Re: EXOTERRA: Space Events of 20th Century

Michael Lorrey (retroman@tpk.net)
Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:50:28 -0500


Forrest Bishop wrote:
>
> You wrote:
> >
>
> >Natasha,
> >
> >Try the National Space Society, headed by Robert Zubrin, who wrote The
> Case
> >for Mars,
> >a book which elucidates a cheap, fast and easy way to send real people
> to Mars.
> >
> NSS is in essence a mouthpiece for government, aerospace and military
> entities.
> Have a look at their sponsors, and at Ad Astra (their newsletter)
> articles.
> I have not seen any support from them for private space initiatives,
> although they might have, and certainly individual members do. Mostly,
> it looks like "business as usual".
>

Dr. Zubrin happens to be Chairman of Pioneer Rocket Plane, a private
space initiative developing an air refueled JP-4/LOX powered TAV derived
from the Black Horse concept.

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