Space Forum / Space Policy / December 2003

Hello from Finland.
We have already December 17. Does anyone knows, what time President
Bush is giving his Kitty Hawk speech today?
Bestest, IL of FI

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 22:16:36 GMT, mcai9ce2@hotmail.com (Christopher) wrote:

But not too serious, really.
Armadillo's got a great 100th anniversery video that features Widget
in his previously unknown role as an associate of Orville and
Wilbur's. Funny stuff. Check it out.

Would it make sense to set the OSP requirements after the available
launchers?
Begin with a simple Delta IV or Atlas V withouth solids and design a
service module with engines and fuel tanks and a reusable capsule with

A post from Joe Strout that already vanished from my server before I
went back to the thread read, in part:

Okay, I'm behind the times, but just today, I came across something cute at one
of the fan sites for the x-plane simulator from laminar research. The proposal
is called "X-prize for dummies". It involves using an SRB from an Atlas V
strapped under the belly of a now-surplus Concorde ...

NASA and Northrop Grumman appear to have solved the problem
that stymied Lockheed Martin's X-33.
"http://www.irconnect.com/noc/pages/news_releases.mhtml?d=50053"
- Ed Kyle

The Planetary Society Completes Grassroots Campaign in Support of
Human Exploration of Mars
November 26, 2003:
On November 10 of this year, The Planetary Society launched a

Hello!!
      I suspect my opinion is in the minority as to mankind space travelling.
Actually, I hope our present civilization as a  whole never accomplishes an
efficient method of traveling beyond our present solar system. Why? Because in

A year or so ago I posted some messages here about my research at the
Univeristy of Texas at Austin that got me expelled.  I had a new
theory that there were some new gravitational forces causing the
problems we have had reaching Mars - six of the last seven missions

Enjoy:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/21/opinion/21FERR.html?ex=1072587600&en=bc915
0907c16ce4b&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
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I heard a rumor that the original plan had Space Ship One
performing its first X-Prize run on Dec 17, but that the
aero troubles set them back a bit.  Maybe six weeks.  So
late Jan, early Feb now.  Maybe.  Just a rumor.    

In honor of the centennial, I have an essay about the brothers Wright
up at TechCentralStation:
http://www.techcentralstation.com/121703D.html

Why didn't the Wright Brothers invent the helicopter? Is this a
strange question to ask?
I think it's rather an obvious question. Since flight was something
new, strange, and unusual, someone proposing to invent a means of

From the Washington Times:
As is tradition at the annual holiday White House Basement Party, a
Christmas poem - penned this year by Greg Clugston of Salem Radio News - was
read to all assembled, including White House Press Secretary Scott