Bill Stone at this year's TED

[nimbus]

I haven't seen a thread about this, and I apologize in advance if it's in the wrong forum.<br /><br />This talk is worth watching, if nothing else, to further cement confidence that we are on the right track to getting more and more of the right people motivated in this great endeavour.<br /><br />http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/141 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[thereiwas]

At the end of Stone's talk, where he is discussing lunar mining, he shows a drawing of a hemispherical aeroshell that is used to slow down the returning tanks of fuel for insertion into LEO. Has anyone seen any articles about this specific design? (Other than the movie "2010" where they used an inflatable aeroshell to brake around Jupiter.)