...NASA's Space Solar Power Program... Let's Make America Great Again!

Thanks in advance for reading.

President Obama is currently deciding on a new direction for NASA.
Right now is the time to make our opinions known.

Below is the NASA program President Bush canceled shortly after
taking office in favor of his "Vision for Space Exploration".
Which seeks to return men to the Moon to build a colony that
can support only...four...people, for only a...week..at a time.
What tangible returns would that provide to the taxpayers?

I strongly hope NASA returns 'back to the future' and embrace
Space Solar Power as a primary goal. This program has the potential
to transform the world for the better in more ways that can be listed.
Which a moon habital for four astronauts could never hope
to rival.

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Space Solar Power could.....

(1) Make American the next energy "Saudi Arabia"
Ensuring our future prosperity and national security.
Ending wars over oil.
(2) Provide a completely clean, endless supply of energy
which could replace fossil fuels and become the primary
solution to Global Warming.
(3) Provide a government payload which could jump start
the commercial space industry much like the US Air Mail
ushered in the age of commercial aviation.
(4) Provide energy to places around the world where conventional
power plants are unaffordable or not practical.
(5) Solve America's largest and most glaring weakness, our dependence
on oil. Eliminating the power the Middle Eastern nations have
over us.

Just to name a few of the potential benefits of Space Solar Power.
How do those compare to the current Bush plan of putting a
few people on the Moon?

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NASA's SPACE SOLAR POWER EXPLORATORY RESEARCH
AND TECHNOLOGY (SERT) PROGRAM

Executive Summary

"The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Space Solar Power
(SSP) Exploratory Research and Technology (SERT) program was
charged to develop technologies needed to provide cost-competitive
ground baseload electrical power from space-based solar energy converters.
In addition, during its 2-year tenure, the SERT program was also expected
to provide a roadmap of research and technology investment to enhance
other space, military, and commercial applications such as satellites operating
with improved power supplies, free-flying technology platforms, space
propulsion technology, and techniques for planetary surface exploration."
"Central to the SERT program was a series of five or six experimental flight
demonstrations of progressively larger power-generation capacity"
"For each of the major SSP subsystems, NASA managers developed
top-level cost targets in cents per kilowatt-hour (kW-hr) that they felt
would have to be met to deliver baseload power at a target of
5 cents/kW-hr."
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10202&page=1


President Bush's Vision For Space Exploration
http://history.nasa.gov/Vision_For_S...xploration.pdf


Why in the world would a ..Texas oilman, President Bush, oppose
Solar Power as a solution to our future energy needs???

Please write your Congressmen and urge them to support
Space Solar Power as a new more sensible goal for NASA
and our future. The decision on a new goal for NASA is
being decided RIGHT NOW, your email can certainty
make a difference.

Thank you for reading.

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Jonathan

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