Everything Looks Nonsensical Before It Works.

The Russians Did Much Bigger Space Launch Vehicles For Launching Satellites And For Getting Men In Orbit. They Did That Much Sooner Than America Because America Was Very Good At Something Else.

I Have A Hunch The Most Important Reason We're Going To Space Is Not Known Now.

My Study Is Not As A Climatologist, But From A Completely Different Perspective In Which I Am An Expert … For Decades, As A Professional Experimental Test Engineer, I Have Analyzed Experimental Data And Watched Others Massage And Present Data. I Became A Cynic; My Conclusion - 'if Someone Is Aggressively Selling A Technical Product Who's Merits Are Dependent On Complex Experimental Data, He Is Likely Lying'. That Is True Whether The Product Is An Airplane Or A Carbon Credit.

To Allow Public Access To Orbit, We Would Need Breakthroughs That Would Lower The Cost By A Lot More Than An Order Of Magnitude And Increase Safety By A Factor Of 100 As Compared To Every Launch System Used Since The First Manned Space Flight. I Think Airborne Launch Will Be A Significant Part Of The Safety Solution.

At Various Times Over 20 Years, I Did Preliminary Designs For Aircraft Like The Stratolaunch. For That Whole Time I Was Encouraging Us To Do Something That Almost Everyone Else Felt You Could Not Do.