An Ex Rocket Man's Take On It

My friend John Vickrey, up in Norman, Oklahoma, recently sent an email decrying the firing of teachers in the Kansas City schools as scap...

I receive a lot of e-mail forwards about a giant untapped American “oil formation”, usually under the name “Bakken", but there are se...

The following data came from a book written by George Dyson, titled "Project Orion - the True Story of the Atomic Spaceship", pu...

A lot of people are surprised when I tell them there is a strong connection between excessive dependence upon foreign oil, and the wars and...

The baseline ramjet strap-on pod is illustrated in figure 1. It is a very clean cylindrical shape of length-to-diameter ratio near 8. The ...

Today was another "snow day" in Central Texas. I wish folks would drive sanely in this stuff. It's not a lot different from ...

These images are also posted primarily for my NewMars.com buddies. They are excerpted from the detailed performance maps I generated for th...