International Symposium on Personal and Commercial Spaceflight – Las Cruces, NM – October 22-23, 2008
For those of us that didn’t get to go, here’s a like to another blogger that gives a great description of the past week’s events: http://www.personalspaceflight.info/
This is my “drawing board” where I’m going to “Brain Dump”
To Do list:
—–Original Message—–
From: Bedke, Curtis M MajGen USAF AFMC AFRL/CC
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 6:08 PM
To:
Subject: AFRL Commander’s WIT #40: The Struggle—Intellectual Capitalism, Interoperability Nightmares and Standardization
Men and Women of the Air Force Research Laboratory-
There is a Philosophical Struggle raging on right now in the Air Force, that stands not only to dramatically influence our future direction but to literally determine whether we will survive as an institution able to perform our mission. […]. It affects not only our Air Force, but all of the military. What is it?
“Always Never the Same” – both an album by the rock band Kansas, 1998 and an album by country music singer George Strait, 1999. No, they’re not ever the same. Right here is where you think I’m going to give a coy or humorous answer. But no – I’m dead serious on this one. The battle is between what I will call “Intellectual Capitalism” and “Standardization.” (more…)
Hawaii’s Pacific Business News (10/9) reported that “Hawaii will be one of 10 states to launch a nationwide design competition among public and private high-school students, who will develop technical solutions for the aerospace industry.” The article noted that “the national Real World Design Challenge, headed by the U.S. Department of Energy, will provide student teams with mentors from government and private industry. Design software and technical training also will be provided through the program.” After holding local challenges, each of the 10 states will “send its winning team to compete next spring in Washington, D.C., in a national competition.” The Business News pointed out that “a possible technical challenge would be to design an aircraft body that would reduce a plane’s fuel consumption.”
Just an interesting article I found and wanted to save: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1216/1. It talks about the role of passion in the new Private Space Flight Market. It also discusses the role of the Public Sector and the Private Sector, but like almost everyone else, it does not talk about the role the Non-Profit Sector could play to help make up for functions not being implemented by the Public Sector and that are too big for any one entity in the Private Sector to risk doing.
