SpaceCraftManShip Journeying ...
a child of Goddess Moon, born in circular whole-sum-ness of nurture and nature.
you young journeyers from Nordhoff High too will unfold unimaginable lives of artistry and exploration ... limited only by the depths of your inner wells of peace ... gift of mountain and river, chaparral and oak, scrub jay and bluebelly at play.
my first two years away from the valley these hands 'only' learned to assemble electronics circuits, to type at a typewriter, to program a computer, and repair TVs and stereos.
arriving in 1975 and UC Berkeley Space Sciences, I was given the chance to 'try out' those soldering skills on the S3-3 space plasma probe satellite. [apparently I made no serious errors ...]
then 1976 to help in the assembly of the now-famous ISEE (Intl Sun Earth Explorer) spaceprobe, later renamed and re-commissioned the ICE, Intl Cometary Explorer.
the 1980s did not provide much hands-on with spacecraft, accept art and designs and business plans on the computer. it wasn't until 1989 and 1990 that I worked on the Liberty expendable rocket, then the 'SkyRocket' rocketplane, both Gary Hudson designs. also on the OTS electromagnetic co-axial launcher.
my contribution to the Roton VTOVL (vertical takeoff vertical lander) project was in 1996-97, at which point I moved my work to Aotearoa/New Zealand ... land of the long white (ultraviolet) cloud.
in 1999 I finally got around, age 44, to solving the rocket equations -- previously relying on the work of my elder/mentors Hudson, Gomersall, Sanger, Salkeld, Bono, Woodcock and others. thus I launched FireShips International Ltd, and promoted an air-refueled spaceplane service for Hamilton New Zealand.
for someone whose goals were intimately linked with technology and money, the knowledge that the energy cost to deliver one kilogram to orbit was only 20 cents -- compared to the $20,000 that NASA charged -- this awareness of physics and (political) economics was a great driver.
the Year 2000 brought the attentions of the Times of London, and radio and press worldwide, and the publication of my "SpacePlane Equation" editorial. in the following year, in my TV studio at Waikato University, I 'sculpted' essentially all of the X49 plasmajet spaceplane designs in Cinema 4D, aired them locally, and circulated them worldwide.
see spaceplane designs and concepts at:
back in California and Japan in subsequent years, witness no hands-on and no significant spacecraft design work in this decade.
the StarShip designs are only roughly illustrated and conceived, and though much of the interstellar flight physics is finished, the final design of the propulsion systems (integrated with body/fuselage shape) has yet to be 'penned', sketched, revealed ...
to all our sacred relations.
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Comments (5)
A lot of those pictures are of phallic objects. Also, your mentors strangely have names you might find in a raunchy porno: ie; "Hudson, Gomersall, Sanger, Bono, Woodcock"
Strange Days have fallen...
Comment #1 Posted by: Space Odd | March 25, 2008 06:10 PM
shouldnt this be in your bio?
Comment #2 Posted by: Anonymous | March 26, 2008 09:12 AM
Choice! Sweet! Beaut! that's Cracka Twain! from one pommy to the next you always did give the academy a big shakin!
Comment #3 Posted by: John W. | March 26, 2008 12:47 PM
is that you, Woodie, late of Her Majesty's MI5?
as you know, I certainly never believed all of what the media and schools and colleges and universities and governments tried to pass off as knowledge -- my personal reading and studies were usually far in advance of what the 'academies' were feeding us -- so yes I have always had to sort out the wheat from the chaff.
so many of my 'failures' came from believing far to much of the gangster (medical, scientific, banker, ad nauseum) propaganda.
and, yes again, the aerospace (and later physics) 'warmanship' guilds always got (and get) a rough ride from me.
Comment #4 Posted by: Millennium | March 26, 2008 08:59 PM
and don't those spinners love ya for it, and your whole pommy world.
that's MI6 by the by.
Comment #5 Posted by: John W. | March 27, 2008 05:53 PM