Eleven of the weirdest solutions to it.
Actually, I continue to prefer this one.
Category Archives: Space
NASA’s Technical Report Server
Has Frank Wolf shut it down?
As the emailer who sent me the link notes, “I understand the need for an ITAR review, however, what we have so far is a blanket ban, with no prescription in place for when and how this issue will be resolved. In the meantime NASA’s vast archive of technical information, so vital to the commercial and private sector has vanished in a single day.”
So where in the days of sequester is NASA going to find the funds to review the data and get it back on line? Just more ITAR madness that has cost the US space industry billions over the past decade and a half.
[Thursday morning update]
More over at NASA Watch.
[Bumped]
Slaying The Dragons Of Mars
Stewart Money has an interesting essay on progress in understanding the risks of a Mars flight:
This most recent experience brings to mind another observation Zubrin made in The Case for Mars, once it was foreseen that the oceans could be crossed, people of the era did not wait for the advent of iron plated steamships, they raised sail and headed out into the unknown with what they had available ”iron men in wooden ships.”
Why should we do any less?
Why indeed?
[Cross-posted at Safe Is Not An Option]
“Pay Now Or Pray Later”
Columbia’s Lessons
Jeff Foust has an article at today’s issue of The Space Review on the recent meeting to remember the failure on the tenth anniversary, with a lot of discussion of the topics of my book.
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The book is up at Amazon
[Late afternoon update]
OK, they’ve got the cover up now, and the reviews look good. I just told them to take them off the web site.
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A Moondance
…from low earth orbit.
Twenty To Forty Saturn Vs
That’s what this professor from my alma mater thinks it will take to do a mission to Mars.
I obviously disagree, not that I’m that big a fan of Mars missions. I’m always disappointed at whom the press thinks is an expert on space policy. At least he’s an engineering professor, and not a “scientist.”
Projection
Gee, Jason Rhian seems to be trolling his own web site.
That’s quite the list of straw men.