Space Forum / Space Policy / January 2007

Does anyone have a video link?

China Hits Its Target . . . And it's on West 43rd Street.
by James Oberg // Weekly Standard // 1/27/2007, Volume 012, Issue 20
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Check.asp?idArticle=13219&r=eztbj
  Two weeks ago, high above eastern Asia, a Chinese missile unerringly

Terrorforming as brought to you by uncontrolled industrialization, corrupt
politicians and religiously promoted overpopulation.  Enjoy the changes.
Extinction of Species
Deforestation

CLIMATE change is real and set to cause dramatic temperature rises in the
coming century, according to a leaked draft of a major United Nations
report
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=134472007

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/The_COTS_Enigma_999.html
Just read this, and while it's got the usual amount of ranting and
raving one might expect from the author, along with a few unjustified
barbs thrown at Kistler's design choices, there's a certain depressing

What would you like to be our major goals in space over the next 50
years ?
Examples are :-
1) Landing a man on Mars

Everybody knows that when the earth was totally molten all the heavier
elements sank to the center like iron and nickel. What they don't say is
that the heaviest should be at the center like gold, lead etc. The
center core of the earth could be liquid gold; which would make a great

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A little conspiratorial music, Maestro
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http://www.nurple.com/sideshow/

SpaceX was expected to do its static fire by yesterday.  I don't see any
update about it on their web site yet, though.  Anybody have any
information about it to share?
Thanks,

How many believe that by the time the new president is elected bushes
plans are tossed in the waste can?

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070122/59488562.html
Russia to put new radar station on combat duty in 2007 - commander
14:03 | 22/ 01/ 2007
MOSCOW, January 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Space Forces plan to place

IEEE Spectrum Online // CHINA'S SATELLITE KILLER: IS IT A THREAT?
January 19th, 2007 // James Oberg  //
http://spectrum.ieee.org/jan07/comments/1691
see also:

I've added an Ares I article to my new launcher review.
"http://www.geocities.com/launchreport/ares1.html"
"http://www.geocities.com/launchreport/weblog.html"
The writeup includes some "Stick history".

Militarization and The Moon-Mars Program: Another Wrong Turn in Space?
     by Richard C. Cook
     http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=COO20070122&arti
cleId=4554
     Global Research, January 22, 2007

No, not yet FALSE. Those comments on the link to the forum are all
baseless rhetoric. Not a single one of those posts goes towards