Bob Clark points me to a couple of recent posts on his Polymath blog regarding manned space vehicle policies at NASA and ESA:
- On the lasting importance of the SpaceX accomplishment, Page 5: a letter to the European space industry – He “argues that Europe by emulating NASA’s commercial space program can produce a manned spaceflight capability and produce a launcher of comparable low cost to the Falcon 9”
- Budget Moon Flights: letter to NASA – Here he “argues that by following a combination of the commercial space and other cost-cutting approaches, the cost of a Moon mission can be cut perhaps by three orders of magnitude”