Total Members Voted: 42
Voting closed: 12/16/2017 02:47 am
Quote from: Lar on 11/16/2017 06:39 pmThe author is a US politician (wannabe?) I agree, though, it does leave out everything else (and the UN and other international bodies such as the WHO, the postal union, etc...). You could start another thread if you were so inclined.A Washington D.C. lobbyist actually (see his early posts).
The author is a US politician (wannabe?) I agree, though, it does leave out everything else (and the UN and other international bodies such as the WHO, the postal union, etc...). You could start another thread if you were so inclined.
Quote from: RonM on 11/16/2017 03:53 pmQuote from: woods170 on 11/16/2017 06:29 amDisappointing thread this. As if the USA is the only country capable of enabling space settlement (I speak as someone from Europe).You're missing the point. This thread is about US government agencies participation, not the concept of space settlement. If the US doesn't participate, then other nations can lead the way.No, I'm not missing the point. Had the involvement of other-than-US-agencies been considered the thread title would have been something like this:"Space Agencies and Space Settlement". The "US" part would have been left out.Despite the name "NASASpaceflight.com", this site and its forum are about everything spaceflight worldwide. Not just the USA. The ludicrous focus of this thread on US space agencies does not fit well within the international scope of this forum.
Quote from: woods170 on 11/16/2017 06:29 amDisappointing thread this. As if the USA is the only country capable of enabling space settlement (I speak as someone from Europe).You're missing the point. This thread is about US government agencies participation, not the concept of space settlement. If the US doesn't participate, then other nations can lead the way.
Disappointing thread this. As if the USA is the only country capable of enabling space settlement (I speak as someone from Europe).
Thanks for that explanation. I think an open ended discussion might have done better at eliciting useful infomration than a poll "posted without comment" that didn't have this background, causing floundering.
I am tempted to rephrase the question. I get the impression that people are presuming this is a "when space settlement is happening, what organization from the US government should be involved?" However, my main intent is to ask what agencies should be about enabling space settlement RIGHT NOW. Not 50-100 years in the future, but right now.
I took the question as: when it becomes apparent that Elon isn't just blowing smoke and really intends to put humans on Mars, which government agencies will suddenly become interested in space settlement in a big way?
I am tempted to rephrase the question. I get the impression that people are presuming this is a "when space settlement is happening, what organization from the US government should be involved?" However, my main intent is to ask what agencies should be about enabling space settlement RIGHT NOW. Not 50-100 years in the future, but right now. In that context, there are a lot of activities that we need to be considering. A few examples1) How do we position spaceports/ranges so that they can be launching multiple launch vehicles daily?2) How do launch regulations need to evolve as you move to RLVs and a marketplace that has much more launch on demand?3) Can we enable the development of markets that would serve a broad marketplace of users for lunar transportation, micro-gravity R&D/production, satellite servicing, satellite communications, etc? My point isn't to have a discussion of some form of property rights, but how and where do we start asking the question of making space settlement happen. I've asked similar questions in the past - for example, what programs does NASA have going on that are settlement enabling right now? Does SLS/Orion enable settlement? ISS? Commercial Crew? Etc.