re: Destinations & interplanetary travel times

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gbaikie — 12/18/2008 9:30:01 AM (archived)

WASHINGTON -- NASA and Ad Astra Rocket Company of Webster, Texas, have signed a Space Act Agreement that could lead to the testing of a new plasma-based space propulsion technology on the International Space Station. The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) engine initially was studied by NASA and is being commercially developed by Ad Astra.
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=27213
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Comparing history and how wrong we were and still are - Raoul - 12/17/2008 9:36:48 PM
- virtual reality, space elevator, tipping points - sawyer - 12/18/2008 2:07:11 PM
- Destinations - TB - 12/17/2008 11:45:41 PM
  - Destinations & interplanetary travel times - phil - 12/18/2008 12:03:19 AM
    - re: Destinations & interplanetary travel times - gbaikie - 12/18/2008 9:30:01 AM
    - re: Destinations & interplanetary travel times - Marcia - 12/18/2008 5:56:50 AM
    - re: Destinations & interplanetary travel times - gbaikie - 12/18/2008 1:29:06 AM
      - 12 MWe - Adam - 12/29/2008 12:01:19 AM
        
        re: 12 MWe - gbaikie - 12/29/2008 8:13:02 AM
        
        Anything but nuclear I see. - Lee - 12/29/2008 2:38:34 AM
        
        Don't be an idiot - Adam - 12/30/2008 2:00:33 PM
        
        re: Anything but nuclear I see. - gbaikie - 12/29/2008 7:13:33 AM
        
        As a matter of fact. - Lee - 12/29/2008 12:58:24 PM
        
        re: As a matter of fact. - gbaikie - 12/30/2008 11:00:51 AM
        
        Steam Turbines in Space - nick hoffman - 12/30/2008 12:16:43 PM
        
        And what would you suggest Nick? - Adam - 12/31/2008 12:12:11 AM
        
        re: Steam Turbines in Space - gbaikie - 12/30/2008 5:37:57 PM
    - How do you propose to power it? - Adam - 12/18/2008 1:15:48 AM
      - I will say just this and I do not care what anyone else says or thinks on it - Socrates II - 12/18/2008 3:16:36 PM
        
        you asked me to tell you - pwokenyaw - 12/18/2008 10:59:59 PM
        
        Ignoring Opportunity Cost & Limited Resources - Marsby - 12/28/2008 6:10:03 PM
        
        re: you asked me to tell you - gbaikie - 12/19/2008 1:01:41 AM
        
        Death by large impacting space rock is not on my top list of concerns - Socrates II - 12/19/2008 5:01:59 AM
        
        Selfishness is what enables one nation, company, or individual to accumulate the capital needed to go into space. - G. Gordon Gecko - 12/31/2008 6:03:54 PM

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