Space Forum / Space Policy / July 2008

On July 29, 1958, President Eisenhower signed National Air and Space
Act, establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) as a civilian agency in response to the challenge of the Soviet
launch of Sputnik nearly a year before.

Virgin Galactic rolled out its White Knight Two aircraft, which is
designed to loft the planned tourist spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo to an
altitude of fifty thousand feet before launching it on suborbital
flights with two pilots and six paying customers

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several visits in last week-end (from a "well known" Space Agency and
a "well known" Space Company) to my (1.5 years old) "How to design a
lighter Orion" article:

28 Juli, 05:12
Title: Munifus Landmark Estate ™ House Manufacturing Worldwide
Project
Contracting

Yes, that was certainly an "oops" moment there, but the upward trend in
even the U.S. data is still pretty clear from the graph:
 <http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D_lrg.gif>
...particularly when you look at the 5-year mean, which helps filter out

Amateurs web camchat http://tubepenthouse.servik.com/view_cam.htm

People who don't like truth make up lies as they need them. The media
allows broadcasting lies along with truth and real scientific fact
giving lies equal standing. It's no wonder things are as they are.
Did you see the UFO programs on Larry King? All lies.

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as I've already said SEVERAL TIMES and EVERYWHERE on the web, my FAST-
SLV was/is NOT a "new rocket", like all old shuttle-derived concepts
(or the LATER "Direct", that's only a BAD COPY of my idea) but a

See:
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/SpaceX072308.xml&headli
ne=SpaceX%20Prepares%20For%20Third%20Launch&channel=space
Hope they make it to orbit this time.

Sultan Residence to Holiday Cottage -
Home Manufacturing Worldwide
Munifus Landmark Estate ™ represents a building-contractor located in
many of the most beautiful and highly attractive locations around the

NASA Directs Contractor To Adopt Ares and Orion Launch Date Postponements
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1295
  Update programmatic milestone dates to the following:
     Preliminary Design Review (PDR) Board   11/21/08

Monday, July 21, 2008
If you want to repeat Apollo, do it right
Henry Spencer, computer programmer, spacecraft engineer and amateur space
historian

I was thinking what a mind-bending thing Sputnik was back in the day.
All the space cadets of the 1950s eagerly watching Flash Gordon and
reading McCall's seemed vindicated in their enthusiasm, and the 1960s
- after the election of Kennedy - seemed to be the fulfillment of all

Sultan Residence to Holiday Cottage -
Home Manufacturing Worldwide
Munifus Landmark Estate ™ represents a building-contractor located in
many of the most beautiful and highly attractive locations around the