Space Forum / Space Policy / May 2004

Interesting article:
http://www.nature.com/nsu/040517/040517-8.html
-Andi

looks like the russians kidnapped Len:
http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=4347221&startrow=1&date=2004-
05-21&do_alert=0

Here's an off-the-cuff thought which I lack the expertise to answer in
any detail:
What would it take to focus & reflect sunlight on a lunar colony from a
series of orbiting lunar satellites?  I'm imagining something where one

Assuming the Moon/Mars/Beyond initiative actually gets into the hardware
and flying stages, there is an important, basic set of decisions to be
made.
The first of which is, what mode do we use to get back to the Moon?

so who messed up?

The number of entrants who are actually participating in this race is quite
astounding, in my opinion. Almost a dozen people are working on actual
hardware, some are testing propulsion, some are even doing flight testing.
What do you guys think will happen to the non-winners when ...

 "ONERA (French Aerospace Research Center) will develop a
 new radar system network aimed at space surveillance and that
 will be able to detect objects 25 cm in size from a distance

With all the challenges that face humans in space, what are the good
reasons to want to explore in the first place.  I could think of only a
few.  Microgravity is an important tool scientists can use to do
research.  I have a few others but am looking for other input.

My attempts at searching on the subject have thus-far been cluttered
to uselessness with UFO/nut-sites, so, in the spirit of the Lunar
aluminum thread, I thought I'd try asking the group-mind.
Large-scale exploration/development in space pretty much requires

My name is Gary Stollman and I am the person who in August of 1987 crashed the
live set of KNBC TV in downtown Burbank, California, and forced Consumer
Advocate David Horowitz to read a prepared statement about how the CIA and
alien beings had replaced my family and friends with ...

Who needs a time machine "information travels faster than time"
Based on a on a papper I read,6 months ago on Optical Physics
Information encoded in a laser moves faster than time!
So if someone triangled 3 satelight in orbit. Someone could

After a suborbital rocket gets things started, all the
energy/momentum for lifting people/cargo the rest of the way
to the moon and then lowering them down onto the moon can
come from moon rocks going the other way.  This fantastic

I've been following the latest at Armadillo with some interest:
John Carmack's switched from a multi-engine vehicle to a vehicle with
one big engine controlled with Jet Vanes.
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=256">

So, how come the guys out in the desert can fly to 40 miles up,
whereas NASA couldn't get the X-34 off the runway? I vaguely recalled
that NASA spent over $100 million for a boilerplate X-34, whereas
SS1's budget is considerably less.

http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/projects/psa/
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Gareth Slee
Stupid gravity!