http://rocketforge.org Thoughts on space, politics, and business Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:23:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en or "How a Democrat out-Republicaned George Bush on Space Policy Two links that help with the background: A Space Program for the Rest of Us Towards a Conservative Space Policy Just to get it out of the way early: I'm a conservative leaning libertarian with the street cred to prove it. I helped organize ... http://rocketforge.org/?p=470 Thought experiment: Are their Near Earth Asteroids you can get to with what you can fit as a secondary payload in a PPOD? http://rocketforge.org/?p=467 I'm watching the House Committee on Science and Technology's hearing on the Augustine Committee's summary report. This committee hearing is a complete cluster fuck. Mr. Augustine has repeatedly said that Constellation would make a good program if it had the extra $3 billion. He even said that Ares I is ... http://rocketforge.org/?p=464 So the Augustine Commission published their Summary Report today. At this point the food fight is beginning. ATK and other contractors are starting to spew FUD faster and harder than Microsoft ever did. The question we have to address now is how to make sure the Obama Administration picks the ... http://rocketforge.org/?p=459 Apparently the American Astronomical Society is meeting today and is currently discussing "planethood" and the future of Pluto. I gave some thought to this last year and decided to post it here for comments. The idea is to move away from defining something as a planet or not and simply ... http://rocketforge.org/?p=455 (In case you're not a UNIX geek, the title of this article is the search and replace function in VI) The official action that creates something like the Augustine Commission is the publication of a notice in the Federal Register. That happened yesterday and can be found here. The stated ... http://rocketforge.org/?p=448 Glenn Reynods linked to How David Beats Goliath and had this to say about it: Is getting active in every Congressional district kind of like a full-court press? But don’t wait for elections: “Insurgents operate in real time.” Give ‘em something new to react to all the time. But it’s not ... http://rocketforge.org/?p=444 This time of year I usually get a few requests from aerospace students about how to get into the business. Some have usually talked to someone who is convinced that aerospace is a dead end business. Over time I've developed a few themes that I'll list here: Old vs New I'm in ... http://rocketforge.org/?p=436 As some on twitter surmised, I was involved in organizing one of the America's Tea Party protests last week here in Atlanta. Many of the people who attended (in the pouring rain!) had never done a protest like that. We had about 250 people come out with only 5 days ... http://rocketforge.org/?p=432 CPAC 2009 started today. Conservatives/Republicans from around the country are meeting to figure out what happened over the past 8 years and what to do about it. In many cases they are assuming that there is something "wrong" with conservatism and that it may need to be re-invented. ... http://rocketforge.org/?p=427