Space Forum / Space Policy / April 2007

http://www.spacetoday.net/Summary/3722
Pretty neat.  $15M for a 4-week stay on orbit; that's quite an
improvement over $20M for a 5-day stay.  And $88M/year to lease your own
300-m^3 space station module?  That's a real bargain.

Distant planet judged possibly habitable
In findings that if confirmed could stand as a landmark in history,
astronomers report finding the most Earth-like planet outside our
Solar System to date.

An interesting rumor from John Young:
http://collectspace.com/ubb/Forum39/HTML/000114.html

Interesting pictures............
http://www.authorSTREAM.com/presentation.aspx?pun=Noble-544-earth-like-planet-gl
iese-581-eso-wilhelm-education-powerpoint

I think that even this is a little bit too much reading into the tea
leaves.
Orion/Ares is a vehicle that has yet to be completely designed.  The
operational vehicle is not going to fly for another seven years; it

And neked long-haired Aryan babes in psychic contact with Aldebaran:
http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/
Words fail me...imagine someone as mad as Brad Guth, but actually
competent enough to make a decent website!

Interesting about the "mobile" part, though not surprising. DF-21 and
DF-31 based systems are still possible candidates.
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Check out this article, advocating the use of airships to loft optical
telescopes:  <http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2006/07/14.html>
Then ponder this: under what conditions might it make sense to put large
banks of solar panels on such airships, and beam the energy to the ...

I am kicking off a blog carnival on space. Here is
the announcement:
http://whyhomeschool.blogspot.com/2007/04/announcing-carnival-of-space.html
    If you have a blog, please consider sending

At thedewline.typepad.com/stephen_trimble/files/
af_unfunded_priorities_list_2007.pdf there is a document called the FY
2008 Unfunded Priority List for the U.S. Air Force's budget for fiscal
year 2008 (October 2007 through

http://www.space.com/news/ap_070415_columbia_settlement.html
I dislike the payout. That's what life insurance is for.
We clearly need product warning labels on the Shuttle...

http://www.kvue.com/news/state/stories/041007kvuenowakevidence-cb.c80e9a6.html
Things seem to be "evolving" in the Nowak episode...
Robert

With Soyuz rockets no less?: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18053937/
Pat

Since my R.I.P. Rathergate thread has devolved
into a chatterbox for chowderheads, I thought I
ought to use a separate thread for a couple of
items I had posted in the main thread but may