Space Forum / Space Policy / February 2004

It seems that everyone's saying different things about whether it is or not.
Is there anyone who actually knows?

Space policy will have its own version of King Kong vs. Godzilla at the
Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington on Thursday, February 5,
beginning at 5:30PM.  Namely, a debate between Robert Zubrin and Robert
Park.  If you haven't read this newsgroup much, Zubrin is president ...

Apparently, Sean O'Keefe provided a name during the Jan 28
Senate hearing.  
NASA has named the Crew Exploration Vehicle effort
"Project Constellation", a name with both nautical and

Clarence Page has been watching too many episodes of the X Files:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-0401180511jan18,1,3078959.
column?coll=chi-news-col
Of course, even if this were true, then so what? If we can make money and

Said Mark Albrecht, president of International Launch
Services after the successful 2/5/04 launch of AMC-10
by Atlas IIAS AC-165:  "Sixty-nine out of 69 launches
since 1993 of all Atlas configurations -- a record that

An unusual view: An Atlas-2AS with white painted Centaur.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/ac165/images/040205atlas2asonpad.jpg
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/ac165/images/040205amc10launch.jpg
The first white painted centaur was seen only with the Atlas-5(521), which

Everyone should go to http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/index.html if
look at this. I have been helping with this of and one for about a
year. Well anyone how believes in ET life/UFO life. I will tell you a
little about it. This is just the basics ok if you will like to learn

hi ..
two assumptions:
1. hubble is really given up by NASA - no more servicing missions ..
2. spaceX or other company (not necessarily a US company .. thus

This is interesting:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=4272721
Hot on the heels of Bush's new long term plan for NASA
manned spaceflight, the ESA says they're going to the

http://www.tbs-satellite.com/tse/online/lanc_pegasus.html
OSC plans to equip Pegasus XL with two turbojets. Once released at 12000
m altitude the Pegasus Turbo will be accelerated by its turbojets to
reach 30000 m altitude at over Mach 4. OSC claims the 30.8 t Pegasus

If the US has decided that the moon is the right place to go, would an
equatorial launch base make sense?
How much would this improve the mass to Lunar Orbit?
Could this base be shared with the russians? I think the russian space

According to:
"http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_aerospacedaily_story.jsp?id=news/c
ev02044.xml"
"Project Constellation" will produce three CEV development
blocks.  These will include prototypes, an unmanned Block I

Since each astronaut needs to exercise a lot, regularly, I was
wondering if there are any plans to attach generators or other useful
mechanisms to the exercise bicycle or treadmill. I've got my exercise
bike hooked up to a lathe or can swap it out to a 12 v. generator. It

I just came across a set of faxed pages that apparently relate to
discussions that were going on in late April - early May 1987
about USG/USAF/NRO heavy lift requirements and how to satisfy them.
There's a fair amount of interesting, if somewhat disjointed,

The CEV could be sent on a Lunar orbit mission in the near term.
Nath.