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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
Posted in Architecture, Demotivation, Depot, ESA, Global, industry, ISRU, Lunar, Motivation, NASA, RLV:s, Spacecraft
Tagged Augustine, Depot, HSF, Jeff Greason, NASA
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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
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
Posted in Architecture, Demotivation, Depot, industry, ISRU, NASA, RLV:s
Tagged Augustine, Depot, NASA
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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.)
Posted in airplane, engines, industry, NASA, RLV:s, Suborbital
Tagged atk, hydrocarbon, hypersonic, scramjet
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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.
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
Posted in Architecture, industry, NASA, RLV:s, Spacecraft
Tagged Atlas, Augustine, Delta, EELV, Gass, orion, ULA
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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
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
Posted in Architecture, industry, Models, NASA, RLV:s, Science Links, Spacecraft, Uncategorized
Tagged Augustine
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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
Posted in Architecture, Depot, Models, NASA, RLV:s, Science Links, Spacecraft, Suborbital
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