In NASA Country, Doubts About Gingrich’s Moon Base Plan
Updated: 2012-01-31 14:18:13
, 01 news 02 sub orbit 03 orbit 04 moon 05 planetary 06 environment 07 video search daily spaceflight news today's moon quarter Tuesday 31 January 2012 Book your flight Space travel is right around the . corner Let Moonandback get you on . board Sign up . now News In NASA Country , Doubts About Gingrich’s Moon Base Plan by gerald rich AUSTIN , Texas Last Wednesday , Jan . 25th , GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich vowed that if he’s elected , America will have a permanent base on the moon by his second . term But for members of Texas’ Houston-based aerospace industry , Gingrich’s childhood dream one he hopes to make a reality by 2020 is a plan unlikely to take off , especially given the country’s economic concerns , and the fact that NASA ended its manned space flight program in July 
Skip to content Parabolic Arc Space Tourism and Much More News Search Archives Parabolic Reading List Polls Archive Alan Boyle , Dennis Wingo Drop by The Space Show Scaled Composites Installing Engine in SpaceShipTwo Posted by Doug Messier on January 31, 2012, at 5:44 am in News Tags : Masten Space Systems space tourism space tourists SpaceShipTwo virgin galactic XCOR Comments : no responses 0 Comments Michael Belfiore was in Mojave a couple of weeks ago for Popular Mechanics His latest piece has updates on various projects that are not nicknamed : Birdzilla The new ship has begun atmospheric test flights , launched into free fall from its WhiteKnightTwo mother ship at 50,000 feet . Both vehicles—SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo—were in various states of disassembly on my visit—the mother
This image of the zodiacal light was taken by Felipe Gallego on January 23, 2012 near the natural park of Sierra Norte de Sevilla in Spain. Zodiacal light appears as a faint, diffused, triangular, white glow extending up from the vicinity of the Sun along the ecliptic or zodiac. Ideally, zodiacal light can be seen [...]
An amazing panorama revealing Western Europe’s ‘Cities at Night’ with hardware from the stations robotic ‘hand’ and solar arrays in the foreground was captured by the crew in a beautiful new image showing millions of Earth inhabitant’s from the Earth-orbiting International Space Station (ISS). The sweeping panoramic vista shows several Western European countries starting with [...]
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skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 30, 2012 Minirailguns for commerical nuclear fusion update HyperV Technologies is trying to develop minirailguns for the world’s first commercially viable fusion reactor . technology Their research could result in the development of a controlled hot fusion reactor that is scalable to provide between 100 MW and 2,000 MW of clean base load electric power . There was a 20 page presentation from June of 2011. Imploding Plasma Liners as a Standoff Driver for Magneto-Inertial Fusion They are firing milligrams of plasma at 140 times the speed of sound . The commercial energy generating version will fire the plasmas at 285 times the speed of sound . The breakeven nuclear fusion facilities will cost less than 100 . million
As the bright Mars-crossing asteroid 433 Eros makes its closest approach to Earth since 1975, astronomers around the globe are taking the opportunity to measure its position in the sky, thereby fine-tuning our working knowledge of distances in the solar system. Using the optical principle of parallax, whereby different viewpoints of the same object show [...]
Exoplanet discoveries are happening at a frenetic pace, and some of the latest newly discovered worlds are sometimes described as “Earth-Like” and “potentially habitable.” The basis of this comparison is, in many cases, based on the distance between the exoplanet and its host star. Unfortunately the distance between a planet and its host star is [...]
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 30, 2012 An Affluent earth based civilization with all clean energy would still warm the planet by 3 degrees celsius Rising greenhouse gases are causing roughly 380 Terawatts less heat to escape from the atmosphere . Result : the planet is warming . The warming due to the 16 Terawatts from waste heat produced by humans is tiny in comparison . If the demand for power grew to 5000 Terawatts , it would warm the planet by 3 . C If 9 billion people all became affluent at about 430,000 per person , then the energy utilization would reach the level of 5000 . terawatts The physics of energy production means that there will be waste . heat GDP per capita is strongly correlated to energy per . capita It would be a significant
As Cassini weaves its way around the multiple moons of Saturn, it’s not really a coincidence when one gets in the way of another. As a matter of fact, it’s a guarantee. These are called mutual events, and when Cassini dove past Dione, it saw this terrific view of Mimas peeking out from behind it: [...]
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 28, 2012 Space technologies that would help enable a more affordable Permanent Moon Base 1. Fuel depots 2-17 times more stuff to the moon or other space missions . Lowering costs for GTO closer to LEO orbit costs Boeing Propellant fuel depot 2. Lunar concrete would reduce the amount of material needed to build things on the moon by ten . times A 50 meter telescope could be built from lunar concrete with the mirror covered with a thin layer of aluminum . It could directly image any potential continents on planets around nearby stars with no atmosphere on the moon to distort the massive light gathering . area 3. Successful Big and cheap rockets by Spacex or others Spacex Falcon Heavy can bring launch costs below 1000 per
skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard January 27, 2012 China’s Provincial GDP Figures in 2011 and forecasts for 2012 through 2015 China Briefing 2011 Provincial GDP figures Wikipedia GDP per capita by province in . China Jiangsu Province’s GDP grew 9.2 percent to RMB4.8 trillion US$759 billion in 2011, according to the provincial government’s report . Jiangsu’s GDP per capita reached US$9,500. In 2012, Jiangsu 80 million Zhejiang 56 million Inner Mongolia 25 million should be over US$10,000 GDP per capita . They will join Shanghai 23 million Beijing 20 million and Tianjin 13 million with GDP per capita over US$10,000. Liaoning 44 million and Guangdong 105 million should get over the US$10,000 per capita level in 2013. Shandong 96 million and Fujian 37 million
David Appell, PhD and independent science journalist, has penned an article about the Space Elevator, partly based on his experience attending last year’s Space Elevator conference in Redmond.
At some point, it’s supposed to appear in the UK Magazine “Physics World” but you can read it now on his website. It’s a fairly comprehensive article.
And the [...]
The first issue of ISEC’s Space Elevator Journal is now here! Volume 1 / Number 1 (publication date - December, 2011) is hot off the presses and will soon be sent out to all ISEC members (past and present) and Journal contributors.
The Journal consists of 8 peer-reviewed Papers plus some additional articles that I think [...]
The National Space Society (NSS) is proud to announce that LtCol Paul E. Damphousse USMC (Ret) has been named Executive Director effective January 1, 2012. The appointment of LtCol Damphousse coincides with the 25th anniversary of the 1987 merger of the National Space Institute (NSI) and the L5 Society to form the National Space Society.
“Since [...]