launch

Al: I don't disagree with anything you just wrote.

Ron
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Al Globus
11/21/02 11:35 AM
Please respond to spacesettlers

To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
cc:
Subject: Re: [spacesettlers] Launch

The Delta IV is part of a military program to provide assured access to
space. DOD funded development of two vehicles, the Delta IV and Atlas
V, both derivatives of earlier rockets. In the current commercial
market, at least one and probably both cannot survive, so DOD is looking
into ways to subsidize them at least until the current slump ends.

On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 05:44 AM, rmenich@... wrote:

> A new ELV flew for the first time last night (Delta IV). Every year or
> two a new one flies. The point of the newer ELVs is to lower costs and
> raise reliability.
>

The dinosaurs were destroyed by an asteroid because they weren't
space-faring. It's almost as if Gaia then thought "Well, dinosaurs
worked pretty well, but space-faring is necessary. Maybe I'll should
try mammals this time." Humanity is now developing systems to detect and
deflect asteroids, and could build orbital space colonies to spread
beyond Earth to insure life would survive a planetary catastrophe.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html