Category Archives: Space Policy

LM/Bigelow Atlas V Deal

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Jonathan Goff

For those who didn’t see it on Hobbyspace, I got interviewed yesterday by New Scientist about the recent LM/Bigelow announcement. All in all it was a pretty good article (though apparently we might need to update our website to reflect … Continue reading →

Posted in Bigelow Aerospace, Commercial Space, Launch Vehicles, Space Development, Space Policy | 7 Comments

Discussion of Dr. Griffin’s STA Comments on ESAS

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Jonathan Goff

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in ESAS, Launch Vehicles, Lunar Commerce, NASA, Politics, Space Development, Space Law, Space Policy | 4 Comments

It’s The Journey That Matters, Not The Destination

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Jonathan Goff

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, … Continue reading →

Posted in Lunar Commerce, NASA, Space Development, Space Policy | 8 Comments

Orbital Access Cat Skinning Methodologies

Posted on November 13, 2007 by Jonathan Goff

In order to discuss the business, finance, and policy approaches for creating low cost and reliable space transportation, it helps to have an understanding of the underlying technology, in order to provide context for those discussions. It also happens to … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Economics, Launch Vehicles, Orbital Access Methodologies, Space Development, Space Policy, Space Transportation, Technology | 4 Comments

DIRECT v2.0 and Orbital Propellant Transfer

Posted on September 22, 2007 by Jonathan Goff

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Launch Vehicles, Lunar Commerce, NASA, Space Development, Space Policy, Technology | 5 Comments

I For One Welcome Our New, Scaly Overlords…

Posted on July 21, 2007 by Jonathan Goff

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Economics, Launch Vehicles, Space Policy | 17 Comments

Not in Our Stars

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Jonathan Goff

Wayne Eleazer has an excellent article over on The Space Review this week, that I highly recommend. He talks a lot about the question “why manned space exploration”. I think the points he makes about stunts and programmatics is dead … Continue reading →

Posted in NASA, Space Policy | 8 Comments

Benefits of Orbital Propellant Transfer: Adaptability, Capability, Etc.

Posted on April 24, 2007 by Jonathan Goff

[Editor’s note: A good friend of mine from Santa Clara, Henry Cate, is starting up a Carnival of Space. I’m usually not a huge fan of blog carnivals, but I think this is a creative idea, and wanted to support … Continue reading →

Posted in Launch Vehicles, Lunar Commerce, Space Development, Space Policy | 13 Comments

Centennial Challenges

Posted on March 29, 2007 by Jonathan Goff

One of the talks given at Space Access last week, by Ken Davidian, was rather informative. Ken’s a contractor working with NASA on running the Centennial Challenges program. Now, I’m kind of biased toward the Centennial Challenges, I work for … Continue reading →

Posted in NASA, Space Policy | 8 Comments

Much Better

Posted on March 29, 2007 by Jonathan Goff

Sorry that I haven’t had much of the will to blog lately. It’s not that I’ve been too busy, just that I needed to recuperate a bit after the last several weeks. Anyhow, I wanted to link to the much … Continue reading →

Posted in Space Policy | 5 Comments