Yellow Dragon, a mission to repurpose existing ideas into new ideas

We need to cost this out

The Wastewater to drinking water plants has sunk costs the plant would need to be expanded to treat freshwater

It would be our duty to destroy everything in the reverse osmosis brine leaving only the brine salts

Starship ISS disassembly proposal

Disassemble ISS components in 2027 through 2032, some components are stored in Starship pressurized compartments others in the depressurized section

could be used as a part of a starship space station

Starship could store and use end-of-mission Cygnus spacecraft

small fission reactor cogeneration of power from radiator heat and its application to a NEP system?

small reactor radiator inside a repurposed upper stage propellant tank

Propellent tank with Noble gasses powers a bank of sterling engines with enough power to run a NEP system?

RTGs have a bad SEP equivalency of wet/dry mass

A small fission reactor and stage would weigh more than RTG,s, right?

So trades studies 🙂 I think the small fission reactor radiator is putting out a lot of thermal heat more then a deep space mission needs to power instruments

We test this first as human mission directorate surface power

We test a deep-space version at Gateway, this version becomes the deepspace decadal version

Dry mass small fission reactor cogenerative power source for a NEP system

Dry mass (A)(1) converted cryogenic upper stage (2) mass of small fission reactor.(3) mass of noble gasses.(4)mass of sterling engines recovering reactor radiator heat

(B)(1)Wet mass; Noble gasses and the propellant tanks and feed lines for the NEP engines.

(B)(2) TOF time of fight under a cogenerative augmented scenario?

does it close?

SFR OWL Titan Balloon probe

Small Fission Reactor (SFR) Over Whelmingly large Titan Ballon probe

Uses the radiator to heat and inflate the balloon probe

A first journey through the clouds, a formative memory

One of my earliest memories is that of my very first trip in an aircraft. I was about 5 years of age or so, and the scene from the window of the plane is a vivid one. The plane took off from my hometown of San Diego and the plane must have taken off to the west into the wind because I remember seeing to the north the homes and the shoreline of the Ocean and Pacific beach communities, and just a bit north of that, my home in La Jolla. Below and to the north, surf and breakers did their battle of the ages with the shoreline. Out in front was the vast blue of the pacific and just then the plane went through the cloud deck that often lingers just off the beach in Southern California. What a shock! The aircraft was in a fog that whipped past the plane’s wings and the window and just as suddenly I could see the first cloud tops as my plane broke through the top of the clouds. The billowy white cloud tops were entrancing as it reached towards the blue above. The aircraft was in a valley of clouds as it flew through the sky and then again suddenly through the fog and out into the blue again. After a time the aircraft was above the valleys and mountains of clouds and I could see in between the billows of cloud tops below to the ocean beneath. I do not recollect much else of this trip, I am told we landed in Rome Italy several oceans later and I do remember old buildings and a farm with a colony of bees. In fact, the memory still persists of “old town” in San Diego, it is here in old town that the old Spanish colonial buildings house museums. Old buildings together with the sea and cliffs I think contribute to who I am, someone who visualizes the trip through both time and space that all things make. I know now that my Foster parents at the time of my first trip worked at a soon to be opened University of California at San Diego in 1964. The University of California at San Diego can be seen just before entering the fog above the sea as aircraft take off just south of La Jolla.

This first trip was with foster parents who had been recruited by the soon to be opened UCSD, they had been recruited from Italy and were making a trip to their home when I accompanied them.

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A first journey through the clouds, a formative memory

One of my earliest memories is that of my very first trip in an aircraft. I was about 5 years of age or so, and the scene from the planes window was a vivid one. The plane took off from my home town of San Diego with a flash of runway and a roar of noise from the engines. Just at liftoff I could feel the weight against me as the nose of the plane lifted up from the runway and after words for some minutes as we climbed over ocean beach California. The plane must have taken off to the west into the wind because I remember seeing to the north the homes and the shoreline of the Ocean and Pacific beach communities, and just a bit north of that, my home in La Jolla. Below and to the north, surf and breakers did their battle of with the ages and the elements trying to where down that shoreline. Had I been at the beach that day, or any other day I could have smelled the sulpher salty smell of the foamy surf. Out in front was the vast blue of the pacific and just then the plane went through the cloud deck that often lingers just off the beach in Southern California? What a shock! The aircraft was in a fog that whipped past the planes wings and the window and just as suddenly I could see the first cloud tops as my plane broke through the top of the clouds. The billowy white cloud tops where entrancing as it reached towards the blue above. The aircraft was in a valley of clouds as it flew through the sky and then again suddenly through fog and out into the blue valleys between the cloud mountains again. After a time the aircraft was above the valleys and mountains of clouds and I could see in between the billows of cloud tops below to the

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ocean beneath. I do not recollect much else of this trip, I am told we landed in Rome Italy several oceans later and I do remember old buildings and a farm with a colony of bees. The farm in Italy was a pea farm, and I remember the smell of crushed green peas and plants in the combine of the tractor, and an acrid sharp twang of odor coming from a sea of white beehives. This farm was in sharp contrast to our visit to Milan Italy, a gritty industrial city, whose downtown smelt like and looked like sooty diesel exhaust. In 1963 Italy was awash in old Mediterranean culture buildings and ruins covered with black grey soot. In fact the memory still persists of “old town” in San Diego, it is here in old town that the old Spanish colonial buildings house museums. Old buildings together with sea and cliffs I think contribute to who I am, someone who visualizes the trip through both time and space that all things make.

I know now that my parents at the time of my first trip worked at a soon to be opened University of California at San Diego in 1964. The University of California at San Diego can be seen just before entering the fog above the sea as aircraft take off just south of La Jolla.

I remember this trip often and recently I have come to believe that this memory has had a great influence on my interests and my journey through life and time. Just after high school I joined the Air force reserve and worked on aircraft engines just to learn how they work and to satisfy that love of all things aviation and spaceflight. I have over the decades devoured every text or PBS program on the great cycles of hydrology and geochemistry that tells the history of our planet. This life cycle of our planet can be best seen where the sea meets the cliffs of La Jolla. I am sure my fascination with the history of life comes from my first moments in the clouds since clouds feed all life. In the last decade I have from time to time worked on national oceanic and atmospheric

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administration (NOAA) fishery research ships out at sea. The life cycle and evolution of the seas excites my soul as much as knowing where the atmosphere comes from. I can sit in a tavern on the beach in San Diego or in Port Huron and imagine where every molecule of wind, surf and cloud has been in the last 4 billion years. Even the gasoline and natural gas that runs our cars and heats our homes has slept for just a few hundred million years in the rocks below since those molecules last saw the sunlight. Strange thoughts for an afternoon spent looking out the windows at the Zebra lounge out on the river and clouds of Port Huron? No these thoughts are not strange at all, these thoughts power my homework.

My favorite rock ballads sing of “stardust” and “dust in the wind” so its no surprise to me that I find my self taking courses here at ST Clair Community College in biology and geology. These courses will lead to a health care profession or the sciences, but I am sure I will

follow the lead of my soul that will remember that first flight through the biosphere. Those thoughts from that first flight will lead me to a position back out at sea on a research ship or perhaps Antarctica even if only as a health care worker. Or perhaps that wanderlust that is my affliction will lead me to do science in some remote beautiful desolation.

Often, I find myself thinking of policy issues, how to improve society. This semester, fall 2010 I am looking to improve the community college work force health care coverage and perhaps look for ways to add the community college to the answer to downtown Port Huron economic development, perhaps through building student housing and parking garages.

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Now days when I am back from the military or have returned from that ship at sea I will always take that seat on the right side of the aircraft facing the flight deck out of Lindbergh field in San Diego. It affords me that same view to the north up the coast line towards my childhood home of La Jolla. The University of California at San Diego is now open and has grown into a large presence from that aircraft window. UCSD is now surrounded by non profit research institutes that dot the shoreline above the cliffs of La Jolla while the residents of the community of ocean beach (OB!) complain of the noise of low flying jet aircraft as they pierce the low clouds as they head out to sea. When I am in “OB” I love to look up at the travelers above me making there way out to sea, are there people looking out in wonder at the world below? Are any of them young enough to be in wonderment for the first time? Will they remember their first trip through the mountains of fog? I always will.

Each apartment would own 1 share of the rooftop farmers cooperative and are entitled to a prorated share of the produce.

The secondary goal is to sell the product and to have a cottage industry permit for example fermenting pickles for sale at farmers’ markets

Saves time and space onboard the ISS or on exploration missions, this might save time by shortening growth times?

Am writing a new blog entry on how to reuse Falcon 9 second stage with payload fairing solar voltaic cells and a docking hatch. (A)(1) fly payload fairing on a Starlink mission, test longevity of the system(2) upgrade as needed on subsequent flights.

(3)Test payload fairing solar power to Falcon second stage battery upgrade battery and second stage avionics (use Dragon components)How long on orbit? loft Starlinks(fairings represent a payload penalty) (4) subsequent missions have a docking mechanism and carry cryogenic O2 and N2 to outgas the propellant tanks.(5) fly a commercial mission and then after payload deployment has a second launch of a Dragon to fly a standoff mission with the Second stage, possible docking attempt.

(A)(6) very large payload fairing on a super heavy without a payload with docking mechanism and solar arrays inside the deployed fairing, this is a retired super heavy to be reused as a wet lab space station.(7) Possssibly EVA to recover all the engines? board recovered super heavy engines onto Starship.

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Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

(A)(8) Retired Falcon first stage with a docking port and fairing without a second stage or payload, can it make orbit at 29.

Back up an idea, the second stage on a Starlink mission but jettison the fairings and add Dragon solar arrays and docking mechanisms to the second stage compare mass between the two.

Idea; Can the Falcon orbit a empty second stage? ( I think it cant)