That's the title of my latest column at Tech Central Station, in which I discuss why the economics of OSP make no...

Back in the the sixties there were three new spacecraft in 10 years. Now we might get one in the next ten years. Is the difference just caused by funding, or...

Rand Simberg writes: Do you have a citation that attributes a "total development cost" of $12 billion for OSP to any named source within NASA? Not...

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/people/journals/space/katnik/sts87-12-23.html Excerpt: ------ STS-87 is Home! The Post-Flight Inspection Begins by Greg...

In today's Star Ledger (and likely many other papers) there was an article about how ISS is "an accident waiting to happen". Because of poor communication...

What happened to the anti-nuke crowd that used to come out of the woodwork whenever there was a Cassini fly-by? About how the plutonium could...

I grabbed this off the Mars Society Web Sight today. What got my attention is that Sean O'Keefe said that it represented "wrong headed thinking." Anybody know...

Testing of Russian "space parachute" for returning cargoes to earth postponed Moscow, 23 September: Tests of the Russian "space parachute" Demonstrator-2 have...

Ugh. Is there a FAQ for the sci.space.* groups around anywhere? John

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:40:17 +0000 (UTC), Ian Stirling wrote: In sci.space.policy Brad Guth wrote: Obviously...

As is obvious by my previous post reply and other mars posts show nothing of any serious work has been conducted by NASA for a human mission to Mars as yet,...

Firstly, could someone please explain to me why a space elevator is a good idea, period, I just do not get it. I can not help but see a space elevator in the...

Joann Evans in his last post sent me a url regarding Pegasus. The web page had several pages of Pegasus, and the now civilian aircraft used to launch...

I have read that the greatest cost component for NASA in a launch is overhead and this is very understandable. They have large fixed assetts with large costs...

The recently reviewed Orbital Space Plane Level II Requirements http://www.ospnews.com/osp_srr.pdf (executive summary) make no mention of reusability. Given...

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-03zy.html This article lists some very compelling reasons why the OSP should be a capsule.

In article , "Paul Blay" wrote: *Follow-ups trimmed* s.p. added. ...

I wrote up something about the books I have at: http://spacetethers.com/vincebooks/ My favorite for tech and vision of the future...

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/08/31/sprj.colu.space.sedan.ap/index.html The OSP program is on a crash schedule to get it flying within 5 years....

Now that you guys have killed my supergun idea , what about a giant balloon/zeppelin that could fly upwards of 50KM in the stratosphere. Then it could launch...