Space Forum / Space Policy / October 2003

Does anyone know the name of the software package(s) that is used by
NASA to simulate the differnt areas of heat that the shuttle
experiences during re-entry?
The software package(s) I mean is the one that engineers use to

According to Spaceflightnow we've got contracts out to build three X-43C's
over the next five years.  I find it odd that they have yet to successfully
fly any variant of the X-43 and yet they are handing out new contracts.  I
remember reading somewhere (spaceref maybe?) that they ...

On October 27, the Suborbital Institute will hold its third Suborbital
Action Day on Capitol Hill. Executives of suborbital spaceflight
companies and interested members of the public will meet with House
and Senate offices to discuss upcoming legislation and regulatory

...is the title of this week's Fox News column, in which I reflect on
NASA's forty-fifth anniversary.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,99508,00.html

Instead of hauling their own fuel for propellent, which adds to its
weight, why not have manned craft launched from massive high-altitude
cannons?  Why not further what the late-Gerald Bull envisioned (see
world.std.com/~jlr/doom/bull.htm) to build a supergun that could

As the reply posts to an earlier post stated there has been no metal
bent for a Mars mission, or even the crew short listed.  Has there
been any preliminary designs on the lander craft, or how it's going to
get to Mars yet, or has the total work done on a Mars mission been

Apart from incidentals, like tape recorder problems and DSN time being
less of a pain, what extra would have been gotten?
Would RCS consumption with the more accurate pointing shorten the
mission?

Why is Peter Diamandis offering $10M prize awarded for the first
private venture to send a man into at least sub-orbital flight? (See:
www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2003-09-02-space-cover_x.htm)
How does this improve on anything already been done by NASA, Russia,

    Tired of griping about NASA administration on newsgroups?  Well
now is your chance to show them how it's done -- take a senior post in
the shuttle program.  NASA has just posted openings for three SE schedule
posts; Manager Space Shuttle Flight Operations, Manager Orbiter Project

I am french and I discover the project galileo at school. I am a
student in Bordeaux.
And I want to know what you think about it, what is at stake with this
project, why some countries agree and other want to make it collapse.

John Schilling's large post reply to another poster in my post about
the first human flight to Mars pointed out that NASA can't now build
working spacecraft, and a lot of other post's have pointed out the
failings of the NASA structure.

I have read recently in aviation space week that Atlas V and delta IV
heavy fall short to launch JIMO at 40,000 + pounds into its orbit*
Perhaps here is a shuttle C mission.
                     Shuttle C with a Prometheus nuclear engine and

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" Beginning in 2011, the COMPLEX study states, the first in a series of
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Using a somewhat unconventional possess. If anyone has any information that
might help please let me know.
This possess will take about $385,000.00 to get all the equipment needed. I