Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen
Posted in Launch Vehicles, Orbital Access Methodologies, Space Transportation, Technology on Jun 27th, 2008
While I have the topic fresh in my mind, I decided to jump into the next part of my continuing series. Though it wasn’t a conscious choice on my part, I notice that the order I went with for this series actually follows a consistent pattern. In each part of this series, we discuss methods [...]
Posted in Commercial Space on Jun 16th, 2008
I’m sure by now, most of you have heard about Len Cormier’s passing. He’s my second friend I’ve lost to cancer within the past two or three months. Len was a great guy–the first person who ever offered me a job in the space transportation business. He was unfortunately, way ahead of his time when [...]
Posted in Launch Vehicles, Orbital Access Methodologies, Space Transportation, Technology on Jun 16th, 2008
Some of the comments to my last post got me thinking about what I’m trying to accomplish with this series. The reality is that each of these approaches that I’m discussing could easily fill a full chapter in a textbook, complete with 20-30 pages of text, tons of graphs, equations, sample designs, detailed discussions of [...]
Posted in Launch Vehicles, Orbital Access Methodologies, Space Transportation, Technology on Jun 14th, 2008
This third installation in my Orbital Access Methodologies series (parts I can be found here, and part II here) has been a long time in the coming. It has taken so long, not because I’ve been spending months researching and analyzing the topic (I knew most of what I wanted to say back in January), [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 6th, 2008
by guest blogger Ken Is the fact that unless we get more women interested in and supportive of moving this species out into space, then it’s going to take a lot longer and be far more difficult than it otherwise has to be. Polls have consistently shown women to be much less interested in things [...]
Posted in Commercial Space, Lunar Commerce, Space Development, Space Transportation on Jun 5th, 2008
Other than a busy schedule at work over the past several weeks, and ongoing blogger’s cramp, one of the other big reasons why I haven’t been blogging very much lately is that Tiff and I started reading together again. This is an old tradition of ours that we started back when we were poor newlyweds [...]
Posted in Administrivia on Jun 4th, 2008
I just noticed that sometime yesterday my sitemeter ticked over the 200,000 visits mark. Now, admittedly I didn’t install the sitemeter until after the site had been up for a month or so, so I actually passed that milestone a while ago. While I was thinking about that number, I noticed that I’m coming close [...]
Posted in Jonny Bloggin on Jun 4th, 2008
Spaceman Spiff inspects his rocketship: Spaceman Spiff prepares to enter the cockpit: Spaceman Spiff asks “So when do we put engines on this bad boy?”
Posted in Commercial Space on Jun 3rd, 2008
For several years, I’ve had a sort of fanciful list going. The theory being that when some group I’m part of succeeds in fielding the first commercial orbital RLV, or the first commercial manned lunar lander, there’s a list of people that (if I have any say in the matter) have earned themselves a free [...]