This week on The Space Show…. Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 7-8:30 PM PDT: We welcome back Dr. Robert Zubrin to discuss his Mars manned mission plans. Thursday, June 30, 2011, 9:30-11AM PDT: We welcome Jim Maser of Pratt Whitney to discuss aerospace workforce issues for the United States. Mr. Maser has received significant press regarding his thoughts and comments on this topic over the past few months. Friday, July 1, […]
Jupiter Direct Launcher Variants
Mars Society Founder Robert Zubrin has proposed something he calls the “transorbital railroad” to jump start space exploration and settlement. Although he invokes the railroads that opened up the West, it’s really a proposal known to anyone who has ever shopped at Costco: buy in bulk.
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MARS SOCIETY PRESIDENT ROBERT ZUBRIN
While the results obtained from the LCROSS mission are of some scientific interest, it needs to be understood that the amount of water discovered was extremely small. The 30 m crater ejected by the probe contained 10 million kilograms of regolith. Within this ejecta, an estimated 100 kg of water was detected. That represents a proportion of 10 parts per million, which is a lower water concentration than that found in the soil of the driest deserts of the Earth. In contrast, we have found continent sized regions on Mars, which are 600,000 parts per million, or 60% water by weight.
The Space Show for this week: 1. Monday, Nov. 2, 2009, 2-3:30 PM PST: Miles O’Brien returns. Miles is the former CNN Space & Technology news anchor and the latest member of the NASA Advisory Council. 2. Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, 7-8:30 PM PST: We welcome Dr. Jeff Hoffman, former astronaut. Dr. Hoffman helped carry out the initial repair/rescue mission for the Hubble Space Telescope, STS 61; December, 1993. 3. […]
Altair
The Orlando Sentinel reports that the Augustine Commission is narrowing its options on the future of America’s human spaceflight program:
The presidential panel looking at NASA’s human space program spent Wednesday narrowing nearly 900 exploration options into seven scenarios that will be refined for presentation to President Barack Obama later this month.
