John Hare has some interesting speculations on how a Masten/XCOR team might reduce costs to orbit.
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XCOR Update
I’m seeing tweets from the ISDC that Jeff Greason is saying Lynx rollout and flight tests are about a year from now.
This is interesting:
XCOR has plans to develop an orbital vehicle.
Jeff has been saying that he has some ideas along those lines. I wonder how much he’s revealing publicly?
[Update a while later]
A lot more XCOR tweets over at Space Transport News.
The Latest Masten Video
This is way cool. It looks like it tosses itself up, and then catches itself with the thrust.
We Are So Fortunate
…to have a president wise enough to know how much money we should all have.
For all these wealth gluttons, I have a suggestion: stop earning any more money for the next two years. Since most of you voted for him anyway, grant the president his wish. Stop.
Withdraw all your money from all investments. Shutter your stores, restaurants, factories, movie studios, banks and financial brokerages. Evict all tenants from your apartment buildings and shopping centers, and board the buildings up. Invent nothing, bring no products to market, write no books and hire no one. Stop adding to your unjust, unfair, beyond-the-point income or wealth. Take a vacation. File next year’s federal, state and local tax returns with big, fat zeroes written on the payment-due lines.
While you’re at it, buy as little as possible too. After all, at other times, the president has indicated he thinks many of us keep our homes too warm or too cool, drive around too much (on under-inflated tires), eat too much salty food, buy ‘Cadillac’ health plans that are too good. He has a point of too much in mind about everything. He is the Decider of your too-much. Everybody at the too-much point could relieve him of a lot of worry by spending nearly nothing for the next two years.
I wonder if he thinks he has enough, or too much?
We Are Doomed
Some cheery thoughts from Marc Faber.
Shocked
Only a Harvard professor could be surprised that when government grows, private enterprise shrinks. Well, OK, that’s not fair. Lots of schools could have professors who would be shocked at that. And at least the business school professor finds it concerning.
The Cooked Books
The country is being run by blatant liars and charlatans.
[Update a few minutes later]
So, now the Donkeys and “liberals” think that “ObamaCare” is a pejorative? When did that happen? I thought that once they passed it, we were all going to love it. Now they don’t want to take creditblame for it?
I like the suggestion of one commenter that we call it National Socialist Healthcare.
Prepare To Be Shocked
California’s insane “go it alone” “green” energy policy is going to damage the state’s economy. But the idiots keep going into the voting booth and reelecting these morons.
“Little-Noticed”
Actually, many of these things were noticed at the time by people who actually read the bill. Which of course doesn’t include most of the people who voted for it, one of whom told us we’d have to pass it to find out what was in it. Here’s hoping that she’s not running the House next January.
An Interesting Team
Masten and XCOR have announced a strategic partnership:
Masten’s award winning automated vertical take off, vertical landing (VTVL) flight vehicles combined with XCOR’s strong experience in liquid oxygen (LOX) / methane powered propulsion systems and nonflammable cryogenically compatible composite tanks, brings to NASA a powerful and competitive combination of innovative talent with a proven record of producing exceptional results quickly and affordably.
So does this mean that Masten is going to focus on the vehicles, and let XCOR provide propulsion systems? And is this just for the NASA lunar lander work? Guess I’ll have to talk to Dave and Jeff to find out.