Space Forum / Space Policy / February 2004

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/02/17/russia.spacecraft.ap/index.html
Russian engineers have begun design work on a new spacecraft that would be
twice as big and spacious as the existing Soyuz crew capsules
Intriguing. Would be just the what is needed to replace the Shuttle. ...

(or kill yucca mountain)
$40 billion and more will be spent by DOE and the commercial nuclear
power industry to try to make nuclear waste to "go away"
hahaha well some have suggested a solar disposel for this stuff.the

It seems the item of greatest importance on JPL's list everyday is
informing the public of what catchy tune the 'song coordinator' has
picked out for the rover wakeup that day. Come on, not every single
event has to be serenaded by a song title. This became silly somewhere

In regards to the big bang: Instead of an
explosion which originates from a superdense point of space, could it
be possible that two (or more) dense matters collided at super speed,
thereby causing the explosion, and explaining the excess energy in

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    This is a Science Forum, and the question of possible life on
other planets has often been asked... what I suggest here is that
this question has now been answered !

The US commits $15 billion over three years to form a United Space
Initiative wherein all space faring nations combine resources to
return people to the moon.
President Bush said some nice things about returning to the moon.

Is for this launch services exclusive of the booster cost?
$135 million seems a bit cheap for Delta IV Heavy.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-boeing26feb26,0,7196279.story?coll=la-head
lines-business
 Air Force to Pay Boeing, Lockheed More

That's not the title of my latest Fox Column, but it should have been.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,111821,00.html

I was wondering why the idea of earth based mass drivers as a way to
fly up fuel, raw material, and volitiles aren't floated more. It seems
like logistically its easier to set up an earth based mass driver that
fires off every couple of minutes a new compliment of fuel or water up

We're getting hit, so watch out.  I got an e-mail with an attachment
called "undefinied.rtf.scr" (sic).  Looks suspicious as hell.

Arianespace.com has the V158/A518 (Rosetta) press kit
online, which provides interesting info on the planned
2/26/04 launch.  
This will be the first Ariane 5G+ with a delayed-start

A request arrived in the mail yesterday from some fella in Germany
wanting a signed photo of Vance Brand (astronaut). Somehow, he got the
idea that Brand has something to do with my magazine Aerospace Projects
Review ("Vance DeVoe Brand c/o Aerospace Projects Review").

Since the Concorde is NOT SUPERSONIC,
when it flies from NY to Paris...
The flight was eventually cancelled...
Since the Space Shuttle does not go faster

The following message was sent to me by a buddy who works closely with
VXWorks, a commercial RTOS that's used on Spirit.  Unfortunately he
couldn't identify the original poster, but it has loads of good technical
details regarding why Spirit broke down.  Unfortunately, the OP's ...

any takers???