Danderman123

My favorite photo from the SS-18 launch (not my photo), I was inside the plane at the time. After the launch, and the party, we had to fly back to Moscow. Unfortunately, the TU-154 aircraft engines wouldn't start. After long hours on the swelting tarmac, the engines wouldn't start, and the small airport didn't have a starter. So a mechanic tried Russian style repair, he hit the engine with a hammer. And off we went.

you seem confused. "Mir project" = the effort to rent Mir. Not the Soviet Mir project, which started in 1975. SpaceX was formed more than 10 years after the enabling legislation was passed.

and here is a photo of me in the RSC Museum with the MirCorp guys (MirCorp was founded after this photo was taken). It's the Vostok 1 capsule.

See if you can find a photo of the silo after launch. A couple more photos of the launch. The metal ring falls off the missile on the way up. The missile is in the red circle, I was 7 km away at launch.

1990: Enabling legislation for SpaceX passed: https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/COMPS-10648 1998: Mir project begins 2001~: SpaceX formed (I was not involved).

Here's something you have never seen before, a photo of an open SS-18 silo, just a few minutes after the missile was launched. I was invited to the Baikonur cosmodrome to see a launch. This is the rocket that Elon wanted for his first Mars project.

Mike Griffin, a former NASA administrator, was intent on duplicating Apollo. He started the Ares program, which evolved into the current Artemis.

Nope. I was involved in the Mir station long before my current companies were formed. The company that emerged from the Mir activity was MirCorp, but I was not involved in that company. It sounds like the timeline is confusing you. 1998 (more or less): effort to rent Mir starts. 2000: I leave the project, MirCorp is formed. 2006: I start work on company #1 2009: Company #1 incorporated 2010: first payload to ISS flown 2018 (more or less): 2nd company founded.

Because that was the location of one of my companies, per NASA. It appears in NASA documents for many years. I'll send you something via mail.

I apologize for using a vague term. I was the only person involved in my company for some years.

Obviously, this passage confused some people. "Early days" for my company, not NASA.

Trying adding "Laguna Woods" to your Google searches.

I was never involved in the "early days of "NASA", I was involved in the early days of one of my companies. I was the sole employee from 2006-2009 or so. I learned Russian from reading Glushko's Encylopedia Astronautica in the late 1980s. I first went to Russia in 1998. I helped pass the Launch Services Purchase Act, starting in 1987. It was signed into law by President Bush in 1990. Long interesting story there. I first went to Russia specifically to rent the Mir Space Station, at a time when RSC Energia was legally allowed to rent it. The negotiations resulted in my group's funding 2 Progress flights, and one crewed mission (TM-30). The total cost was $40 million. For some time, I was the only point of contact between my group and Energia, so I had to get up to speed on Russian space station operations pretty quickly. I left the group when they decide to operate Mir rather than put it in a storage orbit, which was the original plan. So, I never worked for MirCorp.

True the Vote fails to reveal evidence of Georgia voting fraud claims These are the losers who were the basis of the 2000 Mules scam. Now they have admitted in court that their claims were bogus. Although @Nick Carter icpapparently still believes them.

You are paying me the ultimate compliment by implying that my career is incredible.

Just the opposite - if you Google my name and my companies together, you would find personal info that is inappropriate here. You could find my name if you Google my companies. As for qualifications, can you remind me of Elon Musk's university experience in aerospace engineering?

So, why did 2 or 3 guys decide to start shooting people? That's very strange.

I guess you aren't familar with US elections. Registration of new voters in Texas happens before the voting starts. Your claims of widespread voter fraud in 2020 could be called crazy.

No business trips for me to Russia for a long time. Back in the day, I spent a lot of time in Russia, working in the factory where the Soyuz spacecraft is produced. I could take long weekends and go to places like Samara, Voronezh, and Kaluga. I had one break for 10 days, and flew to Novosibirsk for a December holiday. It was -40 degrees every minute of every day. Cold. The airport didn't have an arrival building, you just got out and stood on the tarmac. At -40 degrees.

I will vote once, but register some new voters, hopefully in Texas.

and yet there are posters here who don't believe that CO2 impacts temperature. Right, @Yellowtail

I'll wait until Trump loses in November. I plan to spend some time in the US working to register voters in a swing state. As opposed to just posting about Trump.

Far from BS. Your questions are answered. Some of my references are to projects and legislation that occurred before I got into the space business. For example, back in the day, I was part of a small group that opposed NASA development of the X-34 spaceplane, because it was designed as a commercial operational vehicle (X-planes are supposed to be experimental). It happens that Buzz Aldrin loved X-34, and decided to convince me of the error of his ways. He had my home number and would call me in the middle of the night to explain why I was wrong. Or call me at my day job (the company operator loved to announce on the PA that I had a call from Buzz Aldrin). Anyway, we managed to kill X-34. It came back later as a true experimental vehicle, but got cancelled before flight.

in the early days of my company, not NASA. The Mir stuff was before I founded any companies. Although I knew Elon when he founded SpaceX, my current 2 companies were not around when SpaceX was started.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Chaser Dream Chaser is preparing to fly Real Soon Now. Sierra Nevada is the company building the spaceplane, but most people don't know that Sierra Nevada got Dream Chaser when they bought Space Development Inc, a small startup from Poway, California. Space Dev was founded by Jim Benson, who made his money from being a DOD contractor. After he retired from DOD work, he got bored and founded a space company, which is when I met him. SpaceDev launched some satellites, and just before he died, Jim Benson conceived of DreamChaser, which was a copy of the HL-10 spaceplane, an old NASA design. After he died, Sierra Nevada bought what was left of SpaceDev. DreamChaser should fly this year. The Russians also copied HL-10, and made some short orbital flights.