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October 10, 2015 at 8:27 am “The more ambitious your space aspirations become, the more it makes sense to look carefully at using space resources. To me, this gets to the real debate behind the debate. Arguments over whether to use lunar resources or not really break down into one’s long-term desires for space—permanence versusContinue reading “Letters to Paul again”

“-the skills and technologies needed to acquire and use off-planet resources-“to launch tons of water from Earth is to completely miss the point of attempting it—we are learning how to “cut the umbilical cord”- Excerpts from Paul Spudis’ article in Air and Space Magazine. Any dialogue with the NewSpace sycophants presently hijacking the discussion aboutContinue reading “Letters to Paul”

Op-ed | Humanity’s Outpost on the Edge LEO is “90 percent to anywhere in the solar system.” What a farce. And I am banned from making any comments on this site. http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2774/1 “For better or worse, the Apollo and shuttle days are gone, forever. But that is not a bad thing. We now have privateContinue reading “Propaganda”

Click to access Lunar_resources_review_preprint_accepted_manuscript.pdf The naysaying that is thrown at any comments on the internet made about using lunar resources (ISRU) is quite amazing. Figure 10 in the recent paper on lunar resources is one simple way to slap such foolishness down.

By Gary Michael Church Triton is my favorite moon and it is so far out there I always think about how long it would take to get there. Earth escape velocity: 11.2 km/s If each H-bomb can impart 100 mph then 1000 bombs can provide 100,000 mph. Using this figure for travels to icy bodiesContinue reading “Interplanetary Missions”

Gary Michael Church The dirigible airship, the Zeppelin, may well spell the end of the satellite industry within a decade or two. Using new technology to make safe (with a double hull nitrogen ignition barrier), manipulate, and utilize the hydrogen lifting gas, these airships are the ultimate telecommunications platforms. The superiority of these stationary platformsContinue reading “The Coming Zeppelin Satellite Apocalypse”

Gary Michael Church In my view Paul Spudis has the correct solution; he has on several occasions written about a “Space Navy” as a separate agency. Having been in on the birth of the Department of Homeland Security I know this is not impossible. The DHS was brought into existence and I was made aContinue reading “Amazon Women on the Moon”

Gary Michael Church The cosmic ray rat story is probably an important benchmark in the history of spaceflight that very few people are picking up on. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150501151608.htm As a troubleshooter I see clearly the flow chart on Human Space Flight-Beyond Earth and Lunar Orbit (HSF-BELO) does not have many branches. Dashing back and forth throughContinue reading “Cosmic Ray Rats”

By Gary Michael Church By the end of the decade the first Gnome mission was launched. The bunker buster H-bombs were all successful in excavating artificial caverns. In concert SLS wet workshop missions carrying robot landers arrived in lunar orbit one after another at eight to ten per year. The robots descended onto ice depositsContinue reading “Back to the Moon”

Gary Michael Church edited 2024 The methodology for civilization expanding into space is to be found in a triad of indispensable human endeavors: defense, communications, and energy. Nuclear deterrence has precluded a third world war for three quarters of a century. Telecommunications technology has provided a stabilizing continuity instrumental in preserving this relative peace. TheContinue reading “Seven Steps to Space Travel”