Space Forum / Space Policy / February 2006

We're going to have a bad trade deficit with the aliens.
If we find some aliens, they'll probably be beaming some light to us.
Aliens, aliens, you get your various kinds of aliens.  Yet, nobody's
ever seen a alien, because then it wouldn't be alien.

The designs on the wings of a moth.
Designed by predators, or the bark of
a tree. And other such selective events.
Random events mostly, countless and

I have just found this article:
http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/02/21/Navigation/200/204825/CEV+to+gai
n+more+Shuttle+systems.html
I am surprised about NASA thinking on using Shuttle TPS for the CEV.

I am puzzled by Griffin's House committee statement of 2/16/06.
In it ("http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=19658")
He says:
"There are several reasons not to delay the CEV further. First and

Nasa has discontinued experiments aboard the space station partly
because funds are being reallocated over to the new Lunar initiative.
What ever the excuse or reason, & there are several others, the bottom
line is that Nasa cannot obtain the funds for experiments.

Atlantis is coming up on the schedule to be refurbed in a 2-year
program, and NASA has decided since it wouldonly fly maybe once after
that, it makes better financial sense not to upgrade it but retire it
early and mine it for spares to apply to the other two ermaining

I just read through the most sickening thread I've ever laid my eyes
upon. Sure, I laughed, lots of times -- but the fact that people can
actually be so stupid is not just funny, it's also sick.
The "argument" that people don't have a drive to explore would have

I am applying to this Group? as Acceptance? oriented in that I am a -
person incapable of the erroneous acts associated of the Present and
Have Been a previous Mayor Before? - in some small way?
I am a guy who Get's things Done and is seen as an outsider - But -

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http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/healthscience/050921h.asp
We sure got us some dumb motherf..kers in AMERICA!
They just love George W. Bush too.
PETM or Armageddon?

(I always used to hate when people did this for class debates...)
    Can someone tell me why we SHOULDN'T fund the ISS?  (I'm on the
pro-funding side, and i want to knwo what good and valid arguments I'm
going to be up against.  I also like the strange and amusing arguments,

According to <http://kwajrockets.blogspot.com/>,
SpaceX successfully performed an engine firing at Kwajalein
today (2/10/06 North American date).
Congratulations to SpaceX for that hard-earned

Mark Wade has added information to his Encyclopedia Astronautica website
about the history and contenders for the CEV design:
http://www.astronautix.com/craftfam/cev.htm
The final Lockheed design looked like a Soyuz A:

How practical is it to tailor a parking orbit for lunar missions that
is reasonably efficent to reach from KSC and precesses at 180 degrees a
lunar month?
Will McLean

I think SETI makes far too many assumptions.  It is very geared toward
the Drake equation, which is a pragmatic narrowing of information
bandwidth to the point where we're only looking for messages that are
sent with the express purpose of  talking to us.  Considering that we