More Golden Spike Thoughts
…from Clark Lindsey, with a lot of links.
[Early afternoon update]
Jeff Foust has a story at The Space Review.
The “Tax Cuts For The Rich”
Now that the election is over, they’ve morphed into middle-class “tax cuts.”
These demagogues are despicable.
The Racist Origins
…of gun control.
It’s not just a racist history. The policies advocated by the hoplophobes are murdering blacks in huge numbers today, in DC and Chicago.
Ever Wonder How Hitlers Happen?
You Know Who Has An Average 80 IQ?
Anyone who believes that this study is for real.
You Can Give A Boy A Doll
…but you can’t make him play with it.
And yet they continue to try to force him to. These people are nuts.
Pretend To Be A Time Traveler
Leftists
…are boring. Thoughts on Oliver Stone’s turgid new tome.
The Golden Spike Architecture
Here is a technical description. I’m reading through it now, so perhaps comments later.
[Update a while later]
Sorry, link is fixed now.
[Update late morning]
OK, I skimmed it. As one would expect, there’s a trade off between development costs and ops cost with regard to lander reusability. Ultimately, to get to low marginal costs, we have to not throw hardware away. I also wonder how much it would take to make the Centaur reusable over a period of months or years. They’ve got a start on it with the refueling scenario. Eventually, if one is getting propellant from the moon, that would make sense. I would have liked to see a trade between LLO and EML-1 or EML-2, though. It looks to me like they settled on LLO early on.
I’m amused that they have to defend their costs as being “too low.” They look high to me (a hundred million for training?), but I have vastly different expectations about these things.