Category Archives: NASA

Reality and Future

Jeff Greason is a rational person who simply gets it. It is mind boggling how completely opposite from someone like Mike Griffin he is. See Jeff’s presentation with the Augustine Panel. Paraphrasing, “we could go to Mars with Ares V … Continue reading

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My Letter to the Augustine Panel

In the previous post. – I’ve been very tired and felt completely unable to have any effect on my life or on any other things for the last five days or so. This doesn’t mean that I’ve felt lazy – … Continue reading

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Heavy Lift Unnecessary

There are a lot of implicit assumptions that heavy lifters of this or that throw weight must be used for future exploration beyond low Earth orbit. These “needs” have never been logically derived from anything. Yet space policy and exploration … Continue reading

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Hydrocarbon Scramjet Already Flown

By ATK in 2005. Shows how little I know. EDIT: Spaceref had the details, Mach 5.5. (Scramjets are still not a space application.)

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Flexible Path for NASA Exploration

Haven’t read it yet, but I wrote about something similar (and not in name only) a few years back.

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Experts on the Internet, X-33, Gigaprograms and Real Progress

Experts on the Internet A lot of internet discussion is ignorant speculation, rumor spreading, ranting and flaming. But that’s not all. The freedom and self-organizing nature of enables massive diversity. Newsgroups, mailing lists, IRC, forums, Twitter – and sometimes there’s … Continue reading

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Augustine Panel Session 1, comment 3

It seems ULA finally got out in the public with their opinion on how long and what it would take to launch manned stuff or Orion with their rockets. It only took four years, laboring under threatening and suppression.  What … Continue reading

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The Panel's First Session, Comment2

The future is shaping as we watch. Senator Nelson pointing out how little there is money and how past budgets have been very unrealistic. I will bet on the following: ISS will continue beyond 2015. There will be a no … Continue reading

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First big thing

I think it’s Doug Cooke, presenting NASA things to the panel: Key exploration objectives slide: 2. To ensure sustainability, development and operations costs must be minimized Oh my. Next thing: [these things] “drives you to heavy lift”. Excuse me? EDIT: … Continue reading

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Augustine Panel First Hearing

Ongoing. Norm Augustine You can stream NASA TV with VLC, just paste this link into it: http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx

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