Space Forum / Space Policy / March 2004

"What we need to do as we enter this dawn of the 21st century, is not talk
about going to the Moon or even to Mars. We need to go to the Moon right
here on Earth by creating the jobs, building the high value-added jobs of
the future, making clear that no young American in uniform ...

2030 is so far in the future, I wonder what would be easier, sending humans to
Mars or sending Androids there. In seems conceivable that we could build an
artificial human by 2030. Artificial people would not need life support, would
not need oxygen, and would need minimum ...

Last month when Bush announced his space "vision" or "plan", I said,
based on O'Keefe's chart, that it is mostly or entirely business as
usual as long as Bush is president.  Later other people, notably Alex
Roland and Robert Park, said the same thing.  But some space pundits and

Toulouse, the 27th of February
Galileo : US - EC negotiations outputs.
After 3 years of difficult negotiation, an important step has been reached
the 25th of February 2004. Brussels and Washington agree on the principle of

    Today's "Houston Chronicle" had a front page story on how the
planned termination of the shuttle program (and its possibly slipping
next launch date) is causing some worry in the astronaut corps. While
morale remains high, there is increasing anxiousness about the decreasing

The two asteroids I have in mind:
2000 LY27 and 2000 YJ11
http://clowder.net/hop/railroad/1_5/1_5.html
These two asteroids come near the Earth every three years. Their 1.5

An interesting item found at
http://nucnews.net/nucnews/2003nn/0310nn/031007nn.htm#100
 USAF Eyes Nuclear, Sat Program Link
 By JEREMY SINGER

mammalian reprodution in "zero g"
is this maybe bad news?
of course this experiment needs to be a flight experiment like as in
now!

I've read several times now that the new Bush plan for NASA is a cover-up to
"militarize space."  Let me take a moment to note this is absurd.
Look at the technology involved.  The centerpiece is the new
modular manned system.  Completely useless to the Pentagon.  (Look through any