Space Forum / Space Policy / October 2003

Hi,
Did anyone heard of conclusions about alcantara explosion last
August?
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Although we had a lively thread last spring over the new BATFE rules to
protect us from terrorists bearing model rockets, this article in
Homeland Defense Journal raises the issue once again.
http://www.homelanddefensejournal.com/scoop_dircm.htm

It never fails to amaze me that NASA doesn't actively seek out new
launch vehicles for its payloads. Under current NASA regs, I believe
that SpaceX would have to launch its Falcon rocket 14 times
successfully before NASA could put a payload on it.

October 26, 2003
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/physics/0308078
Enjoy!
Thomas Lee Elifritz

I think you could find this link interesting:
http://www.thequantummachine.com/mounds.php
It shows an striking parallel/perpendicular arrangement of mounds in
Mars. Any idea of what underlying geological mechanism (if any) could

     After reading John Carmack's results with getting the heating of his
catalyst packs sorted out I tried playing with some ideas with regenative
heating of the peroxide and catalyst to improve the decomposition rate.
As I have already ordered the materials needed make a test ...

I suppose this is harder to figure out the larger and more complex any launch
campaign gets, but if you take one of the smaller LEO-capable  boosters
(Taurus, Athena, etc) and assume there's nothing unusual about the payload, how
many people get involved in a launch?  I'm not ...

I have bashed the X-Prize as a silly waste of money and resources
mostly because it doesn't actually advance our greater knowledge of
either manned space exploration or improvements in aeronautical
engineering (just a LEO stunt).  Almost everything that is being

[Please reply in newsgroup as my email is going haywire]
I have tried but have not been able to jog my memory into a
recollection...
I am looking for the name of the area or group from which Jupiter, et al

This probably belongs better somewhere else, but I'm not sure where,
and this group is one I frequent, whose denizens might appreciate
this and run with it, or poke some well needed holes in it. (Please
feel free to crosspost if you know somewhere useful). I've

General Atomic, Convair, and General Dynamics all worked at a small Navy
schoolhouse in Point Loma, part of San Diego.  There, the TRIGA family of
engineered-safe reactors was created by Professor Teller's team, among many
other accomplishments.  The first prototype operated ...

are the chinese being candid about their costs?
http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/10203wna.xml

here is the news release:
http://www.vs.afrl.af.mil/News/98-4.html
Herm
Astropics http://home.att.net/~hermperez

    Now that the Texas republicans have taken gerrymandering to a
whole new dimension, it will be interesting to see what the fallout will
be. On a space related note, Tom "the hammer" DeLay is now the prougd
representative of the Johnson Space Center. The JSC was formerly in the

So, which will happen first:
1) Next NASA Space Shuttle flight
2) Shenzhou 6
3) XPrize contender flies in space