Space Access Update #77 10/16/97 Space Access Update #77 10/16/97 Copyright 1997 by Space Access Society ________________________________________________________________________ stories this issue: - Air Force "Spaceplane" Startup Funding Line-Item Vetoed ** SAS Alert: Contact Your Representative, Both Senators, ASAP ** Urge Override of Defense Appropriation Line...
Space Access Update #76 10/3/97 Space Access Update #76 10/3/97 Copyright 1997 by Space Access Society ________________________________________________________________________ stories this issue: - NASA FY'98 Appropriation Conference Results, Bantam News & Opinions (Space Access Society's sole purpose is to promote near-term radical reductions in the cost of...
Space Access Update #75 9/23/97 Space Access Update #75 9/23/97 Copyright 1997 by Space Access Society ________________________________________________________________________ We've had a number of comments about our Updates running both too long and too infrequently. We're going to lean toward "Better is the enemy of Good Enough" for a while and try to get news out...
Space Access Update #74 8/31/97 Space Access Update #74 8/31/97 Copyright 1997 by Space Access Society ________________________________________________________________________ The last message we put on the net was short and simple: "We lost", on our web site, tagged onto the title of that mid-July alert on Future X funding. We were running out the door on the first...
Space Access Update #73 7/14/97 Space Access Update #73 7/14/97 Copyright 1997 by Space Access Society ________________________________________________________________________ Stories this issue: - Editorial: First X, *then* Y, or, The Effective Integration of New Technologies into Advanced Aerospace Vehicles - X-33 Emergency "Tiger Team" Review Results - Management...
Space Access Update #72 5/23/97 Space Access Update #72 5/23/97 Copyright 1997 by Space Access Society ________________________________________________________________________ We're once again concentrating on the government end of the cheap launch business, not because that's the only place things are happening - far from it! - but because things are happening in...
Space Access Update #71, parts 1 & 2 5/6/97 Space Access Update #71, part 1 - 5/4/97 Copyright 1997 by Space Access Society _______________________________________________________________________ Yes, it's been six months since we put out an Update. We've delayed for a variety of reasons - we didn't want to get into detail on NASA X-33's problems while the coming...
Space Access Update #70 10/18/96 Space Access Update #70 10/18/96 Copyright 1996 by Space Access Society _______________________________________________________________________ Rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. Yes, it's been eleven weeks since the last Update, and yes, the SAS web page is still a sporadically maintained construction site, and yes...
Space Access Update #69 7/31/96 Space Access Update #69 7/31/96 Copyright 1996 by Space Access Society _______________________________________________________________________ This just in. The DC-XA "Clipper Graham" suffered a significant post- landing fire today. As far as we know, the scheduled two minute twenty second flight test went fine. Preliminary word is...
Space Access Update #68 7/21/96 Space Access Update #68 7/21/96 Copyright 1996 by Space Access Society _______________________________________________________________________ We've gotten used to relaxing this last year or two, perhaps a bit too much. The main questions over X-33 weren't whether it would happen, but details of how. We fought those issues, won some...