SPACE SHUTTLE EXTENDED TO JUNE, 2011 JOHN GLENN ON-BOARD!

"MOTHBALLING" THE SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM

The SPACE SHUTTLE must be preserved for our future in manned space exploration. The only alternative at this point is to convince President Obama to warehouse the entire system until Congress and the President realize the significance the SPACE SHUTTLE will play in our future. I am attaching some diagrams of a "E X T E N D E D" SPACE SHUTTLE which will serve as part of a new and safer launching system for the current SPACE SHUTTLE, as well as become our next new spacecraft, capable of extended excursions into deep space. BUZZ ALDRIN has joined the fight to save the SPACE SHUTTLE, but it is too little and too late. Thank you BUZZ ALDRIN for at least trying......

$250 Billion At Stake With President Obama

$250 Billion, that's $250,000,000,000 or one fourth of $1 Trillion dollars....That is how much it is going to cost you and me, the American taxpayers, if and when another manned space flight program is initiated in the future. There is on alternative. We continue with the SPACE SHUTTLE Program and build upon it. Here is the solution and it is so simple, so economical, so obvious, a caveman could have figured it out.

We stretch a SPACE SHUTTLE and build a liquid propelled booster for the SPACE SHUTTLE to ride to orbit. Isn't that an elegant, beautiful solution......

Hang on, it gets even better! That new booster we just built is also our newest spacecraft that will be capable of voyages to the moon, Mars and selected moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

Wait, even more good news! We launch the new booster with "piggybacked" SPACE SHUTTLE from a magnetic levitated track that will serve as a first stage for all future space launches, both manned and unmanned. That means no more expensive expendable parts and no more dangerous, uncontrollable solid fueled rockets.

Even more good news! The SPACE SHUTTLE will get upgrades that should have been done immediately after the 1986 tragedy. The new launching system will eliminate threats to the exterior tiles. The old tiles will be replaced by new composite material being tested on the X-37B by the USAF as I write this blog. New retro-rockets will be installed in the SPACE SHUTTLE and the new booster spacecraft that will dramatically reduced dangerous air friction upon reentries to the atmosphere.

HERE'S THE BAD NEWS!!!!

None of this is going to happen unless President Obama saves the SPACE SHUTTLE from destruction immediately. You must write him at:

THE WHITE HOUSE

1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW

Washington, D. C. 20500

http://www.cyrus-space-system.com

cinedog@netzero.net

We can do this..........

BYE BYE CONSTELLATION-HELLO CYRUS SPACE SYSTEM

Okay, the redundant, wasteful, backward thinking Constellation is history. (see my last posting dated September 9, 2009). Now what? The answer is right in front of us. We built a magnificent spacecraft that has served us well for nearly thirty years. We will build upon and improve the SPACE SHUTTLE design. We will build a new, much larger spacecraft and call it the SUPER SHUTTLE (aka CYRUS) and it will carry man from the surface of the earth to the moon, to Mars and many of the satellites of the Jovian planets. The SUPER SHUTTLE will achieve one third (1/3) the needed velocity to attain earth orbit BEFORE it even separates from the ground and with one hundred percent (100%) of its fuel mass on board. The SUPER SHUTTLE will utilize no expendable parts and will be launched in a horizontal configuration. It will employ no solid or cryogenic propellants. The SUPER SHUTTLE will refuel in space at orbiting space platforms that will be strategically placed in orbit around the earth, the moon and Mars. The SUPER SHUTTLE will be powered by both liquid propellants and ion plasma engines which will enable man to reach Mars in less than sixty (60) days. Would you like to see what it looks like? No problem. Go to: http://cyrus-space-system.com You're welcome, Daniel Sterling Sample Space Designs in Los Angeles, California

THE DEMISE OF THE ARES I

The Ares I is dead, but NASA just keeps beating a "dead horse" to make it get up and pull NASA out of its 40 year slump. NASA is still stuck in an era of "bottle rockets" and "tin can" capsules. Why is the ARES I history? Let me count the ways:
1) As soon as the ARES I project was announced in 2005, there were many scientists who said the configuration was too heavy for the thrust the single, extended SRB from the SPACE SHUTTLE architecture could provide. The critics were right. Very recently, NASA reduced the crew from 6 to 4 to lighten the load.
2) The USAF did a detailed study on the ARES I and they concluded that if the ARES I failed in the first 60 seconds after launch, the crew could not escape if ground control had to destruct the configuration.
3) Vibration is the biggest reason the ARES I is a poor design. Right now, NASA is trying to mitigate the terrible vibrations that the SRB will generate by installing a series of mechanical springs between the various rocket sections.
4) The static test of the SRB just completed in Utah was successful only because NASA secured the SRB very heavily to the pad.
5) NASA is rushing to launch the ARES I in October, 2009 and this could have disasterous results.
6) Even NASA announced it was concerned with crosswinds of 22 mph or more during launch because of the slender design of the ARES I.
7) Cost overruns are already mounting on the ARES I.
8) Designing a system like the CONSTELLATION which requires building two new rockets from the ground-up was a terrible and expensive way to go.
9) NASA, in its zeal to fund the CONSTELLATION, is retiring the finest and most versatile spacecraft ever to be launched into space, the SPACE SHUTTLE.
CONCLUSION- The entire CONSTELLATION program should be scrapped immediately. The SPACE SHUTTLE program must be immediately revived. Yes, we do need a new heavy lifter, but the ARES V is not the way to do it. We can tweak the SPACE SHUTTLE launch architecture and build a heavy lifter at a fraction of the cost of the ARES V. NASA's days are numbered if it can't get its house in order and President Obama is just the man to help NASA end its wasteful ways.

S-O-S SAVE OUR SHUTTLE

NASA plans to retire the SPACE SHUTTLE as early as 2010. The space agency is making the greatest blunder since the agency was formed. The SPACE SHUTTLE is far ahead of any other space system, foreign or domestic, currently being used or being built or still on the drawing board. The SPACE SHUTTLE, with some modification and upgrading, can become NASA's "workhorse" in space, such as:

1. Continuing to supply the International Space Station with crews and supplies.
2. Aid in the deployment of orbiting space platforms in orbit around the earth, the moon and Mars. These orbiting space platforms will serve as points in space for configuring deeper space missions, as well as supplying rocket fuel for those missions.
3. Furnish manned transportation to hundreds of satellites in geosynchronous orbit for repair and refueling.
4. Serve as a rescue vehicle for various space missions. One SPACE SHUTTLE could be permanently docked at the ISS or at an orbiting space platform for that purpose.
5. Become a "work-in-progress" prototype for a larger, more advanced spacecraft capable of missions to the moon, Mars and beyond, saving billions of dollars in R&D.

We are very interested in your ideas regarding the SPACE SHUTTLE's future.