[ExI] Stephen Baxter's Titan

[Giulio Prisco]

So very true. The question becomes, how to make space better in the
10s, 20s and the rest of the future.

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:12 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

>
> The 60s were good days for the rocket biz.  We must be ready to recognize
> that technology isn't always forward in all fields.  Almost all and almost
> always, but some technologies do rot on the vine.  Plenty of our reference
> material generated in that decade is still in use today.  Pretty soon the US
> will have no manned access to LEO, after landing guys on the moon over 4
> decades ago.
>
> Emlyn if you get a chance, try to talk one on one with some of the rocket
> guys who were in their 20s in about 1960.  There were some things that were
> just fundamentally different back then, and better in a lot of ways for the
> space biz.
>
> spike