You have heard about planetary resources and the first commercial flight
to the ISS by the Dragon spacecraft from SpaceX. Is this a new step
forward into commercial space exploration? Or a step back into the
orbit? The first man landed on the moon already 40 years ago. I am just
reading
It depends on what your implicit and explicit goals are.
If you start from 'efficiently find out cool stuff' or 'more knowledge
is good' you get one kind of answer.
If you start from 'ask better questions and inform theory and
understanding' you get another kind of answer.
If you start from
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Jochen Fromm j...@cas-group.net wrote:
You have heard about planetary resources and the first commercial flight
to the ISS by the Dragon spacecraft from SpaceX. Is this a new step forward
into commercial space exploration? Or a step back into the orbit? The
This BEO?
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/03/dsh-module-concepts-outlined-beo-exploration/
I think we agree: let COTS take care of the current stuff now that the
shuttle is no more, and let BEO projects be NASA's goal.
-- Owen
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Carl Tollander
Yeah, that kind of BEO.
Or This:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/03/nasa-exploration-roadmap-evaluation-crewed-missions-asteroids/
I personally might prefer a bit more elbow room, but hey, one could
always go hang out in the SEV or the Orion between jaunts.
Folks like Bigelow could say
