Space Forum / Space Policy / October 2006

I think that movie, porn in space, with real astronauts doing each
other,
could be a monster-hit. Everybody wants to see horny space cowboys
doing sexy spacevixens.

NASA Watch says that it seems that Lockheed Martin isn't so shy about
marketing Atlas as a possible human rated vehicle and points to this page:
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/wms/findPage.do?dsp=fec&ci=17607&rsbci=14917&fti=0
&ti=0&sc=400
The above contains links to a few AIAA ...

http://www.minutemanmedia.org/GROSSMAN%20100406.htm
Pass this on to a 4th grade science class so they can spot the fallacies.

For those interested, I'm doing a series of articles on new launch
vehicles currently being developed in the world.  To date, I've
examined SpaceX Falcon 1 and Europe's Vega.
"http://geocities.com/launchreport/blog017a.html"

Does anyone know what this thing is?
http://atk.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=press_releases&item=626
What motors are used? What configuration to fly to orbit? Payload?
Etc..

Spaceref.com has a nice article on alternatives
based on CBO report.
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=22323
full report at

Hey all have you seen this?
http://www.directlauncher.com/
"DIRECT is an alternative approach to launching missions planned under
NASA's new mandate: The Vision for Space Exploration (VSE). DIRECT

The first manned CEV flight will be Orion 5 in September 2014.
The above is a quote from the following article:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=4859
So the "safe, simple, soon" of Ares I won't give us a manned mission until

An Air Force Academy reasearcher has developed a new type of satellite
telescopic lens:
http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1325576&secid=1
That could be used for new Spy satellites or Space Telescopes.  How

Today's 9-1-06 Ground Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) test appears to
have succeeded.
"http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060901/us_nm/arms_missile_usa_dc"
"http://www.mda.mil/mdalink/html/mdalink.html"

"Mike Combs" <mikecombs@nospam.com_chg_nospam_2_ti> wrote in message
news:...

See the on-going discussion at nasaspaceflight.com,
here:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=4678&posts=14&start=1
I'm advised that a pressure drop in the freon loop, possibly caused by a

A big round of applause to John Carmack, Pixel, Texel, and all
the rest of the Armadillo Aerospace team, folks.  They shot for
the (simulated) Moon, and if they missed this time, well, it
wouldn't be worth a prize if it were a sure thing.

Yesterday was exactly 124 years since Mrs Goddard gave birth to a
little boy she called John.  Just think we might not even be in space
today but for the little boy.  Today there might be a little boy or
girl somewhere who holds the key to human interstellar faster then

Just started a new site at http://www.spaceboot.eu and wanted to get
some first impressions from you.
The site is about how human spaceflight today is going nowhere (in my
opinion) and will be about how maybe things can be done better.