Space Forum / Space Policy / December 2003

Has a flight readiness firing been scheduled for the Heavy before it
is launched?

I was emailed a link to this lecture by Elon Musk, I took some notes
as the link was slow and stuttering. The Q&A session at the end had
some really quiet students asking questions. Not sure if there is any
new news in here, but they apparently have a second customer lined up

    I've made a couple of posts to sci.space.moderated over the last
week and none of them have ever shown up in the group. Is it running
completely on auto with a whitelist. It's been a long time since I had
previously posted there and I think I was using a different e-mail

Jeffrey Bell wrote a great opinion piece for SpaceDaily that takes on
one thread often bandied about here--the historical exploration
analogy:
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-03zzx.html

I´m GRANATOR, ruler of the universe!
If you humans dare to invade space, my robot ships will atomize you!
You have to pay me 99% of your income, or you will be destroyed !
Muhahahahahaha!

I wonder how Elon Musk slipped this one under the radar. According to
this article:
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/70/1
Elon Musk says the follow on to Falcon I will be a vehicle called

Just wanted everyone to know that Al Globus (NASA-Ames) has written a new
book about space settlement titled "Orbital Space Colonies" to be released
by Windstorm Creative.  An excerpt (Introduction and part of Chapter 4) is
available on the Space Settlement site at

Say goodby to the promised EELV launch cost savings!
According to the Reuters report at
"http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/031118/arms_eelv_1.html"
"WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Air Force Undersecretary

If life is discovered on Mars, and I mean actual living bacteria, not just
fossils, will the discovery affect the way we proceed with colonization or
terraforming of the planet?  I mean, if Mars is alive and we start bringing
terrestrial plants and various other organisms, wont it ...

The years of March 2002 to April 2004 are the 50th anniversary of the
great Colliers Series on Space flight. (The von Braun, Ley, Whipple,
Bonestell, et al...... team.)
Looking at these magazines and books again,... the Moon Mission and

I've seen several russian spacesuits, mostly of the Sorkol variety,
for sale on Ebay. A few weeks ago, an auction house had a Strekh suit
from Buran for sale. this has me wondering if there might be larger
hardware for purchase in Russia? Can anyone reccomend resources for

Tez sie posmiejcie:
"The USA already has the know how to send people to the Moon.
There should be a basic core mission that the USA can do alone
and let the international community add on to if they like. The

It turns out that the December 5 Strela (a converted
UR-100NU/RS-18/SS-19 ICBM) launch from Baikonur put
two objects into low earth orbit.  The latest TLEs are:
1 28098U 03055A   03342.75884782 +.00002435 +00000-0 +74346-4 0 00196

Did you know you can buy land on the moon?
This site claims that there are already over 1,125,000 lunar land owners
from 176 countries around the world. To date more than 300 million acres
have been issued to people from all walks of life here on planet Earth. The

Here is a funny story about NASA overkill on a smallsat
job from this week's Aviation Week, online version at:
"http://www.aviationow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/12083top.xml"
"Military Applications Could Push Smallsats Over Launch-Cost Hurdle