Asteroid Belt First

In a message dated 8/30/02 2:05:03 PM, ESchonert@... writes:

<< Thanks Carl Mullen for your LAST PARAGRAPH in your Aug 24 "Earth-
Moon Network = Maturing Space Industries" response comments also
trying to boost asteroid belt priority. >>

You're welcome Ed S., just watch the "i" in Mullin. :-)

Anyway, I want to recap my ideas on "What We To Do"?" First step is to
create earth-based busnesses in such things like barb bags, skintight
spacesuits, and other things for private life. Find a barren place for quick
and dirty launch pad. Launch a SSTO reusable craft for a 24 hr orbit. Then
put up a small private station in LEO. (anybody got any data or sites for
SSTO station designs?) This will give us a place to do both business and
testing in everything for private colonization. This will give all private
space race a goal to reach for. Also we can do the same thing with plant
nursey in SSTO. for biotech experiment and resupply in seperated sections.
>From there, we can launch a cheap and refitted Russian rocket to the Belt
with robots to do a survey of the rocks and dropping series of beacons on the
nice stuff and dangerous spots to avoid. This rocket will also drop series of
SolarNet sats to create a boosted communication system. Big sat would be nice
but wide net of mircosats mght be better. While we wait for the results, we
go on to use our station to build bigger station and hotels and to build a
manned rocket for the job of catching a tiny NEO nearby and bring it back and
start a small mining business that will be used to boostrap the
infranstrusture. If we're lucky, that rock might have gold which we can use
to raise loans againest. Also, we launch a series of rockets for the "Moon
Direct" business (as based on "Mars Direct" book). That's it. Just a quick
and dirty work for people with high spirits and resourcefulness willing to do
it for new home, good buck, and a shinning new future. We don't need to
build big stuff first. Start small like a DNA and keep reproducting with new
bits added each time.

Carl E. Mullin
visionary artist and entrepreneur
homo asteralis
ravenart@...
www.ravenartstudio.com

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