Space Forum / Space Policy / September 2004

                   Space Access Update #104  9/29/04
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Looks like we might in fact see a commercial Space Tourism Bus in the
next few years!!!!!  Completely reusable or disposable Hybrid
propulsion?  At $200K per seat any takers?       Rand, Earl?
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/27/branson.space/index.html

I was told (by someone who should know) at the Return To The Moon
Conference in Las Vegas in July, that Futron would soon be releasing
their proprietary space tourism market research study (based on
research by the Zogby polling organization), that they'd previously

Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal@org.trash) writes:

I pose the question:
http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_10078.shtml

Has anyone seen an estimate for what it costs to operate and maintain (or just
maintain) a launch pad for an expendable vehicle?  For example, the Delta II
pads (SLC-17B  at the Cape and SLC-2W at Vandenberg) have been in operation a
long time, but I can't find any breakout of what ...

    This is a little like rockoons, only with added chance
for disaster if the rocket doesn't ignite:
    Take your bog standard linear acceleration, 10 km long,
with 5 g acceleration. Place rocket on board. When it exits, the

Do you think this could have an impact on the feasibility of solar
power satellites?
http://www.aip.org/pnu/2004/split/701-1.html
http://www.aip.org/png/2004/221.htm

On 27 Sep 2004 13:56:29 GMT, Ian Stirling <root@mauve.demon.co.uk> wrote:

http://www.virgingalactic.com/
"Following Paul G. Allen's visionary investment in developing SpaceShipOne, the world's first privately funded spaceship, Virgin has, subject to all necessary government approvals, signed an agreement with Mojave Aerospace Ventures LLC to license ...

I wanted to ask everybody a question?
After watching that TV programme tonight about did NASA really send man to
the moon I was most interested in what the conspiracy theory and wondered
what everybody thought on the subject.

Interstellar Propulsion Parts Of Asteroids & Gases or atoms from
space. Usually engines cars planes et c start simple or crude and
then develope into more refined examples of that kind of machine.
But your's I find surprising. The on part of ideas that I do not have

Christian Ramos keep going man dont let these fossils
get to ya.We know what cretins they are.Ya can find
them talin about the report ya mentioned all over the
net.Hears a line its a "total study of the

The BBC did an interview with Burt Rutan, whihc is fairly interesting
enough.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3676312.stm
The highlight, however, was their front-page blurb:

This is kind of second-hand. If anyone has more solid information
on what's going on with RASCAL, it would be a kindness to post it.
 http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001105.html
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