A Return to the Moon by the Apollo 11 50th Anniversary.

heres more on the asteroid moving project, i think its a keeper since
it would help build info on moving killer asteroids in the future\

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...ons-orbit.html

yeesh, for a second, I was thinking "steampunks adapt original A11
platform."

it would help build info on moving killer asteroids in the future\

In article 76a986b6-99bc-452e-94f5-b4835553f473
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heres more on the asteroid moving project, i think its a keeper since
it would help build info on moving killer asteroids in the future\

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...ons-orbit.html

Despite the use of "project" in the article, this is only a proposal. I
doubt NASA will bite and actually fund it, considering the price tag.

Jeff
--
"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer

On Jan 3, 1:19*pm, Jeff Findley wrote:
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heres more on the asteroid moving project, i think its a keeper since
it would help build info on moving killer asteroids in the future\

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...plan-to-drag-a...

Despite the use of "project" in the article, this is only a proposal. *I
doubt NASA will bite and actually fund it, considering the price tag.

Jeff
--
"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer

NASA is looking for a reason to be. Espically since its loosing earth
to LEO transit. Falcon and others can handle that.

With ISS nearing its end of life a new pork piggie project is needed,
since mars is too far away, the moon is been there done that. And
deep space radiation will slow manned operations for a generation

On 2013-01-03 22:57:37 +0000, bob haller said:


NASA is looking for a reason to be. Espically since its loosing earth
to LEO transit. Falcon and others can handle that.

With ISS nearing its end of life

Isn't the stated end-of-life for ISS currently 2021? The 2028 date
being bandied about isn't official but unless Congress pulls the plug,
I expect the Station to be around 8-9 more years.




a new pork piggie project is needed,
since mars is too far away, the moon is been there done that. And
deep space radiation will slow manned operations for a generation

NASA is looking for a reason to be. Espically since its loosing earth
to LEO transit. Falcon and others can handle that.

With ISS nearing its end of life

Isn't the stated end-of-life for ISS currently 2021? *The 2028 date
being bandied about isn't official but unless Congress pulls the plug,
I expect the Station to be around 8-9 more years.



which is far beyond its design life expectancy, and costs a fortune to
operate

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, says...

NASA is looking for a reason to be. Espically since its loosing earth
to LEO transit. Falcon and others can handle that.

Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.

As much as I admire the progress SpaceX has made to date, this is not an
accurate statement. SpaceX has a very short track record and has not
yet flown a manned version of Dragon. Yes there are other commercial
crew programs running at other companies, but they've not flown yet.

With ISS nearing its end of life a new pork piggie project is needed,
since mars is too far away, the moon is been there done that.

Just because you saw an article about it in New Scientist does not mean
NASA is seriously considering funding this goofball idea.

Besides, NASA has their congressionally mandated pork project: SLS.
This proposal does nothing to support that project. In fact, it
diminishes its reason for existing. So politically, this one is DOA.
Congress wouldn't support it even if NASA did.

And deep space radiation will slow manned operations for a generation

This one is more of your chicken-little b.s.

"Deep space" radiation has been studied to death. The "hab" of any deep
space mission will need a "radiation storm shelter" which will be
surrounded by nothing more than all the water they're carrying for the
mission used as shielding. Sorry Bob, but there is already an
engineering solution to this problem. Is there still some risk to the
crew? Yes, but the risk is acceptable by reasonable people.

Jeff
--
"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer