Space Forum / Space Policy / November 2003

Robert Zubrin, the aerospace engineer who is a staunch advocate of exploring
Mars, is speaking on Sunday, 9 November, in Schaumburg, Illinois.
Here's the information I got from the local National Space Society folks.
This book deals with the simulated Mars habitats the Mars Society ...

They should put something on the moon that would give lots of people
exposure to it:
a) an engineering school - teach a semester of graduate astronautics to
select students up on the moon. Make it a branch of MIT or Caltech.

http://www.senate.gov/~commerce/hearings/witnesslist.cfm?id=987
"Science, Technology, and Space Subcommittee hearing scheduled for Thursday,
November 6, at 2:30 a.m. in room 253 of the Russell Senate Office Building.
Members will hear testimony about future exploration of the Moon. ...

I know nothing a bout this other than it's on orion.
(BBC2)

Yeah, well _I'm_ not selling it, but this the real thing.
Just found the link from SpaceToday.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2572382454&category=45046&ssp
agename=rvi:1:1
(Or search for 'SpaceDev' from the ebay home page).

According to:
    http://www.spacedaily.com/news/xprize-03c.html
...quoting Randall Clague, the FAA AST has acknowledged
that a filed Xcor RLV launch license is "sufficiently complete"

The outer shell of atmospheric reentry spacecraft
is made of expensive and frail materials. It may
be possible to replace the expensive materials
with cheap tungsten if we can protect the tungsten

   Back in 2002, Leonard Robinson mentioned Used Space Books, Richard
Jackson's collection.
   Jackson is now quitting business. Find his site at
    http://www.usedspacebooks.com/

Re Senate hearings today on prospects for new manned lunar initatives.
Astonishing that witnesses came up with as thin political reasoning as
they did. Senate doesn't care about your technical opportunities for
creating large telecopes, Professor Angel (though scientifically they

Oct 31, 2003 announcement of NASA buy of two Taurus and two Pegasus
launches during 2006-08.
"http://www.orbital.com/Template.php?Section=News&NavMenuID=32&template=PressRele
aseDisplay.php&PressReleaseID=438"
According to the following link, the launches will cost about

RED ROUND A.I computer stolden form NASA. Franklin Tennessee
1-11-2001

GOES-N was added to the KSC launch schedule, and appears to be the
first Delta IV launch for NASA.
As noted here some months back, GOES-N was switched from a Delta III
to a Delta IV.  Did not see any info on how much NASA pays for the

I am seeking a dimensional 3-view of the Capsule-Body OSP depicted on
NASA's ospnews.com website. Does anyone know of an online source for
such a graphic?
Thanks,

We are witnessing in real time the fact that stellar atmospheric dynamics
are much more complex than anyone admits to.  The observed eleven year solar
cycle is so poorly understood that there are not many astrophysicists that
will make the claim that it can be adequately described ...

I keep seeing nothing but good comments about it.  What is bad about it?