Comments on: Astrium Unveils New Spaceship Plans (Video Simulation & Pictures)

By: Vick Hobster

Vick Hobster — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:27:31 +0000

Good stuff, looking forward to sticking around.

By: Jen Garn

Jen Garn — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:27:06 +0000

thanks !! very helpful post!

By: George

George — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:26:40 +0000

thanks !! very helpful post!

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By: Spooky

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The initial conditions that your assumed are impossible to reach: you would need more and more energy when the speed gets closer to C, raising to infinite at C.

By: tom

tom — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:52:07 +0000

correction…..spinning at 100 rev per second, not rpm.

By: tom

tom — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:48:22 +0000

I am 14 yrs old and I'd like to know if theoretically can we achieve speed of light. I have this idea: let say we have a giant wheel in space, 1000 km in diameter, spinning at 100 rpm. If my math is correct we can achieve a speed of 314000 km/s. Does it work in theory?

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:18:15 +0000

About bloody time! If we're going to burn hydrocarbons in the upper atmosphere, let's do it in the grand style. I have been proposing sub-orbital rocket/jet propelled aerospacecraft flight for over thirty years now – not some silly up-and-down thrill ride, but rather point-to-point on the surface of the earth flight to perform a useful function (of sorts). Thankyou Mr. Laine and company for your bold vision. In my opinion you could dump the vertical flights and proceed straight to the more obvious solution to long-distance high speed transport – now, there is a market. But then again, I suppose you do need to find some fools to pay a fortune to cover off your development costs for the technology whilst taking on all the risks of the early flights – snigger – not this cowboy.

Vancouver to Paris in 20 minutes anyone? And not just for a handful of people – hundreds at a time. Ya, and don't forget – we want windows too – big ones!

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:59:02 +0000

Maybe instead of trying to shoot down pieces of the ISS when it's "life" comes to an end, we should instead try a "self-destruct" device?

By: Eric Conrad

Eric Conrad — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:14:15 +0000

They don't need a destination. Millions of dollars already spent for a ride on SpaceShip 2 has already proven that…

By: Peter Knapp

Peter Knapp — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:13:36 +0000

Any flight involving only 4 passengers is going to be prohibitively expensive for, well, just about anyone.
Yeah, I'll wait til they can land "up there" and I can float into a space canister for weightless lunch!

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:37:47 +0000

As NASA seems to lack any foresight and vision, I suppose we need to look elsewhere for the next great steps into space.
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By: david

david — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:51:49 +0000

The Soyuz capsules are dumped because they have a short shelf life, somthing like 3 to 6 months.

By: Giles Smith

Giles Smith — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:56:47 +0000

I am not too bothered about having somewhere to go, I think for me just being in space would be enough!

Surely just being outside of our own environment is good enough!

By: Ktheron

Ktheron — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:10:47 +0000

This should have been done ages ago.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:14:17 +0000

Whatever gets us there. Frankly I am surprised that we're throwing perfectly good infrastructure back down the gravity well- I'm referring to Jules Vernes and Soyuz- can't we use something less valuable for ISS garbage re-entry and keep the resupply vehicles up there in a graveyard orbit? Another stupid question I have is: what will happen to the ISS when it reaches end of life?

By: Mike barber

Mike barber — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:00:00 +0000

Orbital hotels will be many years away. This is a 'first step'. The market will clearly be governed by the cost, but if it's 'reasonable'count me in!

By: Ian O'Neill

Ian O'Neill — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:53:23 +0000

To Silver Thread:

You're right, I'd need something a bit more substantial for the money… Let's just see if Bigalow Aerospace can get their orbital hotel up and running…

Ian

By: Silver Thread

Silver Thread — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:04:55 +0000

They need a destination in Space. Not just a three minute flight, but a legitimate hotel room of some kind. I know it's insanely expensive but to really get a feel for the idea of space tourism, a person will want to have a chance to orbit the earth once or twice I think. This is definitely a step in the right direction and the ship looks very clean .