Space Forum / Space Policy / June 2005

This _joke_ comes from http://www.laughlab.co.uk/topByCountry.html (it
was their top-rated joke in Canada).  A version of it appeared in
sci.space.history, but having grown up during the Space Race, I can't
resist posting it here.  (The topic in that ng was "Is this true?"

Does anyone know if the United Nations or other has a Space Policy
for public viewing?

John Ordover suggests that profitable ventures are the only thing that
will open up space to the drive to explore.  In other words space needs
a killer app.
This suggestion probably dosn't qualify, but it could generate public

Novosti commentator Kislyakov rips Oberg's USA Today op-ed
JimO notes: My original USA Today op-ed
USA TODAY // June 14, 2005 // The Forum
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20050614/oplede14.art.htm

We have an exclusive on what happened to the Dart spacecraft coming out
tomorrow.
Please check USSPACENEWS.com
Cheers!

ussspacenews.com has a follow up

FWIW, in brief, I'm not impressed.  It strikes me as more a
tendentious political document, chock full of conventional wisdom (and
whining about the lack of international cooperation), and clueless
about more serious problems, than a serious policy paper.

The June 21, 2005 Molniya-M launch vehicle failure
(which was the first Molniya-M failure in 15 years
after 52 consecutive successes) is the fifth failed
space launch in 35 attempts from Plesetsk in Russia

http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire200506160749.asp
I don't think this guy likes the shuttle.
Jim Davis

Some suppositions about NASA's upcoming shuttle-derived
announcement at:
"http://www.geocities.com/launchreport/weblog.html"
Shuttle-C it won't be.

I was puzzled by this passage on a web site describing the shuttle:
The Ascent Stage of a Space Shuttle Mission Profile by Jim Cornish.
"It takes five seconds for the shuttle to clear the 85 metre (247 feet)
tower and its 30 metre (100 foot) lightning rod. By the end of the

I am trying to get some feedback from people in the aerospace industry
or engineering in general, to help get readmitted to the University of
Texas at Austin Aerospace Engineering Ph.D program.  All you need to do
to help me is to answer the following short questionare and send your

Press conference from the NSF at 1 PM
http://nsf.gov/news/newsmedia/planetdiscovery.jsp

In all of the years since space exploration got underway in 1957, a huge
source of financing has been over looked & completely ignored -  this  is
the financial resources of huge corporations & multi national comglomerates.
Many of these companies (i.e.Microsoft) have billions of ...

Considering that last year amateurs launched a rocket to 70 miles, what
would you think the probability of them launching an amateur satellite
within 5 yrs?