Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen
Posted in Bigelow Aerospace, COTS, Commercial Space, ESAS, Launch Vehicles, NASA, SpaceX on Dec 3rd, 2009
I didn’t have a chance to watch either of the House subcommittee hearings today, so I’m grateful that Clark linked to the testimonies of the various witnesses. I really enjoyed reading Brett’s testimony, and thought one of his points in particular is worth repeating.
To me one of the more interesting points is found at the [...]
Posted in Commercial Space, Launch Vehicles, Space Transportation, Thrust Augmented Nozzles on Dec 2nd, 2009
I want to clean out some of the Skribit suggestions that I’ve been neglecting for a while. Some of these may end up somewhat brief, but I wanted to at least try to be responsive.
Drop Tanks to Enable SSTO?
I don’t like drop tanks. While they do definitely make the rest of the SSTO [...]
Posted in Space Transportation, Technology on Dec 2nd, 2009
Kirk sent me the link to these yesterday, but I didn’t have time to blog them yet. These should hopefully give you a better idea of what we’re talking about. If you have time, the other videos on his youtube channel are pretty interesting as well (though I imagine some of them will be talked [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 2nd, 2009
Reading about the financial meltdown in Dubai prompted me to do some reading on the construction of the famous artificial islands in Dubai that have so greatly increased its shoreline:
Wikipedia: Palm Jumeirah
Wikipedia: Palm Islands
The first of these, the Palm Jumeirah, consists of a trunk, a crown with 16 fronds, and a surrounding crescent island that [...]
Posted in Administrivia on Dec 2nd, 2009
Just wanted to introduce a new blogger here on Selenian Boondocks: Kirk Sorensen. The name should be familiar. Kirk is a longtime commenter here, and has been the inspiration for many of my posts (he was the one who came up with the Boom Rendezvous material I blogged about last month, and was [...]