Space News01.28.12

Jan 29, 2012

SpaceX

• Improved Merlin Engines– Increased capability for Falcon heavy and future

systems• Reusable launch systems• Elon Musk plans to put millions of people on

Mars• Reason magazine feature on New Space age

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Rocket Men

• Elon Musk (SpaceX)• Richard Branson (Virgin Galactic)• Jeff Greason (XCor)• Peter Diamandis (prize giver)• Charles Simonyi (passenger)• Robert Bigelow (space habitats)• John Carmack (Armadillo Aerospace)• Dana Rohrabacher (Legislator)• George Nield (FAA proponent)

Nasa studies propellant depots

Putting up propellant depots

Fuel Depot and Lunar missions

Project Bifrost

Dawn Mission to Vesta

A wealth of habitable planets