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Scottsdale - Sep 17, 2003This gripe began as ironic nostalgia when 21st Century reality paled in comparison to the projections of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Lately that claim has devolved into a favored lament of grumpy old men in the space community, whose stubborn refusal to acknowledge society's priorities threatens any real effort to advance our presence in space, writes John Carter McKnight Space Exploration And Tourism Need Shuttle To Fly Again 
London - Sep 12, 2003Future space exploration and tourism need Shuttle to fly again, says Professor Book for great Earth views, the Moon and Mars but leave the stars to your dreams |
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Not Culture but Perhaps a Cult 
Aug 30, 2003"I do not believe there is a NASA culture other than a willingness by its engineers to work their butts off to keep us in space. It might be said, however, that there is a Shuttle cult. It is practiced like a religion by space policy makers who simply cannot imagine an American space agency without the Shuttle. Well, I can and it is a space agency which can actually fly people and cargoes into orbit without everybody involved being terrified of imminent death and destruction every time the Shuttle lifts off the pad," writes October Sky author Homer Hickam. Another Modest Proposal for the Future of the Hubble Telescope 
by Steven B. CampbellHouston - Sep 01, 2003 A recent article in SpaceDaily.com explored the possibilities for servicing the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) by Shuttle, Orbital Space Plane (OSP) or Soyuz. There are problems with all three of those contingencies, not the least of which is that the OSP hasn't even been designed yet. The Gravity of History 
Tharsis - Aug 28, 2003 (Terran Style)Earth made its closest approach to Mars in modern history. If the brilliant blue-green star in our late evening skies means anything to us Martians, it is precisely that history whose tidal pull we can never escape. Looking upward, we find ourselves looking backward, to our own origins in the time of the last great planetary opposition nearly three hundred years ago, muses John Carter McKnight. Faster, Cheaper, and More .. Metric? 
Tokyo - Aug 21, 2003In his SpaceDaily op-ed "Columbia: The Legacy Of Better, Faster, Cheaper", NASA veteran Raymond Anderson suggests that a policy of "Faster, Better, Cheaper" (FBC) was at the root of the Columbia disaster. At first I thought he must have gotten his slogans mixed up somewhere -- surely, FBC was only for the unmanned missions? It turns out I'm behind the times, and haven't kept up with the confusion. FBC originally meant something. Now, it means everything , and consequently, nothing, writes Michael Turner. A Leader Out Of Time Speaks 
Los Angeles - Aug 20, 2003In my previous article, I asked the important question, "Is The Air Force The Enemy Of Space?" Now, having answered that question in the affirmative, I will go on to talk about a man who was, in my opinion, the real father of Apollo, and of Zeus as well (as in Nike-Zeus). Is The Air Force The Enemy Of Space? 
Los Angeles - Aug 20, 2003In the Profile section of the July 14, 2003 issue of Space News was the very telling interview with Gen. John P. Jumper ("Space As A Means -- Not An End In Itself.") Pictures From An Expedition 
Scottsdale - Aug 20, 2003Our culture seems determined to erase the line between entertainment and reality, a trend to which not even drier-than-old-toast space missions are immune writes John Carter McKnight. |
Can A Soyuz Service Hubble And Save A Bundle
Sacramento - Aug 20, 2003The tragic destruction of Columbia, of course, has had a tremendous impact on NASA's plans both to finish building and to resupply the International Space Station, and the ultimate solution to this is nowhere near being defined yet. Congress Should Cut Red Tape Grounding Reusable Rockets 
Los Angeles - Aug 11, 2003The Space Frontier Foundation congratulates Congress for taking the first steps to opening space to the public by holding hearings on regulatory barriers that may well ground an entire new spaceship industry before it even gets to fly. A Migration To Outer Space
Los Angeles - Jul 22, 2003The space program here in the USA is enormously expensive. Just to launch a Shuttle costs around 200 Million dollars, all told (estimate). An army of contractors must swarm all over the vehicle and boosters, mating everything together. Why Space Matters Today 
Los Angeles - Jul 22, 2003In the news recently was a statement by Klaus Toepfer, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), where it was stated that said "China's aim of quadrupling its economy by 2020 can only occur if developed nations radically change their consumption habits to free up scarce resources for the world's poor." As an further example (from the article on CNN.com) Should America Rule the Heavens? 
Scottsdale - Jul 11, 2003My previous column, on military contractors in Iraq as likely developers of space infrastructure, set off a firestorm of controversy. Along with mindless ideological flaming and some equally mindless ideological praise, several readers wrote in to present thoughtful analytical challenges to my views. From various perspectives, they addressed the question, should America rule the heavens asks John Carter McKnight. Has Humanity Already Shot Their (Space) Bolt 
Ottawa - Jun 30, 2003The 1960's was an euphoric decade for space enthusiasts. Starting from almost nothing a program to carry members of humanity to Earth's Moon was designed and built. After this great step, the subsequent decade saw not only the end of human travel to outer-space but another less glamorous but more telling event, writes Mark Mortimer. NASA Must Adopt An Economic Development Mindset
San Clemente - Jun 25, 2003We have sacrificed seven brave explorers and billions in taxpayers' dollars on our un-focused and vacillating "on again - off again" space effort. NASA and its cartel of large aerospace companies that dominate the American space "market" are trapped. They have traded leadership and accomplishment for institutional survival and the extraction of a paltry annuity from aged technology. Are they still capable of leading us to the high frontier? |
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