Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen
Posted in Business, Launch Vehicles, Lunar Commerce, NASA, Space Development, Space Policy, Technology on Sep 22nd, 2007
Several people have already brought up the DIRECT v2.0 architecture paper that was rolled out at AIAA Space 2007 this last week, as well as the snazzy new website that the DIRECT team just launched. I just wanted to give a few of my own thoughts. First off, I really got a kick out of [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Launch Vehicles, Space Policy on Jul 21st, 2007
Well, it looks like Rand and Clark and Jeff are too busy blogging about the New Space conference to start synthesizing things yet, so I’ll just make some comments on the big news from yesterday. In case you don’t read Space Transport News every morning like most of the rest of us, it was announced [...]
Posted in Business on Apr 6th, 2007
I just wanted to put a quick word for a symposium that’s going to be held in conjunction with ISDC this year that I thought some of you might be interested in. It’s called the Space Venture Finance Symposium, and it will be held on May 24th (the day before ISDC begins). Details and registration [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Launch Vehicles on Mar 3rd, 2007
A commenter on my post about Soyuz launches from Kourou raised the question of whether launch prices would really drop with an increase in flight rate. This question may be due to discussions about a report prepared for NASA by a Dr Hertzfeld of GWU that was discussed on the Space Show last year. I’ve [...]
Posted in Business, Lunar Commerce, Space Development on Mar 1st, 2007
I typically don’t get a chance to listen in on the Space Show too often. I work long enough hours that when I get home I typically don’t have a 1.5-2hr chunk of time where I can set aside for personal time. However there was a talk this week about orbital propellant depots given by [...]
Posted in Business, Space Policy on Mar 1st, 2007
Here’s an interesting one I saw over on Space Law Probe: the SPACE Act of 2007. Now, I’ll be the first to admit that in spite of being rather vocal about space policy, I’m not exactly the kind of space activist who goes out and writes his congressman all the time. In fact, I’m not [...]
Posted in Business, Religion, Space Development on Dec 28th, 2006
Something Mark said in reply to my last blog post reminded me that I’ve been wanting to write an article about the importance of faith in enterpreneurial endeavors. Mark states that (emphasis mine): But there is no proof that any plan…will advance the day people return to the Moon by even a year, not to [...]
Posted in Business, COTS, NASA, Space Development on Dec 23rd, 2006
One of the cutsie phrases that the current NASA Administration likes bandying about regarding their approach to exploration is “Pay As You Go“. Kind of like O’Keefe’s “spiral development”, this pithy phrase is the latest fad at NASA. The basic philosophy behind “Pay as You Go” being that instead of coming up with an actual [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Lunar Commerce, Space Development on Dec 22nd, 2006
I just read a very interesting article on the Ludwig von Mises Insitute website, that got me thinking a bit about how to better explain my thoughts about how I think lunar markets will pan out. There are a lot of good points made in this article and I’m not sure I’ll get a chance [...]