Space Vanguard

This is an update on the Planetary Resources company based in Seattle WA USA. They are ramping up engineering and they have openings starting in January 2013, for college students as paid interns helping to develop the equipment and processes for privately mining asteroids in space for valuable minerals. This will be a valuable training ground for all dedicated space enthusiasts and it will launch the first wave of private space pioneers who have the desire to spread human civilization out into the far reaches of space. Space Vanguard SIG gives this company two thumbs up.

It looks like our desire for private space travel for practical commercial uses is going for launch! A new company Planetary Resources, Inc. has been formed to mine asteroids. They have contracted with Richard Branson's private Virgin Galactic company to use his WhiteKnightTwo jet plane freighter to take off from Spaceport, New Mexico, and carry the LauncerOne rocket up into the edge of our atmosphere where it will detach and ignite to carry the 500 pound payloads out into space. The total cost for launching 500 pounds is reportedly about $10 million. The cost savings over NASA public launches comes about because for most of the launch distance the payload is propelled by the normal air breathing jet engines on WhiteKnightTwo until it runs out of air in the upper atmosphere. Since it only has to carry fuel and doesn't have to carry heavy oxidizer gas and can collect it from the surrounding air with the big compressor fans cramming it into the front of the jet engines for most

We have a new Space Vanguard SIG Assistant Coordinator, Robert Williscroft. All of you members are encouraged to comment on these blog postings and to communicate with each other to forward our adventure in human potential and future space colonization. We are finally in the year 2012 and the status quo is starting to shake loose. There are many free energy and human health inventions that will now break free and see the light of day. I will post about these as I learn more. There will also be a lot of solar flares and financial chaos. It still looks like gold and silver will be smart investments. Take care and dodge the flares.