CLV) - status » 2006-10-27 12:35:56
It should be able to clear the coast in a hurry--and doesn't have the disposal issues Delta IV has.
And no--that isn't something ATK made up as a selling point.
#137 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Orion (CEV / SM) - status » 2006-10-27 12:34:06
Whatever it takes.
#138 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge » 2006-10-27 12:32:54
I must say I am surprised.
#139 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Docking System » 2006-10-27 12:32:06
I believe the inventor of the Russian androgynous docking system passed away recently.
#140 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Space Elevator news » 2006-10-27 12:31:06
We still need the proper LVs to deploy the craft.
Space elevator--a good payload for Ares Direct
http://www.lulu.com/content/440980
#141 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Altair - Lunar Lander (LSAM) - status » 2006-10-27 12:26:52
Interesting
#142 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Rocket Monopoly - United Launch Alliance » 2006-10-27 12:22:29
Alabama may get the new Airbus tanker contract with Northrup over Boeing, however.
In addition to our new auto plants... 
#143 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Alternatives to the Ares I and Ares V? » 2006-10-27 12:21:10
I would accept the Direct method--but only if Sea Dragon were to follow. The Direct HLLV would launch the craft--and Sea Dragon the big Martian stage.
A two launch Mars mission. The spent sea dragon hull would remain in orbit around Mars as a station module perhaps (on Phobos maybe), and the return craft would come back more slowly with spin/tether gravity increasing to Earth normal g over time. The rugged Sea Dragon hull would be pointed towards the sun while inactive to serve as shielding.
#144 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Ares V (CaLV) - status » 2006-10-27 12:16:43
Over at NASAspaceflight, someone mentioned something along the lines that--with more LH2 mass, sensors might be less likely to give false readings like what caused the Delta IV to fail. Better propellat seating or something to that effect, IIRC.
#145 Re: Interplanetary transportation » The GIANT mistake of the (too small) Orion's Service Module! » 2006-10-27 12:13:55
To sumarize GNCR, all that probes do or ever will do is collect future textbook data...and after school 90% of the public in any nation forgets anything trivial to the average way of life. Machines do build cities, we do.
Mars and the Moon are the best hopes for habitation, certainly for the next century. VSE is short-term ultimately but it will lead the way to longer efforts.
I think you mean robots "don't"
More then that, alot of the really worthwhile science work to be done on the Moon involves getting at inacessable places (on mountains, down rilles, inside rocks, etc) where robots can't go, or at the very least would cost as much or more than humans.
There are also intangibles. An astronaut might happen to feel a need to look a certain way--and not be bound in a committee determining which way a bomb disposal robot goes--forgetting a find right between the wheels that got by them.
#146 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Using the Space Shuttle in some way? » 2006-10-27 12:11:45
Some of the plans for the Buran orbiters were to--at the end of their life--to leave them docked-minus wings, as station modules.
#147 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Relativity drive: The end of wings and wheels? » 2006-10-27 12:10:35
I just find it laughable that people will fall all over themselves to come up with hairbrained schemes--everything BUT building bigger LVs over time.
Less Professor Cavors
And more Brunels
#148 Re: Interplanetary transportation » External Fuel Burning Propulsion » 2006-10-27 12:06:55
I wonder if anyone is doing work with RENE engines.
#149 Re: Interplanetary transportation » A new HLLV essay » 2006-10-27 12:04:25
Yeah, I saw that. HLLVs have been getting more popular over time with some at least.
http://www.directlauncher.com/
http://www.launchcomplexmodels.com/Direct/
http://www.hays.cc/direct/DIRECT_Launch … v1.0.4.pdf
http://www.directlauncher.com/doc/DIREC … v1.0.4.pdf
http://simcosmos.planetaclix.pt/temp/Di … v1.0.4.pdf
#150 Re: Interplanetary transportation » Warp Drive » 2006-10-27 12:02:07
Imagine the scientific strides that can be had by going back in time--starting a new civilization that lasts until the end of the universe. They go back in time again--progress at a greater rate.
Repeat.
After a couple of cycles--good grief!