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Today at COMSTAC, Brant Sponberg mentioned that NASA was going to be releasing a “procurement synopsis” this week discussing the various commercial space station resupply options that NASA wants to explore. This isn’t the full-up RFP that we’ve been waiting for (that won’t be out till the end of the year, with a draft coming [...]

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Mark Trulson, one of the bloggers at the Out of the Cradle blog, just posted an interview they did with me. The interview provides a little bit more technical detail about XA-1.0, and my thoughts about the new Centennial Challenges that were announced back at the X-Prize Cup. He also asked me if I had [...]

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Hey all, just wanted to draw some attention to a new addition to the blogroll: Out of the Cradle. This is a blog with a bulletin board like system hooked up. There’s some good commentary over there that I wanted to comment on myself, but it’ll have to wait a bit longer till I actually [...]

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Now that I finally have some time to breathe, I want to wrap up my ACES conference summary. It turns out the guys at ACES and Innovation Labs were able to get full transcripts of the whole conference, including pictures, video, etc. up on their site already. Check out some of the snazzy ad-lib art [...]

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Once again a Sunday rolls around, and I realize it’s been a while since I put up any pictures of little Jon.

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Michael asked me to post this on my blog too to get the word out: At Return to the Moon 2005 I ran a panel where entreprenurial companies or projects that weren’t on the formal agenda could each have five minutes to outline who they were, what they were up to and if there was [...]

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Moving quickly along so that I can get it all up here for people to see before it is no longer relevant, the next session was the demand panel. Joe Pistritto, an investor in XCOR (who was supposed to be on the Capital panel, but had to head to the X-Prize Cup) gave his presentation [...]

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Before I continue with my ACES reporting, I wanted to bring up an idea that I had recently. A few days ago, both on Hobbyspace and on one of the mailing lists I was on, someone posted a link to this article about microwave thermal rockets. Now for some serious techno-nerdlichkeit. Their basic idea is [...]

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Now that I have a bit more time, I’ll continue with my long and painfully drawn out discussion of the ACES conference. After the first panel, and a quick lunch, but before the next panel, there was another keynote speaker, Dr Joan Vernikos. I got to work with her during a breakout Dr Vernikos is [...]

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After Phil’s intro, a keynote speaker, Nobel Prize winner, Dr Baruch Blumberg, started things off. Dr Baruch was one of the scientists who discovered a lot about how infectious diseases like Hepatitis B spread and his research led to the development of the first HepB vaccine, which has saved many lives. In an effort to [...]

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