Commentary by Mike Snead, President, Spacefaring Institute™
Sixty years after humans first reached orbit, commercial orbital passenger spaceflight has yet to begin. This article explains why this “puzzle” exists and how to jumpstart a new commercial spaceliner industry. Continue Reading115 – Solving the commercial passenger spaceflight puzzle
This article shows how America’s aerospace industry now has the capability to build a substantial and robust American LEO astrologistics infrastructure and provide aircraft-like fully-reusable space access for passengers. Continue Reading102 – DSIAC Journal article: American “astrologistics”
America is, once again, focused on advancing its human spacefaring enterprise. This will require an integrated spacefaring logistics infrastructure be built to enable and promote civil, government, and military Continue Reading94 – Spacefaring logistics infrastructure planning (2018 update)
On January 23, 2017, this article was published in The Space Review. A PDF of the article is here. The apparent intention of the Trump administration to reestablish the National Continue Reading71 – Space Review article: An engineer’s view of what low-cost, reusable, commerical passenger space transportation means
The following is an essay published in The Space Review on March 31, 2008. This essay responds to a earlier Space Review essay by Eric Hedman. ====== Continue Reading22 – Assessing the Practicality of Scramjet-Powered, Single-Stage Aerospaceplanes
A comment provided on my SA blog 17 asked several questions. This blog provides my responses. =====As the former NASA manager who ran the SSPS studies in the late 70s, Continue ReadingResponse to reader comments on SA Blog 17
The following is an essay published in The Space Review on December 4, 2007. This essay responds to a earlier Space Review essay by Taylor Dinnerman. ===== Taylor Continue Reading18 – Aerospaceplanes and Space Solar Power