Archive for May, 2010
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
That ship for me sailed as I watched the space station “dumb down” from a commercial center of microgravity research to “just another NASA project”. So for ME unless we do something in space with human spaceflight that has some value to …..
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Space Politics » Other notes from yesterday's hearing
Tags: beo, chemical-propulsion, dumb-down, inherently-expensive, launcher, more-efficient, nasa, planning-long, some-value
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
That ship for me sailed as I watched the space station “dumb down” from a commercial center of microgravity research to “just another NASA project”. So for ME unless we do something in space with human spaceflight that has some value to ….. Space travel is inherently expensive.
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Space Politics » Other notes from yesterday's hearing
Tags: beo, bigger-the-launcher, chemical-propulsion, dumb-down, inherently-expensive, launcher, more-efficient, nasa, planning-long, some-value
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
We have all the technology we would have needed to do it and lead to RLVs or some other way to get cheap and reliable commercial access to space in the process. In fact we have had it for about thirty years, despite what SDLV …. While simultaneously neglecting the development of domestic air travel (suborbital spaceflight ) because isn’t hard enough.
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It's Not About The Excitement – Transterrestrial Musings
Tags: airplanes-never, development, domestic-air, get-cheap, must-depend, rlvs-or-some, technology, the-technology, thirty-years
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
We have all the technology we would have needed to do it and lead to RLVs or some other way to get cheap and reliable commercial access to space in the process. In fact we have had it for about thirty years, despite what SDLV …. While simultaneously neglecting the development of domestic air travel (suborbital spaceflight ) because isn’t hard enough
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It's Not About The Excitement – Transterrestrial Musings
Tags: airplanes-never, because-isn, development, domestic-air, get-cheap, get-developed, must-depend, process, rlvs-or-some, technology, the-technology, thirty-years, Vision
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Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
In The Forge Soval gave an awesome speech in which he basically states that the Vulcans noticed the fast progress the humans have made regarding space travel (from first space flight to warp 5 in ca. 200 years, whereas the Vulcans …
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Star Trek – Television Tropes & Idioms
Tags: basically-states, ca-200, fast, forge-soval, from-first, noticed-the-fast, progress-the-humans, space-flight
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