Space Forum / Space Station / August 2008

Man last stepped on the moon in 1972 with Apollo 17, and it has been
the dream of that group of astronauts to go back to the moon. Now
there is a effort to get back to the moon by 2020, To many that's a
long time to wait. With projects such as Orion and the development of

Over on the Shuttle group they brought up maybe making solar power
satellites. I cannot see how this can work. It would need some new
technology surely to  make power transmission through the atmosphere work
efficiently.

The last I heard, it costs over $10,000 per pound to send people and cargo
into low Earth orbit.
Why is it so expensive?
What would it take to bring the price down to $100 per pound, or less? Do we

May sound very silly, but I was wondering if this problem could be
mineralised by making several auxiliary  'vernier' nozzles on the side of
the solid segments, so the  vibration is  disrupted.
Brian

Hi, i wont to build the starship Daedalus from Sragate, but i can not found
ussefull textures of the insite of the ship, i need everthing.
The walls, doors, control panels etc et.
i have something, but its not enough.

I caught the end of an item on the radio yesterday which said that two drugs
have been developed to trick the body into laying down muscle rather than
fat, so couch potatoes can have a head start in getting fit..Actually the
angles in the item were more drugs for sport cheats, ...