I was just thinking, there may be a rather simple point that will make human spaceflight more or less irrelevant. Suppose at some point, quite possibly in just...

One of the first thing that strikes you in the face when you look at Bush's Mars plan is that everything it proposes happens at least five years into the...

It occurs to me that human colonization of space will probably turn out to be irrelevant. This is because humans aren't even close to being optimized to live...

Since colonization in the future is likely to accomplished by means of sending a microscopic "seed" of self-reproducing machinery (the "astro-chicken"), I was...

At http://questionnaireresults.commercial-space.net is information on a commercial space questionnaire for members of the aerospace industry and others...

Just seen some pictures of Hubble, and The "Very Large Telescope" (original name) in Chile. It made me think. With a reasonable space based industry, moon...

I'm trying to think through different approaches to capturing material catapulted off the lunar surface. The most comprehensive reference design I've come...

Ok, one of the big problems has been listed has been that a really big asteroid or comet can be hell to deflect because of its huge mass. My though is to use...

It occurs to me that if we build a large fleet of robotic light-sail craft and have them fly close to L1 for the earth-sun orbital system. You can place them...

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There's not much on the web about the forerunner hotel on Luna which will be necessary for driving space tourism to drive Lunar development so I started a site...

Speaking of revolutionary propulsion, why is there no news on two such systems; the magnetoplasma sail and pulse detonation engines? PDE research got a 7...

Was thinking about how uninspiring it would be to design Orbitels. The moon's the thing. Realized that Lunar thinking has to be taken to the next stage, the...

A Public remotely operated lunarover would make a lotttt of money and be cheap to start. There are teleoperated webcams on earth so it's not rocket science. ...

Well that would be the first thing *I* would do now that O'Keefe is gone.

http://www.flatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060622/NEWS02/606220341/1007 Foam would threaten shuttle rescue BY TODD HALVORSON FLORIDA TODAY June 22,...

http://www.dailybreeze.com/business/articles/1278887.html Friday, February 18, 2005 Launch woes undermined space program The Aerospace Corp. By Muhammed...

The main topic is about navigation on the way to the moon, but there's a fair amount about the overall program. Since the presentation is dated 28 Jan 2008, it...

There's a buncha very interesting material in the recently avaiable http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve03/ch3 ASAT, satellite...