An Ex Rocket Man's Take On It

The ravings of a trained mind.

Friday, August 1, 2025

Air Launch to Low Earth Orbit

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There is a conundrum associated with launching to low Earth orbit from an airplane.  The illustration tries to sum up the various parts of i...
Monday, July 28, 2025

Education Department to be Shuttered by Trump?

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I found this on LinkedIn.   It’s too true not to share.   It’s also rather funny,   in a gallows humor sort of way. -----   Search code 2807...
Saturday, July 26, 2025

Tank Design for Easy Cryogenic Transfers in Weightlessness

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I recently came up with a design for a cryogenic propellant tank that makes transfers of propellant easy in weightlessness!  I filed a provi...
Friday, July 18, 2025

Why Trump Did Not Want To Release the Epstein Files

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Trump has vehemently resisted releasing the Epstein files,   which his cult supporters believed had a client list containing many names of t...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Oxygenation Issues for Habitats and Space Suits

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search code 08072025;  search keywords space program,  spacesuit -------   The following is an evaluation of oxygenation issues for space ha...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Where You Get Your “Facts” Matters!

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This is another one I found on LinkedIn that I thought I would post here.  As readers of this blog already know,  I often say “you are entit...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

On the new Iran war

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Update 7-1-2025 :   The Waco "Tribune-Herald" newspaper today published a version of the original article just below,  as a board ...
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Gary Johnson
McGregor, Texas, United States
GW had a 20 year career in aerospace defense new product engineering, followed by a 20 year career in mostly teaching, with a little civil engineering and aviation work. He is now retired on a small farm in central Texas, occasionally building and selling cactus eradication tools, available for consulting, and offering a self-published book on ramjet propulsion. He has posted a lot of technical articles on this site, a catalog of which is in the post "Lists of Some Articles By Topic Area", dated 21 October 2021. For information about the ramjet book, see "GW's Ramjet Book Is Now Available!", posted 12 February 2024. Use the blog archive gadget as a navigation tool to find these quickly. He is also developing course materials for teaching or self-teaching in aerothermodynamics, and in the sizing of vehicles for space missions.
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