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I finally seem to have ended mourning Dr. Spudis. It was a terrible blow losing him. On the bright side, the Toxic Dragon blew up yesterday. Hopefully it is one more nail in the coffin of Commercial Crew. It might finally be time to try and take this blog mainstream and start allowing comments. IContinue reading “Goodbye Doc”

After Apollo we accomplished “LEO return” which was both a step backward and a wrong turn. LEO stopped being space exploration after Apollo 8 left it far behind. Abandoning LEO in favor of funding “LLO return” is the right path to correct that near half a century old mistake. The three problems with LLO areContinue reading “Spudis Blog Comments for December 2017”

From Apollo 4 story: Dosing and debilitation are remedied with massive water shielding and tethers. Not really any other options except accepting dosing and debilitation which is….unacceptable. Trivializing these two most critical problems is the standard response but…obfuscation, denial, and misinformation is not going to fly when it is obvious radiation and zero gravity willContinue reading “More TSR Comments”

Jeff Foust has allowed me to post comments on his blog “The Space Review” and I have linked Ice on the Moon with those comments. I am in fact surprised none of the people replying to my comments have been here yet. They will come. Here are some of my comments from the review: “ItContinue reading “TSR Engine Wars comments”

We live at the bottom of gravity well that dictates design, analoguous to Feynman’s quote- “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.” This means that no matter how many sci-fi movies portray SSTO and no matter how many NewSpace infomercials scream cheap, “there is no freeContinue reading “More Comments for Dr. Spudis”

After watching this downhill slide into mediocrity for years I have to say in regards to space there is no truer maxim than “truth is stranger than fiction.” There are a short list of guiding principles concerning space exploration that are simply ignored in a bizarro manifestation of collective cognitive dissonance. They are simple truthsContinue reading “Letter to Paul”

Since she will not post any more of my comments on Space Policy Online, I will just have to post them here. In response to http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/news/bridenstine-releases-american-space-renaissance-act-welcomes-comment We will either choose to establish humans in space- to expand humankind off world- or we won’t. That is the choice and everything revolves around choosing to do soContinue reading “Letter to Marcia Smith”

RealSpace or NoSpace By Gary Michael Church The 1967 Apollo 1 fire was the key event leading to the end of the 1st space age before it really began. Anticipation by the aerospace industry of astronomical profits came to an abrupt end in one afternoon. It was not the three fatalities that doomed the spaceContinue reading “RealSpace or NoSpace”