Category Archives: Space Policy

Rollerthroat Pump

Posted on October 25, 2008 by johnhare

guest blogger john hare [Saturday afternoon post change. Argh. While replying to Marcus, I realized that this post could be considered Monday Morning Quarterbacking at its’ worst considering the loss just experienced by Armadillos’ team. I respect that team and … Continue reading →

Posted in Space Policy, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

ITAR and Immigration

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Jonathan Goff

Immigration is one of those topics that I don’t like to think about, because the current mess we have in this country tends to just get me depressed.  Earlier today, I saw a flowchart from Reason’s October 2008 issue showing … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Space Policy | 12 Comments

Partial Rocket Reuse Using Mid-Air Recovery: A Review

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Jonathan Goff

A few days ago, I mentioned that some of my friends at ULA had passed me copies of some papers they were going to present at the Space 2008 conference a few weeks ago.  The paper I want to discuss … Continue reading →

Posted in Commercial Space, Launch Vehicles, Space Development, Space Policy | 35 Comments

Random Thought: Mass NASA Spaceflight Externships

Posted on May 31, 2008 by Jonathan Goff

I just had a crazy thought this morning, that while probably unworkable–we’d probably all be better-off if 99% of government policy proposals were sent directly to the paper-shredder–might be a way to start extricating NASA from it’s current manned spaceflight … Continue reading →

Posted in Air Force, Commercial Space, NASA, Space Policy | 13 Comments

A Point Worth Repeating

Posted on April 19, 2008 by Jonathan Goff

Over on Jeff’s SpacePolitics site, there is a discussion going on right now about a recent poll on the relevance of space. While much of the discussion was interesting as usual, I particularly liked the point made by a fellow … Continue reading →

Posted in NASA, Space Development, Space Policy | 29 Comments

Additional Thoughts on the SA’08 Propellant Depot Panel

Posted on April 4, 2008 by Jonathan Goff

It’s been long enough since I put up the presentations from the panel, that I figured it would be worth starting a new post to mention some of my thoughts on what we discussed on the panel. Some of these … Continue reading →

Posted in Commercial Space, NASA, Propellant Depots, Space Development, Space Policy | 20 Comments

Space Access 2008 Propellant Depot Panel

Posted on March 31, 2008 by Jonathan Goff

I’ll update this after work with some commentary (and sometime in the next week or two, I’ll see if I can upload a video of the session as well). But for now here are the four presentations that were given. … Continue reading →

Posted in Commercial Space, NASA, Propellant Depots, Space Policy | 6 Comments

Sustainability

Posted on March 10, 2008 by Jonathan Goff

A statement in this post by Clark Lindsey (and a further comment by Gary Hudson) on Hobbyspace reminded me why I’m somewhat uncomfortable with the term “sustainability” as it regards space exploration. I think the danger stems from how ambiguous … Continue reading →

Posted in NASA, Space Development, Space Policy | 5 Comments

Marburger’s Speech

Posted on March 8, 2008 by Jonathan Goff

There’s been a lot of discussion over the past few days about OSTP Director John Marburger’s speech at the recent Goddard Memorial Symposium, but there were a couple of good points that I felt deserved repetition, and I also had … Continue reading →

Posted in Commercial Space, ESAS, NASA, Space Development, Space Policy | 17 Comments

Next Generation Exploration Conference 2 (Part I)

Posted on February 16, 2008 by Jonathan Goff

Apparently unbeknownst to most people in the space blogosphere, there was a second space related conference going on in Silicon Valley this past week (at about the same time). This conference, the second “Next Generation Exploration Conference” was an invitation-only … Continue reading →

Posted in Commercial Space, NASA, Space Development, Space Policy | 1 Comment