This is the proposal sent to NASA's Centennial Challenges group for a competition to fly a vehicle to 25 kilometers and land back within 100 meters of launch point in under 1 hour total time.
This is the proposal sent to NASA's Centennial Challenges group for a competition to develop and demonstrate a VTVL rocket pad material that can withstand 10 launch and landings (including 60 second hover at 2 meters) without damage or deterioration. I proposed it after seeing the damage done to various pads during the Lunar Lander Challenge this year.
This paper updates the concepts in the 2003 ISDC F.A.S.T. paper above, looking
back on more than five years of change in the NewSpace world. Thinking F.A.S.S.T. extends and clarifies the concepts, requirements, funding and opportunities available in opening afforable access to space to the average citizen.
- submitted to the Augustine Commission
This paper discusses the Fund for American Space Transportation (F.A.S.T.) program - a means to provide for the
development and demonstration of multiple commercially viable
spaceflight capable systems with minimum government requirements
and maximum benefit to free enterprise, the people and the human
race's desire to reach space.
This White Paper was released at the 2009 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight being held October 21st in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It's full title is "GETTING FASTER: A Case for High Speed Point-to-Point Flight as a Logical Transition Between Suborbital Space Tourism and Low-Cost, Reusable Space Access". Doing Single Stage Point To Point transport for cargo, and then passengers, is likely to be an essential part of any successful spaceline's business plan (IMHO).