Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen
Posted in Lunar Commerce, Uncategorized on Sep 24th, 2008
by guest blogger Ken Wow, so all of the chickens are coming home to roost and those who created the problem want to fob the guano off on the public at large. Anyone who has been reading my postings since the beginning of the year knows how I feel about the situation, especially since I [...]
Posted in ESAS, International Space Collaboration, Lunar Commerce, NASA, Space Development, Space Transportation on Jul 16th, 2008
I don’t have time to go into detail at the moment, but I wanted to relay an interesting paper that Keith Cowing reported on NASAWatch today. Now, if I were someone at the ESA, I’d probably be taking NASA’s grand plans about Constellation with an appropriate sized grain of salt right about now. But there [...]
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 ESAS, Launch Vehicles, Lunar Commerce, NASA, Politics, Space Development, Space Law, Space Policy on Jan 25th, 2008
I’ve had several people in several places ask me if I was going to do a point-by-point rebuttal of Mike Griffin’s comments to the STA this week (for reference the text of his comments is available here). While I don’t have the time to go into every single disagreement I have with what he said, [...]
Posted in Lunar Commerce, NA, NASA, Space Development, Space Policy on Jan 19th, 2008
The story broke yesterday that a group of scientists, astronauts, and other space enthusiasts is going to be meeting at Stanford next month to discuss an alternative to the Vision for Space Exploration. Clark and several others have already commented, but I figured I ought to throw in my two cents. Basically, I’m skeptical. While [...]
Posted in Launch Vehicles, Lunar Commerce, Technology on Jan 1st, 2008
[Note: I came up with this idea a couple of weeks ago, but it got left on the backburner over the holidays. Oh, and welcome to anyone coming here from the Carnival of Space.] One of the biggest mixed blessings of lunar transportation is the lack of an appreciable atmosphere on the moon. While this [...]
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 Launch Vehicles, Lunar Commerce, Space Development, Technology on Sep 15th, 2007
It’s been a long time since I last blogged. Between being busy at work, starting into another book series with Tiffany (one of our favorite traditions is reading good books together), and trying to raise two increasingly active and silly little boys, I haven’t had much chance to provide a lot of bloggy goodness lately. [...]
Posted in Lunar Commerce, Space Development on Aug 1st, 2007
Since the end of the Apollo program, and the analysis of all the samples returned from those expeditions, the orthodox view of the moon has been one of dreary, dusty, homogeneity. Oh, there were things like Mascons, and your occasional magnetic anomaly to spicen things up somewhat, but the Moon was thought to be for [...]
Posted in Lunar Commerce, Space Development, Space Law on Jul 25th, 2007
Tankmodeler, a friend and regular here at Selenian Boondocks, mentioned something in a comment to Ken’s last post that I think deserves some mention: [T]he one absolutely key stumbling block is ownership of Lunar mineral rights. No-one is going anywhere unless they know, rock solid, that they will own what they find. If space advocates [...]