Moon Capital: A Commercial Gateway to the Moon
On 21 September 2010, the Moon Capital Competition will accept entries for the architectural design of an international and commercial lunar habitation. One category is "Let's Get Serious" and another is "Let's Have Fun".
Do NASA and NewSpace Need Destinations and Deadlines?
Do the new public and private sector partnerships in space infrastructure development require closer collaboration?
Let's Stop Pretending We Can Establish Human Outposts Beyond Earth Orbit
We're not ready! It's time for ISS research on human life support, development and testing of commercial space transport, robotic technologies, and lunar rovers as pathfinders.
We Need Cheaper Access to Space: Can It Be Done?
.jpg.renditions/NASAbudget(2)_thumb.jpg)
What's really behind Obama's revised strategy for NASA? Why is Bolden solidly behind it and convinced that his team, with commercial space partners, can make it happen?
“I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help”
NASA will be the ideal "Collaborative Customer" for Commercial Space Services as they become available. But what will it require for the Agency to assume that role?
Dramatic Improvements Can Be Made in Spaceflight Safety
Horizontal launch vehicles can utilize aircraft style flight safety characteristics. But risks in these emerging vehicles, especially during development and flight testing, due to rocket propulsion, extreme speeds/altitudes, and aerodynamic heating, warrant a real escape system.
