Re: new space program

"Tell them you want to build this:
http://www.milnet.com/pentagon/hyper/v3c12-1.htm";

Aerospace planes are more expensive and ungainly than a simple
booster with ramjet assist. I can't imagine why such a vehicle hasn't
been designed long since.

"Then state that NASA might get back into the administration's good
graces if they could show some sign that they were still capable of
dynamic vision of even the smallest sort- and that a million dollar
research grant to examine your revolutionary new concepts in space
exploration, as well as a spanking new jet-black Lamborghini Gallardo
5.0 would be cheap insurance indeed to keep their phony-bologna
jobs...which apparently consist mainly of suckling at the government
money teat."

This is exactly the kind of thing I'd like to avoid. Actual reality,
though, as represented by a rejection letter from NASA headquarters
for a specific subproject, is that althoug my proposal was "ambitious",
it didn't cover topics like "risks, technology challanges,
manufacturing
challanges, radiation hardening".

Science is simple; beaurocracy can sure wear you down though.
Yeah, tell it to the high energy physicists.

martin dowd

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