APPENDIX
NASA Policies
"However, long standing regulations administered by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics prohibit all federal employees -- including NASA astronauts -- from appearing in commercial advertisements or endorsing commercial products, Rothenberg wrote. That regulation and other related policies, meanwhile, are under review by both NASA and the Bush administration, which took office in January.
The aim: to conduct "an agency wide evaluation of commercialization activities for the purpose of creating an enhanced commercialization strategy for the agency," Rothenberg wrote. "Until that review is completed," he added, "our current policies necessarily must remain in place." -
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"NASA recently rebuffed the tiny Internet company, Beefjerky.com, when it submitted a request to send a small package of Final Frontier Beef Jerky up to the station aboard a visiting U.S. shuttle in April.
NASA declined, but as luck would have it the nephew of one of the U.S. astronauts now on the station ordered some Final Frontier Beef Jerky from the company. He liked it and recommended it to the astronaut's spouse, who included some of the jerky in a family care package that was shipped up to the station on a Russian Progress space freighter that arrived at the outpost May 22." -
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MORE TO BE ADDED
CONNECTIONS
The following is a lead in to the Mining Operations on the Moon Thread that we will add as time allows...
For those of you who thought the Saturn 5 was a dead duck... Guess Again. As you can see in the above Prospectus CSI has incorporated plans to consider the Saturn 5 as a viable launch vehicle...
Also mentioned in this report is the Delta IV and Sea Launch. These two link back to our other upcoming works that will be covered in the Mining and Military sections of our presentation.
CSI is not the only private company planning to use the Saturn 5 launch vehicle...
Former Apollo 17 Astronaut, US Senator and Geologist H H Schmitt (Remember the USGS Maps?) owns a company called Interlune Intermars Initiative Inc.
Launch Costs (see Schmitt, 1994)
*The longest financial pole in a large tent full of long poles.
o Professor Thompson has shown that the major factor in the cost of large space projects is launch cost.
o With respect to lunar 3He, $1000-2000 appears to be about the limit and still have an attractive rate of return for investors
o The potential market in space for lunar volatile by-products has not yet been factored into this analysis
* Apollo "capital" costs related to research, development, manufacturing, and operations were about $64 billion in current dollars, including the spacecraft, facilities, and training.
o Gave a Saturn V launch vehicle that could place a maximum payload of about 43,000 kg on a lunar intercept trajectory as well as about two weeks of space operations related to that payload.
o At the end of the Apollo Program, the cost of each additional lunar mission was about $3 billion, if one includes about $500 million as the cost of capital, or
o Thus, the cost/kg for the Saturn V would be about $70,000. + In consideration of pure launch costs/kg, and given that the above numbers include spacecraft, operations, and training costs that would be allocated elsewhere, these Apollo numbers define the maximum cost envelope for any future return to the Moon.
* However, it can be reasonably assumed that future launch costs, based on the engineering concepts of the Saturn V, would be significantly lower.
"Pure" Management Components for a 3He Enterprise
This again will lead us the the AQUILA Cargo Transfer - Liquid Transport Version
Now this all connects us with our presentation on LUNAR MINING OPERATION. We present this here as a direct connection between the Commercial aspect of Space Operations that we have shown in the shopping mall presentation and gives us a perfect lead in to the Mining Section. The Military Section will follow after.
Hope you have enjoyed the presentation and have learned something...
Open your eyes... there is more going on 'out there' than NASA