Space Forum / Space Policy / July 2009

Am wondering what the minimal requirements are for the google lunar
prize.  Consider a simple H2O2 based monopropellant rocket to slow it
based on a simple highway speed radar.  A few m above the surface, the
payload separates and inflates (base it on an auto-airbag system to

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ATK and NASA unveiled the new 5-segments SRB and the early data in the
NASA page say that it "generates a maximum of 3.6 million lbs of
thrust, 24 percent more power than one twin Shuttle solid rocket

By launching small quanties of stuff from the living, like a few
strands of hair or clipped finger nail samples.
Why limit your business to the dead when the living might like to buy
your service?

Looks like our ancestors got whacked 'bout 12900 yrs ago and it did in
lots of megafauna in North America:
http://uonews.uoregon.edu/archive/news-release/2009/7/californias-channel-island
s-hold-evidence-clovis-age-comets
I wonder if we can tie this into the origin of the Carolina ...

ATK  Alliant Techsystems Inc makes the shuttle solids
among many other things.
http://www.atk.com/Capabilities/c_space_default.asp
The insider trades for the last year are....

Actually, lava tubes.  Seems to be his latest thing on the aRocket email
list.  References:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930004784_1993004784.pdf
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930008225_1993008225.pdf

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/07/death-knell-for-nasa
s-ares-roc.html
Read the comments as to its applicability to DIRECT.

For the sake of argument, assume Panspermia is true, that life began
somehwere in space and is carried on comets many which wander from
star to star not being gravitationally bound to a star.
I have no idea of the speed such comets move but take 1000 mph, not

Great article regarding two very different moon walkers.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574299851367749282.html#m
od=rss_opinion_main

Rep. Peter King - Republican Congressman - Sex Pervert - Pedophile
No need to actually try and convict him, that's what republican
congressmen do. You know he does it. I'll bet he loves it too.

According to Universe Today something—it is currently uncertain what
it is—impacted Jupiter on July 19th, as the world was celebrating the
40th anniversary of Apollo 11. The Jupiter impact was first detected
by an amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley.

I remember frantically mowing lawns and collecting old coke bottles so
I could replace the 2 bad tubes on our old B&W TV set so I could watch
the moon landing.  I was 13 and had just been with a scout group to
Titusville, FL to watch Apollo 11 take off and I had models of the

Forty years after the event, one marvels at how it could have come to
be. Just over eight years after a young President issued the
challenge, a man, born on the planet Earth, put his foot prints upon
the soil on another world. He did so in full view of about a billion

It's really sad that a sizable number of Americans and Europeans think
that the Apollo Moon landings were fake. It just shows the large
ignorance present in our society, which is more and more being
dominated by technology which people fail to underatand or even grasp.

http://us.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/07/20/nasa.future.human.exploration/i
ndex.html
My guess is that if no water is found on the Moon, the U.S. will still
return there but only for a brief period of time. OTOH if water is