Recent content by FredM

Ultimately, the expensive options for Moon landings as stated above, will give way to Moon Landing Strips. And NO .. you don't need an atmosphere to land on the Moon. Multiple SOLAR powered MAGLEV rocketport runways with auxiliary retro rocket braking will do just fine. Thus, Rocketports like...

Come on! I've been saying there is LIFE in certain temperate cloud layers on Venus .. for years. Send a 'return probe' mission and find out! It's the only way.

1.There is nothing wrong with reinforcing key points with capital letters. 2. A single definition of Entropy does not make you proficient enough to apply its concepts to living and travelling in space and on other worlds. Hopefully Elon Musk understands my posts and takes notice of the points I...

This is great technology in action. But We (humanity) need thousands of these mega-flights and a shift in targeting from Mars to the Moon if we are to get huge investors and make huge profits from day one in space. First, change the long term goal from Mars to colonizing the MOON and making it...

This is not an option ... except in a Boris Karloff movie . There are consequences for playing God and manipulating the human genome for any purpose other than to cure deadly disease.

Venus will be the 3Dimensional spaceport for the entire Solar System within 2-3 decades. Think! Coming in from a mission to Jupiter's Moons on an express path and entering Earth's atmosphere? You'd burn to a crisp! Now, gently enter Venus' gravity well and gradually use its thick clouds for...