Frank’s note: In these pages we have seen one disconnect after another on how poorly NASA sometimes produces its own message. An overwhelming majority of people have no idea what […]
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What Constitutes Space Leadership?
Frank’s note: Of all of the recent NASA Administrators (Goldin, O’Keefe, Griffin) former Marine General Charles F. Bolden, Jr. has given the fewest public appearances of them all. Excluding college […]
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Rocket Motors to Nowhere?
Frank’s note: Heaven forbid that the 5-segment solid rocket motor test would have blown up – nobody in their right minds would want that. But I have to ask why […]
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Should NIAC be Revived?
Frank’s note: One of the casualties of the tight budget squeeze at NASA was the closing in 2007 of the agencys Institute for Advanced Concepts, the closest thing for a […]
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Would You Bring Back NGLT-or SLI?
Frank’s note: There was a time-back in the day when NASA funded research programs designed to develop advanced space launch technologies, which in part were to reduce the cost of […]
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How Best to Access the ISS-and LEO?
Frank’s note: Readers, Keith has asked me to keep posting for awhile, so heres my latest query: been reading some of the ideas for a commercially-derived lifting body crewed spacecraft […]
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Remembering Apollo 11 and the Legacy of Apollo
Frank’s note: Readers, Ive been working of late with Buzz Aldrin and his team to help prepare a series of presentations related to this summers 40th anniversary of the Apollo […]
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Why Some Say the Moon?
Frank’s note: Readers, in this my last exercise in gauging your ideas before Keith slips back in the saddle, I thought Id ask your views about the moon-specifically on whether […]
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This Memorial Day, Let Us Remember The Heroes of Space
Frank’s note: I remember the sound the wheels made as they clanked on the asphalt pathways of Arlington National Cemetery. In my minds eye I see the sunlights glint on […]
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Is the International Space Station Truly International?
Lost in Space, Op-Ed Buzz Aldrin, New York Post Frank’s note: In a recent op-ed published in the New York Post, Buzz Aldrin called the way the U.S. has managed […]