There has been an unnoticed earthquake at NASA. It’s a change so dramatic that one NASA insider calls it a “paradigm shift” and a “revolution.” What is it? For the last ten years, there has been a struggle within the space community over two different sorts of rockets. NASA has clung to a policy of building expensive rockets, using them once, then tossing them in the ocean. These throwaway rockets.. Read More
A 6-Part Program to Get to the Moon Fast
NASA has just announced a quick-look study of ways to get to the moon fast. The Space Development Steering Committee proposes a six-part COTS program that will get us on the moon to stay at a fraction of traditional costs and far faster than traditional NASA plans. What’s a COTS program? Traditional NASA procurement depends on cost-plus contracts, contracts that encourage aerospace companies to stretch the completion of a project to.. Read More
The SMIC is Muzzling the Space Community
There’s a lot of hesitancy in the space community. Timidity. Absolute unwillingness to go public with deep truths, truths that can be vital to America’s leadership in space. Three programs are killing America’s space leadership. They have amputated America’s ability to launch Americans to orbit on American vehicles for seven years. Ever since 2011, we’ve been forced to send Americans to the International Space Station on Russian Soyuz rockets. At a total cost of four.. Read More
The Space Development Steering Committee Launches an Online Petition to Save America’s Space Program
Three NASA programs are killing America’s manned and womanned space program: a rocket called the Space Launch System, a space capsule called The Orion, and a new mini-space station with a macro price, The LOP-G. These programs are bleeding $36 billion from NASA’s budget, money we could use to land on the moon to stay. Funds we need to begin the colonization of Mars. The Space Development Steering Committee is.. Read More
New US Space Force Must Be a Peace Force
On Monday June 18th, Donald Trump ordered the military to establish a sixth branch, a Space Force, the first new military branch to be created in 71 years. The Space Development Steering Committee proposes that this new force be used to encourage the constructive development of space, the development of space as a resource for nature and for all of mankind. In the near future, we will mine water and.. Read More
Will China Own The 21st Century?
China’s New Silk Road Versus America’s Platinum Highway in the Sky The 20th century was the American Century. But the Chinese are grabbing ownership of the 21st century with the most audacious global infrastructure project in history—their New Silk Road, otherwise known as the Belt and Road Initiative. This 20 trillion dollar Chinese transport-project is pulling together 65 nations and 4.4 billion people and is already making America look like.. Read More
Cities on Mars?
How close are we to building cities on Mars and bases on the Moon? The answer may arrive sooner than you think. Elon Musk is committed to planting cities on Mars. And when it comes to the Moon, Musk feels we should already have had a lunar base a long time ago. Cities on Mars are serious business. Musk plans to start work on them in only four years. Yes,.. Read More
Disability Can Be a Superpower in Space
Disabled astronauts offer unique solutions to emergencies in space According to Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen of Bowling Green State University, disabilities can be superpowers for astronauts in space. A position she and her co-author, Joshua Miele, of the Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, will explain Sunday May 27th at 3 pm at the National Space Society’s annual International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles. Dr. Wells-Jensen uses the 1997 fire aboard.. Read More
Kill the Gateway Before It Kills America’s Manned Space Program
A consensus has developed that we should get back to the Moon. The Trump Administration has made returning to the Moon official policy. Congress seems supportive. And other countries who have never been to the Moon are eager to get there. But there’s a huge roadblock in America’s way. A massive obstacle that could make a Moon program impossible. And we are creating that obstacle despite the fact that the.. Read More