Danderman123

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.

I am not crazy about foreigners who hate America and want to saddle us with an obvious psychopath like Trump.

Selma Blair has MS, she's not making any more movies. Islam is no more dangerous than any other religion. Plenty of Christian nut jobs out there.

Only because once I disclose the names, then my personal info would easily be available to anyone. For one company, NASA used to use my home address as the company headquarters in the early days, so I got all the mail.

Yeah. High stock market, low unemployment, manufacturing up, inflation. A robust economy in America. That's a real problem - for China. Say, are you one of those foreigners who hates Biden?

The Republicans have a chaotic border policy. They complain, but do nothing.

In other words, the border is not a crisis, it can wait until 2025.

Pretty much, except Mexico has a lot more crime.

The PRA forbids an outgoing president from taking any official documents anywhere.

From the same article: "On November 2, 2022, Joe Biden's personal attorneys found classified documents dating to his vice presidency, some of which were top secret sensitive compartmented information, in a locked closet while packing files at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a think tank where Biden worked after leaving the government in 2017." Locked closet.