Comments on: Blue Origin and planetary defense http://www.newspacejournal.com/2013/11/06/blue-origin-and-planetary-defense/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Fred Kiesche http://www.newspacejournal.com/2013/11/06/blue-origin-and-planetary-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-979061 Sun, 10 Nov 2013 12:33:38 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=2172#comment-979061 He could have easily been a fan of Michael Flynn’s “Firestar” series (which uses a ship very much derived from the DC-X. Or Victor Koman’s solo volume of “Kings of the High Frontier (which, oddly enough, I bought from Amazon), which featured a SSTO vehicle as well (private company launched).

]]> By: Name (required) http://www.newspacejournal.com/2013/11/06/blue-origin-and-planetary-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-968892 Thu, 07 Nov 2013 16:11:03 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=2172#comment-968892 “rockets powered by ground-based lasers” — sounds like Jeff Bezos was reading Jerry Pournelle’s “High Justice” and “Exiles to Glory” at the same time he was reading O’Neill’s “High Frontier”. Pournelle’s books also have a secretive private company using those methods to push things into orbit.

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