Re: Space Islands ET Space Station
Peter et. al,
Peter Vollrath wrote:
>
> > Some of you may have heard of the "Space Island" concept to utilize
> > exhausted fuel tanks from the Shuttle linked together as rotating rings in
> > the 300-400 mile level. My specific project is to convert one or more of
> > these tanks to The InterPlanetary Cathedral for our parishioners to pray in and
> > for the
> > First Wedding Ceremony in Space to be conducted.
>
> > There is much more info on our project at the links below. If anyone has
> > worked on the engineering of this concept, let's hear about it.
>
> You should contact Gene Meyers of Spacelife Publishing
> P.O. Box 814 WestCovina CA 91793. His father was a pioneer of this concept. Sorry
> I don't have his email.
Peter, I think you got that a little confused. Gene wrote a book called
"ET Solutions" and hyped up a lot of influential people in California on
the idea of funding a California "space program" using shuttle derived
unmanned launchers to build a multi ET space station. I communicated
with Gene quite extensively a few years back and I am pretty sure that
his father had nothing to do with the ETs. Gene did use his father's
inheritance to fund the publishing of his book though. The basic
premise of a ET derived space station is pretty sound and many people
have tried to make a go of reusing the ETs. But my evaluation of the
situation is that NASA and Lockheed Martin (who builds the ET) are not
going to allow any commercial reuse of the ET despite a directive from
President Regan directing them to allow it. Many have tried, but the
ones that got closest (had shuttle flight commitments) have long since
given up and moved on to other projects.
Here are a few veterans of the ET battles:
Mark Holderman <mark.l.holderman1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (may even be able to put
you in touch with Gene Meyers
Tom Taylor <ttaylor505@xxxxxxx>
Tom Rogers (no e-mail, best to contact via Space Transportation
Association, Arlington, VA)
Perry Marks <pmarks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<http://www.primenet.com/~pmarks/>
(760) 246-8841
He created the Space Islands web site and graphics/animations that Gene
used to promote his ET Space Station project.
<http://www.brushmarks.com/multimedia/space/>
(From my last conversation with Perry, he was not happy about Gene's
misrepresentation of his work)
I and many others had high hopes for this project, but Gene never got
anything more out of this than to sell his books.
PS: I like the idea of the first wedding chapel in orbit. The father of
the bride would really have a astronomical bill to pay. :) As for the
cathedral, I wonder if anyone has approached the Mormons about building
an orbital temple? Or for that matter any of the major religious
organizations? Once one did it, the rest would rush to out do the
others with a bigger and more elaborate one.
--
Mark Reiff <mreiff1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Gratuitous political statement, look here ->
<http://www.earthlink.net/~markreiff/pork.jpg>
"I think we are all trying too hard to push space
versus finding the pulls that attract people and their money."
"The heavens reward great deeds, not excuses."
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