Amateur rocketry group (ERPS, the Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society, at www.erps.org) working on liquid fuel rockets

mwallis | 5 Jan 1998 01:27

VentureStar Info

> From Space News This Week -- Jan. 5, 1998
>
> VentureStar Configuration Has Scant Room To Grow
>
> A new configuration for Lockheed Martin Skunk Works' VentureStar
> reusable launch vehicle (RLV) assumes "extremely small" weight margins
> that leave little room for growth, according to an internal NASA
> Advisory Council report. The projected development cost also was so low
> that it "startled all of" the NASA Advisory Council subcommittee members
> charged with reviewing it.
>
> Despite such challenges, the revised VentureStar design has
> "considerably more credibility" than previous iterations and the "best
> chance of success" for "a reasonably economic single-stage-to-orbit
> vehicle," states the Dec. 9 report by NASA's Space Transportation
> Subcommittee VentureStar task group.
>
> The company plans next month to hold a system requirements review of
> VentureStar, a proposed commercial successor to NASA's X-33 RLV
> prototype. The larger reflects lessons being learned in the X-33
> program.

   Michael

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Michael Wallis                                   <A Href="http://www.wallis.com">http://www.wallis.com</a>
President, Wallis International                     mwallis <at> wallis.com

Walt Disney: 
               "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

(Continue reading)

mwallis | 10 Jan 1998 02:43

Rock(et) and Roll

I wonder if anyone was doing stuff at the Ranch Thursday? The USGS
reported a 3.2 earthquake near Patterson!

MAG  DATE  LOCAL-TIME   LAT    LON    DEPTH     LOCATION
     y/m/d    h:m:s     deg    deg      km
--------------------------------------------------------------------
3.2 98/01/08 15:12:24  37.38N 121.30W   4.2  11 mi SW  of PATTERSON

As far as I know it wasn't us.		

	Michael

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Michael Wallis                                   <A Href="http://www.wallis.com">http://www.wallis.com</a>
President, Wallis International                     mwallis <at> wallis.com

Jay Cuccia: 
"The secret to a happy marriage is to live each day as if it were your
last, but each night as if it were your first."

mwallis | 23 Jan 1998 23:22

Next Meeting - 27 Jan 98

The next meeting of the Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society will be
held this Tuesday evening at Round Table Pizza starting at 8:00pm.

Items for meeting #127 (27 Jan 98):

       A/D Box Update 
       Still Update
       Rocket Ranch Update
       Winter Test Schedule
       Black Adder II Parts List

I'll also have some videos of past tests and a TV/VCR for viewing.

Upcoming test dates:  01/02 Feb 98 - See erps-test notice.

The address is:

       Rount Table Pizza
       El Camino & Grant Road

This Round Table Pizza is in the plaza on the SE corner of El Camino
Real and Hwy237/Grant Road. The location is in the concourse behind 
the Burger King. The sign is up now. If you stand near the Burger King 
with your back to El Camino, the Round Table is at about 10 o'clock, in 
the corner of the plaza.

   Michael

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Michael Wallis                                   <A Href="http://www.wallis.com">http://www.wallis.com</a>

(Continue reading)

mwallis | 26 Jan 1998 23:00

Study Calls for Creation of Space Tourism Office

> From Space News This Week - Jan. 26-Feb. 1, 1998

Revisions to the U.S. National Space Policy that would spur creation of
a large space travel and tourism business are recommended in an
as-yet-unpublished NASA-funded study.

The study also calls for creating a space travel and tourism office at
NASA headquarters.

"General Public Space Travel and Tourism," prepared by the Space
Transportation Association, also recommends NASA use the shuttle fleet
and the U.S. portion of the space station to conduct tourist research
and development.

	Michael

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Michael Wallis                                   <A Href="http://www.wallis.com">http://www.wallis.com</a>
President, Wallis International                     mwallis <at> wallis.com

Coleman Orr: 
        "Ability is important, but dependability is critical."

hvanderbilt | 26 Jan 1998 23:44

Picon

RE: Study Calls for Creation of Space Tourism Office

I understand that release of this study has been delayed a couple of weeks;
NASA didn't like the version delivered to them.  It'll be interesting to see
if the conclusions remain as reported...

-------- Original Message --------

From: mwallis <at> ceres.wallis.com
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 14:00:06 -0800 (PST)
To: Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society <erps-list <at> LunaCity.com>
Message-id: <WFS3.T34CD0906.2AF6 <at> LunaCity>
Subject: Study Calls for Creation of Space Tourism Office
Sender: erps <at> LunaCity.com
Reply-to: Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society <erps-list <at> LunaCity.com>
References: <199801262200.OAA27665 <at> ceres.wallis.com>
Organization: LunaCity BBS - (Clan Zen Relay Network) Mountain View, CA
X-Mailserver: Waffle File Server (WFS), Release 3.2.ag
X-Article: 1184

> From Space News This Week - Jan. 26-Feb. 1, 1998

Revisions to the U.S. National Space Policy that would spur creation of
a large space travel and tourism business are recommended in an
as-yet-unpublished NASA-funded study.

The study also calls for creating a space travel and tourism office at
NASA headquarters.

"General Public Space Travel and Tourism," prepared by the Space
Transportation Association, also recommends NASA use the shuttle fleet
and the U.S. portion of the space station to conduct tourist research

(Continue reading)

shadow | 27 Jan 1998 18:53

Picon

RE: Study Calls for Creation of Space Tourism Office

That's the Tom Rogers-Space TRansportation Study. Hmmm. You might
ask Eric Stallmer what got censored....

Aleta

-------- Original Message --------

Return-path: <erps <at> lunacity.com>
Received: from mr.bix.com by bix.com (CoSy3.46) id
<9801261730.memo.2827 <at> BIX.com>; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:30:27 -0500 (EST)
Received: from bos1d.delphi.com ("port 28583" <at> bos1d.delphi.com [199.93.4.4]) 
by mr.bix.com (BIX mail 1.0); Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:30:27 -0500 (EST)
Received: from hustle.rahul.net ("port 2621" <at> [192.160.13.2])
by delphi.com (PMDF V5.1-8 #23839)
with SMTP id <01ISUA4VO5RK8YX6Q9 <at> delphi.com> for shadow <at> mr.bix.com; Mon,
26 Jan 1998 17:30:26 EST
Received: from LunaCity.UUCP by hustle.rahul.net with UUCP id AA10424
(5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for shadow <at> bix.com); Mon, 26 Jan 1998 14:30:21 -0800
Received: by LunaCity.com (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Mon,
26 Jan 1998 14:07:05 -0800 (PST)
From: mwallis <at> ceres.wallis.com
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 14:00:06 -0800 (PST)
To: Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society <erps-list <at> LunaCity.com>
Message-id: <WFS3.T34CD0909.26A7 <at> LunaCity>
Subject: Study Calls for Creation of Space Tourism Office
Sender: erps <at> LunaCity.com
Reply-to: Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society <erps-list <at> LunaCity.com>
References: <199801262200.OAA27665 <at> ceres.wallis.com>
Organization: LunaCity BBS - (Clan Zen Relay Network) Mountain View, CA
X-Mailserver: Waffle File Server (WFS), Release 3.2.ag

(Continue reading)

hvanderbilt | 28 Jan 1998 07:20

Picon

RE: Study Calls for Creation of Space Tourism Office

Oh, I was just being pessimistic about what changes NASA might want.
When I spoke to Eric, he said it was just the wording of a few things
here and there NASA wanted fixed.

erik | 28 Jan 1998 11:38

Picon

RE: Study Calls for Creation of Space Tourism Office


  Yes, and I'm very interested in finding a copy when it's available.

  When and where will that happen?

jdurand | 28 Jan 1998 15:06

In search of Kurt Bohan

Kurt,

Please call me at my client MediaGate sometime during the day, they have 
some work-related questions.

Jerry

MediaGate number:  408 248-9495 x109

-------------------------
Jerry Durand
Durand Interstellar, Inc.
tel:  +1 408 356-3886
fax:  +1 408 356-4659
jdurand <at> interstellar.com

hvanderbilt | 28 Jan 1998 15:43

Picon

RE: Study Calls for Creation of Space Tourism Office

The STA/NASA tourism report is supposed to be out in about two weeks,
according to Eric S.

Group

gmane.technology.erps.

Search Archive

Page

1 | 2

Articles in period: 12

January 1998

Language

Change language

Options

Current view: Threads only / Showing only 20 lines / Not hiding cited text.
Change to All messages, whole messages, or hide cited text.

Post a message
NNTP Newsgroup
Classic Gmane web interface
XML

XML

RSS Feed
List Information

About Gmane

Recent entries

Unable to attend mtg (5 Sep 2006)
Next Meeting ... (30 Aug 2006)
Next Meeting ... (30 Aug 2006)
[Fwd: The fate of a recent Dnepr rocket launch.] (15 Aug 2006)
Hesbola rockets (3 Aug 2006)
Minutes of ERPS #313 (3 Aug 2006)
Mars peroxide (1 Aug 2006)
Free peroxide! (1 Aug 2006)
Next Meeting ... (30 Jul 2006)
Canyon fire (17 Jul 2006)
E.R.P.S. Annual Meeting (8 Jul 2006)
Next Meeting ... (8 Jul 2006)
Fwd: VISION FOR SPACE EXPLORATION EXPERIENCE -- JULY 27-30 (28 Jun 2006)
Stanford On The Moon Conference (23 May 2006)
H2 fuel cell toys (19 May 2006)
Sparging (16 May 2006)
Congress Passes H-Prize (16 May 2006)
Congress Passes H-Prize (11 May 2006)
Orbiter 2006 released (10 May 2006)
Annual Meeting - Sat, May 13th - Mountain View, CA (10 May 2006)
Centennial Challenges finally gets a competition going: moon lander si (9 May 2006)

Archives

4	September 2006
14	August 2006
9	July 2006
1	June 2006
43	May 2006
17	April 2006
12	March 2006
10	February 2006
1	January 2006
1	December 2005
6	November 2005
4	October 2005
6	September 2005
1	August 2005
7	July 2005
10	June 2005
9	May 2005
10	April 2005
5	March 2005
10	February 2005
27	January 2005
33	December 2004
28	November 2004
63	October 2004
19	September 2004
69	August 2004
42	July 2004
118	June 2004
137	May 2004
66	April 2004
54	March 2004
41	February 2004
67	January 2004
56	December 2003
47	November 2003
212	October 2003
215	September 2003
96	August 2003
76	July 2003
157	June 2003
368	May 2003
107	April 2003
154	March 2003
507	February 2003
210	January 2003
198	December 2002
350	November 2002
241	October 2002
214	September 2002
326	August 2002
345	July 2002
2193	June 2002
14	May 2002
236	September 2001
690	August 2001
226	July 2001
318	June 2001
170	May 2001
244	April 2001
652	March 2001
440	February 2001
391	January 2001
529	December 2000
137	November 2000
193	October 2000
68	September 2000
50	August 2000
211	July 2000
253	June 2000
334	May 2000
157	April 2000
104	March 2000
96	February 2000
48	January 2000
119	December 1999
46	November 1999
47	October 1999
61	September 1999
27	August 1999
118	July 1999
175	June 1999
364	May 1999
92	April 1999
218	March 1999
82	February 1999
81	January 1999
61	December 1998
79	November 1998
177	October 1998
96	September 1998
82	August 1998
19	July 1998
31	June 1998
19	May 1998
7	April 1998
11	March 1998
9	February 1998
12	January 1998
16	December 1997
5	November 1997

Design

Zawodny | Right Menu | Left Menu

Your Own Design

Paste the URL of your CSS below. Download CSS template