Category Archives: Lunar Commerce

Lunar Tourism

Posted on April 5, 2007 by Jonathan Goff

For a long time, I’ve felt that translunar tourism was an interesting potential market, especially for guys like me who have the solution of propellant depots that is definitely searching for a problem. I was quite interested a few years … Continue reading →

Posted in Lunar Commerce | 2 Comments

Random Thought: Dragon + Sundancer = CEV?

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Jonathan Goff

In a lot of conversations I’ve heard over the past year or so regarding COTS and its implications, many people trying to downplay the role of COTS (and explain why Orion has to be so heavy that only the Stick … Continue reading →

Posted in Lunar Commerce, NASA | 15 Comments

The Next 50 Years: A Commentary

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Jonathan Goff

Earlier this morning an interesting article by Michael Griffin was posted at NASASpaceFlight.com in the L2 section. Apparently it was meant for Aviation Week, as it appeared on their blog there tonight (NASAWatch provided the link), which also means it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Lunar Commerce, NASA, Space Policy | 16 Comments

ESAS Thoughts

Posted on March 13, 2007 by Jonathan Goff

A recent comment on Space Politics got me thinking about ESAS again. I realized that I’m probably one of the most vocal ESAS critics in the blogosphere, and figured that it would therefore be worth trying to summarize a couple … Continue reading →

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More Thoughts on the Lunar Much Sooner Architecture

Posted on March 12, 2007 by Jonathan Goff

I did some tweaking of my Lunar Much Sooner architecture. The latest numbers are available here. The original post about this architecture can be found here. I’m still basing this on existing rockets and stages (with the only modification being … Continue reading →

Posted in Lunar Commerce, NASA | 2 Comments

Dallas Bienhoff Space Show Interview

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Jonathan Goff

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Lunar Commerce, Space Development | 8 Comments

Bigelow Shoots for the Moon

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Jonathan Goff

I’ll add some more commentary later, but for now a fascinating scoop by Alan Boyle.

Posted in Lunar Commerce | 11 Comments

DIRECT Update

Posted on January 13, 2007 by Jonathan Goff

A couple of weeks back, Doug Stanley (the guy who headed up the ESAS team) was a guest at the NASASpaceFlight.com forums, hosting a Q&A thread about the propellant studies they had been doing for the LSAM. This was right … Continue reading →

Posted in Launch Vehicles, Lunar Commerce, NASA, Space Development | 32 Comments

Reprint: On Castles and Foundations

Posted on January 10, 2007 by Jonathan Goff

[Note: Digging around on archive.org for my old Prometheus Downport Project stuff, I found this oldie but goodie that I felt was worth reprinting. My views on a couple of the topics have changed a bit over the past 15% … Continue reading →

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Subeconomics Resource Transformation and The Fallacy of Technological Stasis

Posted on December 22, 2006 by Jonathan Goff

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Economics, Lunar Commerce, Space Development | 17 Comments