re inflatable mile long space billboards was re vandalizing the sky in article yamauchi apr yuggoth ces cwru edu yamauchi ces cwru edu brian yamauchi writes nasa would provide contractual launch services however since nasa bases its charge on seriously flawed cost estimates wn mar the taxpayers would bear most of the expense this may look like environmental vandalism but mike lawson ceo of space marketing told us yesterday that the real purpose of the project is to help the environment the platform will carry ozone monitors he explained advertising is just to help defray costs this may be the purpose for the university of colorado people my guess is that the purpose for the livermore people is to learn how to build large inflatable space structures the cu people have been and continue to be big ozone scientists so this is consistent it is also consistent with the new comercial applications that nasa and clinton are pushing so hard is nasa really supporting this junk did anyone catch the rocket that was launched with a movie advert all over it i think the rocket people got alot of for painting up the sides with the movie stuff what about the coke pepsi thing a few years back nasa has been trying to find ways to get other people into the space funding business for some time frankly i ve thought about trying it too when the funding gets tight only the innovative get funded one of the things nasa is big on is co funding if a pi can show co funding for any proposal that proposal has a significantly higher probability of being funded than a proposal with more merit but no co funding once again money talks h d stevens stanford university email hdsteven sun valley stanford edu aerospace robotics laboratory phone lab durand building bullpen stanford ca fax
