A boost from balloons?

Des Emery, St. Thomas, ON., Canada — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:28:21 GMT

Alan - keep on blogging items like this to show how widespread the urge to get into space has become for us. One way or another, we'll make it eventually, and it will be a joint effort bringing many different views into focus, using the appropriate bits and pieces from each isolated advance.

A boost from balloons?

densell calif — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:34:58 GMT

Remember...........
The Wright brothers were scoffed at.

A boost from balloons?

steve smyth — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:28:10 GMT

at least this guy is telling the truth...telecomsats...that's what it's all about...space tourism is a hoax...look at it that way, people love seeing through bogosity

A boost from balloons?

Wayne, TN — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:54:40 GMT

I've read that before Communications satellites became feasible they used a burst transmission system which tracked incoming meteors and reflected a signal off them, there are many such unseen meteors every day.
Data, super compressed, would be transmited in bursts of microseconds.

A boost from balloons?

Darnell Clayton, SC — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:59:54 GMT

If you looked up the world "quit" in Michael Laine's dictionary, you would probably find it missing...along with the entire page!

This guy has a greater hunger for space than half our country...something congress could really use right now.