Space News 01.28.12 Jan 29, 2012
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Space News01.28.12
Jan 29, 2012
SpaceX
• Improved Merlin Engines– Increased capability for Falcon heavy and future
systems• Reusable launch systems• Elon Musk plans to put millions of people on
Mars• Reason magazine feature on New Space age
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Rocket Men
• Elon Musk (SpaceX)• Richard Branson (Virgin Galactic)• Jeff Greason (XCor)• Peter Diamandis (prize giver)• Charles Simonyi (passenger)• Robert Bigelow (space habitats)• John Carmack (Armadillo Aerospace)• Dana Rohrabacher (Legislator)• George Nield (FAA proponent)
Nasa studies propellant depots
Putting up propellant depots
Fuel Depot and Lunar missions
Project Bifrost
Dawn Mission to Vesta
A wealth of habitable planets