Space Forum / Space Policy / April 2004

Story at:
"http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040306/ap_on_sc/mars_so_what_1"
describes NOAA scientists bemoaning spending on Mars while
their budget is cut.  Article mentions that Mars is now

Like many other people, I've been predicting that there will be no moon
base and no manned mission to Mars in the next 20 years, despite Bush's
"space vision" announced in January.  Indeed, like many other people,
I've been pointing out that O'Keefe and Bush are only asking for ...

Thankyou for your explanation... It was interesting. You raised stuff Id not
thought of. Couple of points I should have perhaps clarified though. When I
posted that question I was thinking more along the lines that you would have
to reshuffle the stations pods and general layout to ...

from Space.com
SECOND SUCCESSFUL ROCKET-POWERED FLIGHT FOR AMERICAN SPACESHIPONE TEAM
04.08.2004
Hot on the heels of receiving it's FAA license, the American SpaceShipOne

This is a viewpoint I see all the time:
http://www.helenair.com/articles/2004/03/04/montana/a01030404_05.txt
To consider how silly this is, perform a thought experiment. Take the
long view. NASA sends humans to Mars and finds a microbe that does not

It's claimed on one or two Islamic web sites that NASA has "evidence"
that the moon was once split in two and then rejoined. Thus proving a
claim in the Koran. Obviously nonsense, but what about the NASA bit?
All I can find is a claim that some NASA 'scientist' revealed it in a

Why are we so concerned with taking bilogical material in sapce. I really
dont understand.
Why shouldnt we be taking biological material into space.. Surely the sooner
we get started doing this the sooner it cleans the planet or moon etc.

FAA AST issued a launch license covering manned suborbital flights
of Scaled Composites' SpaceShip One, as of the first of April.
http://www.faa.gov/apa/pr/pr.cfm?id=1833

Scaled Composites gets an FAA license.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040407/D81Q8VQ00.html
Article says two other companies are being considered for FAA
certification, one being an X-Prize contender. Who's that? Who's the

Recently I have learned of the xprize compettition, that had intrested
me even more on space flight.  Although the xprize is for taking
citizens up for a joy ride or when we have colonies, transports.
Does anyone have a guess when us, the citizens in the future will be

An interesting if heavily redacted version of the NRO congressional
budget justification document for FY 1998-1999 has appeared at
http://www.fas.org/irp/nro/fy98/index.html
The overall document classification was NOFORN TOP SECRET Handle Via

Analysis: Congress warms to new space plan
By Frank Sietzen
United Press International
WASHINGTON, April 6 (UPI) -- In the 1983 movie, "The Right Stuff,"

A number for reference, a thing to think about:
 'Chump change.'
 Air Safety Week, August 19, 2002
 The value of a human life recently increased some 11 percent.