SPACEFLIGHT
BY Mark Goll, designed with minimum graphics to download fast.
THE SOL CAZADOR PROJECT IS ABOUT THE POSSIBLE. SPACE ACCESS NOT FOR BILLIONAIRES OR LARGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENTS, BUT FOR AVERAGE PEOPLE WITH $30 TO RISK. THE SOL CAZADOR LAUNCH VEHICLE IS LOW COST LOW TECHNOLOGY DESIGNED TO FIT THE MARKETPLACE AND GOVERNMENT RESTRICTIONS, AND YET IT REMARKABLY ACHIEVES ORBITAL AND LUNAR TRAJECTORIES WITH A SMALL ORGANIZATION AND SKILLED TECHNICIANS. AS SPACE ACCESS FOR FREE ENTERPRISE, THE CHALLENGE IS TO FIND AND DEVELOP SMALL INNOVATIVE AND REVOLUTIONARY PAYLOADS THAT WILL OPEN THE SPACE FRONTIER FOR ALL HUMANITY.
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News -IF YOU'RE IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, AND YOU THINK YOU'RE THE GREATEST THING TO HIT MARKETING IN THE SPACE AGE, CALL ME. This is your chance to be a major space executive.
Reality Check
To really make Space a going concern you need about 10,000 people in space to give you the depth of expertise, to support the industrial base, give economies of scale for transportation, and to provide a market for products and services. Current cost to get into space is $20 mil, so, $20,000,000.00 X 10,000 =$200,000,000,000.00. And the infrastructure to support them costs about 1000 times that, so $200,000,000,000,000.00. That’s the reality. And no, I do not have that in the bank.
To put it another way, let’s take six, one to three day vacations in western national parks for two people. We’ll need a minivan (used), fuel, food, cameras, park admission, camping gear, etc., let’s say $24,000.00. Doable, actually it’s marketable. Six, one to three day trips to the Moon in 1960’s dollars is $24,000,000,000.00, the final tally for Apollo. That’s about a million to one ratio of what it takes to do something on Earth. And it says nothing about staying.
Let me put this plainly, Consider a brick wall 1000 feet high, The suborbital tourist operators are smashing their heads against that wall at about the six foot level, and NASA with federal subsidy is hitting it at about the twelve foot level pretty much head-on too. NASA has been lying about opening the space frontier for about 50 years because they know how huge the problem really is, and anybody who thinks suborbital tourism is going to do the deed is delusional also. Bottom line it’s going to take radically different thinking to get over the top, doing it the same way but with more money or with a 50% savings in launch costs is NOT going to change the reality. But it can be done.
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Mark Goll
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What's happening- Since the successful launch of the 2000# thrust hybrid at South Texas Spaceport, we have gathered together all the equipment we need to start launch operations, even the ketchin sink! We have a mission, a marketing plan that WORKS, a launch site, and the technology. The course to space is now open, who will join me to sail these new seas?
The highly successful commercialization of America's air
transportation system in 1925 by the Kelly Act is the most
expedient model for transforming what is essentially
America's State Airline for Space, NASA, into a private free
enterprise industry. Hey folks, "Space" will never happen
unless NASA gets out of the space transportation business. A program for privatization.
If you want to help, Email Mark Goll, please put "space" or "rocket" in the subject line or its into the spam trash!
New and Improved!!, .....Now with Minimum Cost Design!!
14 Days on the Moon, exploring an alien landscape.
I have four Basic programs available for Email distribution. A rocket stability calculator, a simple rocket flight calculator, a multistage rocket flight simulator, and a new reentry simulator.
HAVE ROCKET WILL TRAVEL, For those of you in the South Texas area, I have a small, very safe, rocket motor demonstrator, and lectures on the future of space flight, how rockets work, and what we are doing. Since diesel fuel is now a major cost of getting into space, if you will pay the fuel cost for the pickup I can provide a live rocket motor demonstration for your group.
A two stage version of the hybrid rocket was entered in the new CATS prize competition. That was the direction of march before the prize was announced. SO SAD, CATS DIED! For more information, go to:Space Frontier Foundation CATS prize page. For a short history see prizes.