Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen
Posted in Commercial Space, Launch Vehicles, Lunar Commerce, Propellant Depots, RLV Markets on Apr 29th, 2010
It’s been a rather interesting month so far, and I’ve been under a bit too much stress lately to blog much, but I wanted to put up some of the presentations from the Propellant Depot panel I was on at Space Access this year. If I had found the time sooner I would also say [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 25th, 2010
guest blogger john hare Most concepts for the opening of space seem to fall into a few scenarios, most of which invoke the major infusions of cash and risk from one source. Some seem to be so focused on one object, be it Mars, Moon, or SPS that they are willing to risk everything (that [...]
Posted in Administrivia, Family on Apr 20th, 2010
We’re about to head up to Utah for a family vacation, and I found this while downloading pictures off the camera:
Posted in NASA, Politics, Snark, Space Policy on Apr 16th, 2010
I know I shouldn’t take anything Mark Whittington writes seriously, but I want to write about a stupid meme that smarter people than Mark have also been bandying about–that somehow Obama’s budget proposal would surrender our leadership in space to the Russians and Chinese. I’m going to dignify this silliness with an attempt at a [...]
Posted in Administrivia on Apr 6th, 2010
Going to be heading out of town for the annual Space Access conference. With Dave out of town this week, that means I’ll either be sleeping down in Mojave tomorrow night, or riding with someone straight to Phoenix. I’ll be on two panels, one on Thursday evening covering “High Payoff Technologies in LEO and Beyond”. [...]
Posted in Technology on Apr 1st, 2010
I read an interesting article yesterday on Valterri Maja’s blog (Gravity Loss) about a new class of hydrogen-based materials being researched out at the University of Es sen and a few other locations. Apparently they found a method for lining up the electron spin of the hydrogen atoms in a way that allows the magnetic [...]