In other news: Interesting rumor that Warren Buffet may be involved.
And if that credible and brilliant scientist said it was realisitic, then how come we don't have Orions blasting off to Mars and Saturn every day?
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
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.
It certainly looks like an American effort to return to the Lunar Surface to me.
we don't even know if it is even going to be a manned lunar landing.
Quote from: aquanaut99 on 12/03/2012 05:41 amwe don't even know if it is even going to be a manned lunar landing.Yes we do.
>- Bigelow hab, because they're already involved with SpaceX and because they're the only inflatable game in town>
Quote from: QuantumG on 12/03/2012 05:43 amQuote from: aquanaut99 on 12/03/2012 05:41 amwe don't even know if it is even going to be a manned lunar landing.Yes we do.Have you heard the official announcement yet? Because I sure haven't.
The Sun has now picked this uphttp://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4677877/Richard-Branson-moon-trip-plan.html
There's been a whole lot of nonsense in this thread the last few pages I'm not even sure who's sarcastic anymore.
Quote from: go4mars on 12/02/2012 04:17 amQuote 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. For the Planetary Resources PR event they named investors but refused to provide any budget figures, which can lead one to wonder if a few ultra-wealthy people gave them a token donation just for fun, or in order to get them to go away. That their total headcount is only something like two dozen and they need to find peripheral sources of revenue to keep the lights turned on suggests that they could be operating on a shoestring.Just a few years ago, in 2008, there was the announcement by Galactic Suites that they would have a space hotel in LEO by 2012, with the modules constructed by EADS Astrium. However, that was total news to Astrium, which denied any knowledge of the projecthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Suite_Design If Golden Spike can priovide real budget figures then it could be an indication that they are real, which would be a welcome change from the usual snake oil cures for futuritis.
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.
Simply by dropping a few names, it is possible to make the most unlikely and outlandish proposals sound respectable and newsworthy.
Quote from: joek on 12/02/2012 01:11 am[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.Where do you think the Augustine request for an additional $3B per year for NASA came from? Someone correct me if my numbers are slightly off, but the ISS was not in the NASA budget beyond 2015, so they killed Constellation in order to have money to keep ISS alive long enought to provide a justification for CCDev. In addition, shuttle budget overruns also cut into Constellation's very limited development budget. At least that is the way Wayne Hale tells it:http://waynehale.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/6/(I can fully empathize with anyone who thinks it is foolish to spend all that money on the ISS and only use it for a few years. Even so, I am not sure that LEO is a meaningful objective for NASA. To quote our great leader, "We've been there before." )
[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.