Don't expect any coverage of [whatever this is] outside of enthusiast circles.
Ever since the nonsense flexible path "Missions to Nowhere" proposal I have been waiting for someone to wake up and realize that NASA needs a LANDER.
The mysterious company Golden Spike, which is said to be planning a privately financed expedition to the Moon (see previous posts here and here), will have a coming out press conference next Thursday at the National Press Club: Golden Spike Company Debut | The National Press Club - Golden Spike Company Debut December 6, 2012 2:00 PM News conferences Location: Bloomberg RoomI see that Bobby Block is their press contact person. He was a space reporter for the Orlando Sentinel and then left to work for SpaceX for awhile and was most recently with the CASIS organization, which organizes research projects for the ISS.
Quote from: Clark Lindsey I see that Bobby Block is their press contact person. He was a space reporter for the Orlando Sentinel and then left to work for SpaceX for awhile and was most recently with the CASIS organization, which organizes research projects for the ISS.
I see that Bobby Block is their press contact person. He was a space reporter for the Orlando Sentinel and then left to work for SpaceX for awhile and was most recently with the CASIS organization, which organizes research projects for the ISS.
If so, I will enjoy watching this enterprise fail.
Quote from: 2552 on 12/01/2012 07:13 pmQuote from: Clark Lindsey I see that Bobby Block is their press contact person. He was a space reporter for the Orlando Sentinel and then left to work for SpaceX for awhile and was most recently with the CASIS organization, which organizes research projects for the ISS.If so, I will enjoy watching this enterprise fail. While Mr. Block was at the Orlando Sentinel the newspaper waged war against NASA's plans to return astronauts to the Moon. The Sentinel won, which is why there are no plans for a U.S. lunar return.
Quote from: Nelson Bridwell on 12/01/2012 05:12 amEver since the nonsense flexible path "Missions to Nowhere" proposal I have been waiting for someone to wake up and realize that NASA needs a LANDER. NASA does not need one
Quote from: 2552 on 12/01/2012 07:13 pmQuote from: Clark Lindsey I see that Bobby Block is their press contact person. He was a space reporter for the Orlando Sentinel and then left to work for SpaceX for awhile and was most recently with the CASIS organization, which organizes research projects for the ISS.If so, I will enjoy watching this enterprise fail. While Mr. Block was at the Orlando Sentinel the newspaper waged war against NASA's plans to return astronauts to the Moon. The Sentinel won, which is why there are no plans for a U.S. lunar return. - Ed Kyle
But I have to agree that keeping the ISS alive for a few more years at the price of scrapping real missions to the Moon and then Mars, was a colossal blunder.
[But since you mentioned it... *POOF* ISS is dead and you now have ~$3.2B/yr for the foreseeable future (maybe, if the funds don't disappear off the "fiscal cliff"). As far as I can tell, that's still not going to get you very far towards "real missions to the Moon and then Mars" any time soon unless you also scrap NASA's DRM's.
Simply by dropping a few names, it is possible to make the most unlikely and outlandish proposals sound respectable and newsworthy.
Quote from: Nelson Bridwell on 12/01/2012 03:54 pmSimply by dropping a few names, it is possible to make the most unlikely and outlandish proposals sound respectable and newsworthy.Someone should send Freeman Dyson a text message.
Why, is Golden Spike planning on disassembling the Moon and building a Dyson sphere with it?
Apparently almost no one believe project Orion was realistic until a credible and brilliant celebrity physicist said it was possible.
Ed, I think you know that CxP had a weeee more problems than an annoying newspaper.