NASA's Advanced Space Transportation Program (ASTP)

[GalaktikNinjA]

Anti-Gravity or bust

[doverdx]

Hi ASTP. I have tried to put forth the advanced work you suggested here in 16-month of peer-reviewed work in NASA SBIR 2011 X2.02-9009 & X2.03-9010 proposals. In addition, I wrote a white paper (peer reviewed from Cornell, MIT, Caltech, JPL, HMC) that was "discouraged" due to "appropriateness" for the BAA GCT socilication. One Senior JPL Propulsion Engineer (Dawn, MER, MSL) called the work "groundbreaking". What is going on? Feel free to get in contact... I'll be at NASA HQ in about 6 weeks.

[johnroach1]

@doverdx See pat# 6068449 also you might go to approach com and check out my

book. Tell (Dawn, MER, MSL) he or she is right!!!

[doverdx]

@johnroach1 Hey there! Thanks for the info. I checked out the patent and there is sufficient difference in my concept than the EM pump. Mine works off the electron fluid compressibility - electron plasma physics mixed with compressible flow. Question: Did you guys pull up my proposals on NSPIRES? Got another advanced concept on the way coming through the NIAC... will f-ing blow you away. :)

[doceigen]

Aside from the science fiction that fascinates everyone... the REAL problems are shielding, life support and coming up with a propulsion that is not pure Newtonian. A note to consider, when journeying in space, you can spit out molecules/atoms at any power, speed, forever and go nowhere! What is necessary is to waste some of what you spit out, in order to create an inertial mass to push against. Make a cloud, let it attain a loss in velocity, and then push against it... that's the waste in $.

[doceigen]

@doceigen Of course I am not saying anything new, creating an inertial mass is the standard, but most people think you can just get up there and 'push' and that moves you... it doesn't. But also, space is not empty, nearly, but not completely and it's the natural inertial mass that limits travel speed to sub-light.

[zikalify]

To move into space travel I think we must optimise travel and habitability on earth first! Take the venus project for example, they say they can have train lines across the world with maglevs going 4000mph. Oh and in tvp there is no money!

[ryanlitton86]

We won't need any of those forms of propulsion once we discover antigravity!

[Baseshocks]

@ryanlitton86 thats what we should have been researching all these years... fuck the space station and all the shit up their, ok put up satellites etc.. all the allied space agency's should have been researching gravity along wit the top university's, imagine how cheap it would be putting stuff into orbit... or even more advanced anti gravity to move in space....

[johnroach1]

@ryanlitton86 That will be a long time coming!

[Cougashika4229]

Weren't these the same people who halted funding for the already proven aerospike engine and the SSTO system associated with it in favor of the now-defunct Orion program?

[abmz1970]

I don't really believe that nothing is impossible for man is just a matter off time when no longer used fosile fuels a new way of energy a magentic propusion systems or Ion's

[hyperon4]

AHHH

Cant you se that we can never progress in spacetravel until we as a whole species UNDERSTAND that making as much money as possible is not the answer.. But yeahh..lets spend all the "money" on killing our own kind..GOOD PLAN.!!!!

Im leaving for mars as soon as i can!!!!!

[saultube44]

Hey Steve Cook, rename to Steve THIN and lower some weight or you'll be dead soon.

Yes that's what we need, safe, cheap & reusable orbital ships that can get huge amount of material to orbit. The space shuttle programs is old, polluting, cumbersome, expensive, impractical, inefficient, way of having a constant, periodic & OFTEN presence in orbit.

[darian1968]

If we want to get there faster than light or near that. We have to rely on eachothers ideas and work together. Seems NASA Has cut back alot so if we can get parteners to help us then maybe we can get going to moon Mars and Behond. Like it did say there is alot of people who would go. I feel time is right and we should as a whole. Represent Earth from all walks of life. It can be done. Hope this makes sence people.

[johnroach1]

"thrusting against space-time itself and faster-than-light travel." That is not possible!!! WHAT ARE YOU SELLING NASA ?

[Baseshocks]

@johnroach1 who says..... Mixing negative matter into the Einsteins calculation, changes the rules....

[Godscards]

See funny God's 2 "foot" 10 Commandments

I thought that the chance of me going into suborbital space was lost with that teacher.

[kerryfox]

This man is a xenophobic.  Beware his mental health.

[spark300c]

nasa your so very late. The private sector is already more advanced.

[harolze]

@spark300c Not more advanced but most cost efective.

[xray1o1]

Thay are all orbital vehicle NASA need to design space ship were it can run on it on power with no stages or gravity influence on the space craft.

I think ion drive cold be improved.

[granddad2002]

Keeping aerospace innovative is difficult. Building feasible into practical and profitable is the art of engineering. Steam power railways weren't feasible until government funding and private sector steel companies started to get those projects running with the focus on joining the east and west coast as the goal. Space has more resources than anywhere on Earth;it's risky and expensive. But this has been the same for anything we've done in recorded history.

[Sadochrist]

I hate this because I was wanting to know about what NASA is planing for future space craft propulsion and this is what? A promo for some show or some thing. No information, nothing, just gibberish and graphics. I want to know more about antimatter engines and nuclear fueled engines and how they work, maybe even ion engines and how they work.

[sferrin2]

OMG! Still laughing. . .. RBCC and TBCC aircraft have been looked at since the 60's. To think in 2025 they'll be flying when we can't even get X-51 to accelerate (never mind it's only flown once and will take several more YEARS just to make a couple more flights) is fantasy. Without consistent, long-term commitment to hypersonics it's all a pipe-dream. How many high speed research programs have been canceled in the last 10 years? It's pathetic.

[Magnetmotorman]

actually quit primitive

[thedeviluknow]

@Magnetmotorman Way in advance of what we have today. That's what matters.

[WARFARENINJA]

SEXY..