wrote in message
oups.com...
Maybe we could do a commercial Skylab ?

Since the launcher exists, why not a single module, 100-ton class
commercial station.. ?

No costly assembly and with a 100 mass maybe you can keep the
consumable servicing to a minimum. Maybe build with ample design
margins and simple construction techniques.

Well : question, with the 125-t class launcher, assuming the Govt
builds two a year for its Moon missions, what else could be done ?



I'd like to see 'em launching things that will help us down
here on earth. Things like this.

Space Solar Power home.
http://spacesolarpower.nasa.gov/


We'd need the stick and heavy lift, and a large space station
if not several. It's conceivable that the US could someday
become the world's largest energy ....supplier....instead of
the largest importer. Not to mention the positive effects
on global warming that solar power brings. And wars
over oil? Isn't the dependence of fossil fuels the greatest
single threat to our future???

If not now.

Nasa's long term goals should revolve around the most acute
problems on earth. And since energy certainly qualifies ...and...
has it's ultimate solution in space, it's tragic that Nasa decides
that collecting more Moon rocks is the best they can do.

Nasa could do so much more if they only had some 'vision'.
They have a lotta nerve assigning that term to their new
space policy.


Jonathan

s