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Rocket Dreams

Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion Dollar Space Race

• Christian Davenport . Multco . 919.904 D2471r . 2025

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Part I: Earth, 2016-2018

• p011 Ch.01 - "I Get This Angry Twice in a Year"

• p011 2017 March 1 Oscar - Manchester by the Sea
• p012 "study hall", 6 page document, 30 minutes reading

• p014 Moon not cold dead rock, instead potential oasis, water in shadowed south pole craters

  • wp hydrates, est. 10 to 1000 ppm, 2025 PRIME-1 mission

  • actually IM-2 mission, PRIME-1 payload of a drill and mass spectrometer ... failed landing, no useful data

• p015 Pence National Space Council

• p017 Shenzhou "Divine" capsule

• p017 Shenzhou 5 mission claimed flawless, actually injurous gees

• p017 cleanup, fake second hatch opening

• p018 Chang'e-1 mapped lunar surface

• p018 2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile test

• p018 Chang'e 3 lander 2023/12

• p019 lunar helium, Schmitt 2011, pdf

• p023 Musk wanted for NASA Mars plan
• p025 Bezos wanted NASA Moon plan

• p026 Ch.02 - Elon's Real Superpower

• p026 Musk taunts Bezos, Blue Origin not moving fast enough
  • uh ... Gradatim Ferociter
• p026 2013 SpaceX granted right to lease Launch Complex 39A
• p027 Musk mantra focus on customers, not competitors
  • yet it seems Davenport focuses on a "competition" with SpaceX already the winner
• p027 Amazon "Get Big Fast", compares 2016 Blue Origin 700 to (NASA funded) SpaceX with 5500
• p028 Blue Origin before 2016 bid as subcontractor, "from now go after SpaceX bids"

• p029 Charles Miller "What can you do relative to the moon by 2020?"

• p029 Brett Alexander

• p029 "Landing on the moon was far more difficult than landing on Earth"

  • no, different, but easier with proper infrastructure. Earth escape energy is 63 MJ/kg, lunar escape velocity energy is 2.8 MJ/kg ... 22 times less energy to dissipate, with no atmosphere to constrain the solution. An "inverse launch loop" track could shed that lunar arrival kinetic energy in d=E/a distance; for acceleration a=20 m/s², d=140 km, time =. Decelerating a few incoming vehicles wouldn't pay for the track, but one per minute is half a million per year. <nbsp> In detail, a Hohmann transfer orbit ellipse from Earth radius perigee 6500 km (122 km equatorial altitude) to lunar orbit radius apogee ( r = 385000 km equatorial altitude). Estimate perigee launch velocity as approximately Earth escape velocity 11.2 km/s; from conservation of angular momentum the apogee velocity is approximately (6500 km / 385000 km )*11200 m/s ≈ 190 m/s . That is not much energy difference compared to lunar escape energy.

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Part II: Earth Orbit, 2018-2020

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Part III: Beyond, 2020-2025

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