Hi,

Please check out the Georgia Tech Experimental
Aerodynamics Group's papers at the 38th Space Congress
at the KSC, and the SSI Conference at Princeton. They
can be viewed at
http://www.adl.gatech.edu/archives/index.html

Any comments would be appreciated.

Thanks, Bala Ganesh.

--- In spacesettlers@y..., Bala wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please check out the Georgia Tech Experimental
> Aerodynamics Group's papers at the 38th Space Congress
> at the KSC, and the SSI Conference at Princeton. They
> can be viewed at
> http://www.adl.gatech.edu/archives/index.html
>
> Any comments would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Bala Ganesh.

I enjoyed these two papers very much.

In addition to the enlightening technical aspects, they brought into
the bright glare of consciousness the difficulty it is going to be to
get private financing for space development.

Along these lines, SpaceDev is perhaps the most advanced and one of
the best known private space initiatives and yet The Motley Fool
panned it as a poor prospect for those primarily interested in
getting a return on their investment in time frames that can be
expected from conventional investments.

An alternate approach is to initiate a conventional business network
and place on it an intrinsic function to invest in space development.
Then there will be no need to be so concerned about a five to ten
times return in three to five years, as routinely expected by venture
capitalists when they invest in new business startups.

My response is to develop a company called Alpha Space Products and
then leverage a successful operation into the startup of an
entertainment complex modeled after a meld of a Stanford Torus space
settlement and Buckminster Fuller's pre-engineered city called
"Old Man River."

A successful prototype would be expanded on a global basis with an
ideal form expected to contribute 10 billion dollars on an annual
basis. It would still take participation from many other sources, or
250 years, to raise the capital required to build the space
settlement discussed in the two papers.

A web site at http://www.alphaspaceproducts.com and a discussion
information on the new business approach.

Best regards,

Leon Neihouse