Post by wstanford on Aug 22, 2014 1:05:31 GMT
About10 years ago there was a competition called the X-Prize that I wanted to enter a winning spacecraft into. I decided, designed and engineered (complete with therodynamic simulations and nozzle optimization) a linear, solid-propellant design that was a true rocket based on the same propellant as teh Shuttle Boosters.
However due to my long-time chronic illness, I was unable to seek funding to build it in time to compete. However it was designed, just not built. In the mean time, I lost the designs a long with my company. I am in the process of, from memory compiling the original design and seeking funding and the right human resources to build it as kind of a cessna of spacecraft anticipating that NASA and even some foreign governments would like to build their own native space programs, as the Daedalus is technically a space vehicle capable of duplicating the early Mercury missions.
With a sticker price of $1 Million, full reusability (with quick refurb) and only $20,000 to fly I can not just see the adventure seeker buying, leasing or renting one of these trainers but also various space agencies that are looking for more real suborbital hours for their astronauts and other personel.
I'm posting the sketches of my design as I remember them. After this I will have them transfered to 3D autocad and all of the critical dimetions modelled so I can say "yes, this is what my original design was" so I have something risk-managed to show potential investors.
I have just reciently been classified as a "sophisticated investor" by a reputable company, so I'm very excited about the possibility of raising that $3 Million to start the development, testing, manufacture and finally launching a space vehicle that the average (upper-middle class) man or woman can buy and fly out-right.
Anyways, that's it for now. Remember that these sketches do represent actual trade secrets of my company and that duplication of them, without correct licencing, may or may not result in litigation. However, I wish to share these things with you to inspire and hopefully cause you to suppoert the private space industry as it is emerging in such companies as SpaceX and Virgin Galactic.
However due to my long-time chronic illness, I was unable to seek funding to build it in time to compete. However it was designed, just not built. In the mean time, I lost the designs a long with my company. I am in the process of, from memory compiling the original design and seeking funding and the right human resources to build it as kind of a cessna of spacecraft anticipating that NASA and even some foreign governments would like to build their own native space programs, as the Daedalus is technically a space vehicle capable of duplicating the early Mercury missions.
With a sticker price of $1 Million, full reusability (with quick refurb) and only $20,000 to fly I can not just see the adventure seeker buying, leasing or renting one of these trainers but also various space agencies that are looking for more real suborbital hours for their astronauts and other personel.
I'm posting the sketches of my design as I remember them. After this I will have them transfered to 3D autocad and all of the critical dimetions modelled so I can say "yes, this is what my original design was" so I have something risk-managed to show potential investors.
I have just reciently been classified as a "sophisticated investor" by a reputable company, so I'm very excited about the possibility of raising that $3 Million to start the development, testing, manufacture and finally launching a space vehicle that the average (upper-middle class) man or woman can buy and fly out-right.
Anyways, that's it for now. Remember that these sketches do represent actual trade secrets of my company and that duplication of them, without correct licencing, may or may not result in litigation. However, I wish to share these things with you to inspire and hopefully cause you to suppoert the private space industry as it is emerging in such companies as SpaceX and Virgin Galactic.
