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Old August 23rd 17, 02:17 AM posted to sci.space.science
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Default Neuffer Rings

On Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 7:17:14 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Tuesday, May 2, 2017 at 7:44:32 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at 11:28:32 AM UTC-7, wro

te:
On Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 7:43:47 AM UTC-4, wr

ote:
I know this is a very old thread but wondering if any of you are st

ill
around. Bruce Neuffer was my father in law. I have the original paper t

hat
he wrote on the Single Stage to Orbit vehicle. I had never heard of it

unti
l after his death.


Wish I'd checked back regularly! Shortly after I posted this, another

pos
ted plea resulted in a colleague of your father-in-law sending me a cop

y of
the original paper. But it would still be nice to talk to someone else

who
knew him.

John Koch


Bruce H. Neuffer (1923-1982) developed the SSTO space station concept w

hile
at General Electric. He is buried at Beulah Baptist Church Cemetery, B

oaz,
Marshall County, Alabama https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?pag

egr&GRid(698852. I think that his concept will prove to be far more impo
rtant to the future of humanity than just about any other, and I was pr

oud
to publicize his design in my novel.

The Pulpless.com edition of Kings of the High Frontier is long gone, bu

t it
was the first electronic-format novel to win a major literary award (P

rome
theus). A hardback, limited edition came out in 1998. Copies can occasi

onal
ly be found on eBay.

The Neuffer Ring is prominently displayed on the cover of the forthcomi

ng e
pub version of KOTHF. The illo is by renowned space researcher/historia

n/en
thusiast Tom Brosz (who first turned me on to Neuffer). The book is not

bei
ng updated, but should now be considered a #rocketpunk #alternatehistor

y #s
pace #scifi thriller. :-)

Here is the cover for the new edition: https://twitter.com/KoPubCo_Info

/sta
tus/854004338988949504

And yet there is still no Wikipedia article on the Neuffer Ring. Maybe I

should start one.

The Pulpless.com edition is not too far gone, I still have mine (and a pr

int version too!)

Great book! Thanks Victor!


Thank you! I've been working on the ePub version for months. Hope to get it
done soon. I had to change the X-15A2 upgrade scenes (Larry Poubelle's Dae
dalus Project) because now I could access a rocket-equation tool on the int
erwebs and realized it did not have enough oomph to go orbital, so... Eugen
Sänger skip-glide circumnavigation of Earth!

And, yes, I have all the old HTML Pulpless.com files of the book. But since
I tweaked even that for the Final Frontier edition, I had to take the Word
edition and convert it to XHTML. Luckily, I've worked with CSS and XHTML f
or years in my former Real Job. --Victor