President Bush is increasing the funding for SDI in the current budget
cycle, and I wonder why I was expelled from graduate school at the
University of Texas at Austin recently, when my research was on the
same ballistic targeting problem they have been having so much trouble
with for the missile defense system. I had passed all the courses for
a Ph.D in orbital mechanics, passed my written qualifying exams, and
had completed most of my research. I was a semester away from getting
my doctorate, and they expelled me ~ with malice, I dare say.

UT Austin's Aerospace Engineering Department is one of the major space
research groups, especially with the Center for Space Research on
campus. You would think they would be very intrested in my research,
which also had applications for the Mars missions. (Actually, it was
an optimization of the Earth to Mars trajectory, which fundamentally
is the same as the Earth based missile trajectory problem, all you do
is change a couple of constants in the code.)

It really makes me wonder if this SDI funding will have the same
outcome as President Reagan's "Star Wars" project that spent $1
trillion and accomplished absolutely nothing.

You can find details on my research on my web page at the publications
link.

Bill Clark
http://home.austin.rr.com/whcii/