info on launch vehicle plans

Something is definitly weird. When I click on the link below I get an
OOPS. When I paste it into the URL window in Netscape I get the correct
page. Try cut and paste on this link:

http://stday.msfc.nasa.gov/conf.html

andy-nimmo wrote:
>
> Hi Al,
>
> I went through to Marshall Space Flight Center to visit that link you
> sent around lunchtime, but got an 'Oops'. What was it about?
>
> Best wishes, Andy.
>
> Al Globus wrote:
>
> > see http://stday.msfc.nasa.gov/conf.html. Very informative.
> >
> > --
> > Al Globus
> > aglobus@..., (650) 604-4404
> > http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html
> >
> > The dinosaurs weren't spacefaring. We are. I don't think that's an
> > accident.
> > Maybe we are life's taxi to the stars.
> >
> > I think we should:
> >
> > 1. Devote half of NASA's budget ($7 billion) to reaching NASA's 2020
> >
> > goal of
> > reducing launch costs to Low-Earth-Orbit to $220/kg with a 0.01%
> > failure
> > rate.
> > This should enable space tourism. The resulting orbital hotels will
> > need
> > to
> > develop efficient orbital life support and other necessary
> > technologies.
> >
> > 2. Build orbital space colonies. The materials in the largest
> > asteroid
> > are
> > sufficient for orbital colonies with a combined surface area about
> > 500
> > times
> > greater than Earth's. Eros alone could make over ten thousand space
> > colonies,
> > each with about about 10 square kilometers of 1g living area.
> >
> > 3. After a few generations of orbital living, people won't need
> > their
> > colony
> > to be near Sol. Then small groups of colonies with populations in
> > the
> > tens-of-thousands can set out on multi-decade journeys to nearby
> > stars.
> >
> > Except the launch goals, none of this is even a little bit official.
> >

--
Al Globus
aglobus@..., (650) 604-4404
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html

The dinosaurs weren't spacefaring. We are. I don't think that's an
accident.
Maybe we are life's taxi to the stars.

I think we should:

1. Devote half of NASA's budget ($7 billion) to reaching NASA's 2020
goal of
reducing launch costs to Low-Earth-Orbit to $220/kg with a 0.01% failure
rate.
This should enable space tourism. The resulting orbital hotels will need
to
develop efficient orbital life support and other necessary technologies.

2. Build orbital space colonies. The materials in the largest asteroid
are
sufficient for orbital colonies with a combined surface area about 500
times
greater than Earth's. Eros alone could make over ten thousand space
colonies,
each with about about 10 square kilometers of 1g living area.

3. After a few generations of orbital living, people won't need their
colony
to be near Sol. Then small groups of colonies with populations in the
tens-of-thousands can set out on multi-decade journeys to nearby stars.

Except the launch goals, none of this is even a little bit official.