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Buck Galaxy — 1/19/2008 11:03:16 PM (archived)

Bigs also is putting up the $50m America's prize for an orbitable launcher. Private sector CATS is a must if his inflatable space stations are going to have customers. Another thing Bigs is doing is developing lunar habitat architecture AND lunar resource extraction equipment. This guy is going to make it happen!

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Ares 1..Orion - Raoul - 1/18/2008 8:07:17 PM
- CZ5 (n/t) - E.P. - 1/21/2008 5:04:58 PM
- I think Bigelow will get there before NASA - Buck Galaxy - 1/19/2008 3:11:32 AM
  - That may be why NASA is in no apparent hurry. - Bowser - 1/19/2008 10:51:32 PM
    - It would be better. - Buck Galaxy - 1/19/2008 11:08:43 PM
      - Forget 100 people... How about just 3 or 5 people... - TAFKASE - 1/21/2008 3:06:04 PM
  - Space X's Dragon is also farther along than the CEV - Lee - 1/19/2008 5:05:25 PM
    - I like the outlook as well - Buck Galaxy - 1/19/2008 11:03:16 PM
- From the Moon to the Planetoids? - Socrates II - 1/19/2008 3:10:06 AM
  - re: Lagrange points and asteroids - Raoul - 1/19/2008 7:27:39 PM
  - Once you leave the Earth-Moon system, a mission takes MONTHS!! - Raoul - 1/19/2008 6:34:21 AM
    - But since we are planning to go to Mars and beyond anyway... - Socrates II - 1/20/2008 3:47:56 PM
      - What's a few month? Everything, in terms of manned spaceflight! - Raoul - 1/20/2008 4:24:45 PM
        
        I think 1st you need to prove you can manufacture something useful on one or more NEOs - TAFKASE - 1/21/2008 3:12:00 PM
        
        We already know there are no ores and that they're often covered with meters of dust (n/t) - Raoul - 1/21/2008 7:13:20 PM
        
        re: What's a few months? - Raoul - 1/20/2008 9:20:19 PM
        
        Some day we are going to be doing more than the Moon and Mars - Socrates II - 1/21/2008 6:22:25 PM

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