John Griffin wrote: The next ten years is the next decade. The next ten of anything is a next decade. (Speaking of definitions...) No, that would be...

Not the right letter, but Privatizing Earth to LEO might be. So what would a letter to Michael Griffin look like to privatize Earth to LEO manned space...

Christians are irrational. They're so irrational, and they know it, that they refuse to allow people to refer to Christianity in print. Christian Science -...

http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_post-darwinist_archive.html Friday, December 08, 2006 MORE Quick posts: Recent events in the intelligent...

This topic came up in an earlier discussion, so here is a section of my book, 'Star-Crossed Orbits', that tries to put it into perspective: As the Soviet...

The inflated habitats Bigelow are developing are coming in at around twenty ton and necessarily require large expendable launchers. Bigelow has put up a $50...

So you've all probably read that the latest Mach10 flight was successful. The statements from NASA's O'Keefe seem to indicate that this technology will be used...

A group of planetary scientists, former astronauts, and former NASA officials, led by the Planetary Society's Louis Friedman, have come up with a proposal to...

I've been simulating single stage to orbit (SSTO) launch to low earth orbit (LEO) in orbiter space flight simulator for a little while now. Consider your...

"Boeing is studying scaled-up variants of the reusable X-37B orbital test vehicle (OTV) for potential delivery of cargo and crew to the International Space...

This article describes the plan to sell the orbiters minus engines for $42 million: For sale: Used space shuttles. Asking price: $42 million apiece By John...

How can it be that Orion/Constellation is cheaper (if *not* going back to the Moon) that just fixing the Shuttle ET, and if the added weight of a...

It is time to take the burgeoning science of ELECTROGRAVITICS and put it to use. JNL Labs has working models. It has demonstrated not only the feasibility of...

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He has shed this mortal veil, and has gone to be judged by God. The *******'s got lighter fluid in his hair and a bag of charcoal briquettes up his ass. And...

For those inerested in such things, David Porttree posted on his blog a discussion of my old paper "Footsteps to Mars," suggesting how to do a Mars mission in...

I would guess that the first person to walk on Mars would probably be Chinese in about 2020. My odds would be Nationality of first person on Mars :- Chinese...

I just heard on CNN that China has announced it plans to land a human on the moon by 2020. I don't like China but I think this is great news. Now the...

UPI Exclusive: Bush OKs new moon missions By Frank Sietzen Jr. and Keith L. Cowing United Press International WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- American astronauts...

I find it amusing that NASA Watch doesn't like Rand's columns. Here's what they had to say about his last column: Editor's note: These Fox-sponsored,...