Rick Tumlinson

The Role of Government in a New American Space Agenda

by Rick Tumlinson February 23, 2011 Advocacy

The time for the bold is now, not just on the launch pads of New Space but within the government space community as well. It’s time for a New American Space Agenda, and so I, Rick Tumlinson, humbly offer five points of purpose and possibility for change in our national approach to opening space…

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Happy Holidays from the Space Frontier Foundation!

by Rick Tumlinson November 25, 2010 Advocacy

In this period of Thanksgiving and giving in general, I want to thank you for what you have given to us. Thank you for your support in the form of writing, calling and sending out the message; thank you for standing up – even when its uncomfortable; thank you for volunteering your valuable time; and thank you for your donations.

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The Frontier Family – You Are Not Alone

by Rick Tumlinson November 25, 2010 Advocacy

As we enter the holiday season and for a moment put aside thoughts of frontiers and battling both gravity and governments, we turn towards our families and friends and concerns that are much more….shall I say…down to Earth.

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Griffin’s Constellation Zombie

by Rick Tumlinson October 26, 2010 Advocacy

Sometimes our space program is like a bad zombie movie. As our heroes try and make it through the night, one by one they are picked off by the walking dead. So goes the new space agenda, designed to correct the flaws of the past and breath new life into our human exploration plans, as it faces off with the walking corpse of the Constellation program and its defenders, who are determined to gradually eat away at it until it too joins them in the never ending carnage of our dying dreams to open the frontier of space.

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The Rise of the New “Frontier” Movement

by Rick Tumlinson October 12, 2010 Advocacy

The US space program is in the midst of a historic revolution. The White House’s plan to hand over low Earth orbit activities to the rising US commercial space sector and focus the agency on far ranging exploration goals is a complete re-set of our space program.

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Battle for the Frontier – An Important Moment

by Rick Tumlinson September 30, 2010 Advocacy

What is at stake in the battle for the Frontier is whether the United States will lead the world into space using its most important and powerful weapon and tool, you – the people, or relinquish itself to second or third world status by repeating the failed policies of the past.

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NASA’s Constellation Hallucination and the Congressional Money Drug

by Rick Tumlinson September 11, 2010 Advocacy

In the coming weeks some in Congress will try to kill America’s future in space as they desperately work to prop up the tax sucking, pork eating, dreamslaying monster known as the Constellation rocket program. Right now a bought and paid for cabal of hypocritical puppets in the House and Senate are trying to prop up this corpse of a dead end plan to go to the Moon and Mars that not only failed to deliver on President Bush’s promise of a permanent US presence in space, but continues to eat the budgets of the very exploration it was meant to support.

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The Constellation Hallucination

by Rick Tumlinson June 14, 2010 Advocacy

The Constellation hallucination is almost over, and the flight of the Falcon 9 is the first wake-up call for those lost in its magic Kool-Aid trance. The thunderous roar and blazing light of the SpaceX rocket completely belied the promises of doom foretold by the cult of cost-plus and the priesthood of the PowerPoint pioneer.

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The Fine Art of Angel Shooting

by Rick Tumlinson April 7, 2010 Uncategorized

As Published in the Huffington Post 04/05/10 Do check out my blog there and tell your friends! Let’s make NewSpace known! The Fine Art of Angel Shooting Rick Tumlinson President Obama bet his legacy on the American people’s ability to innovate and create so the US remains the most vital and creative nation in the [...]

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Change is Coming to NASA Space Launch

by Rick Tumlinson March 19, 2010 Advocacy

Change is coming to the US space program. At last! Real, dramatic and tangible change in both its effect and the course it will create in this nation’s future in space. It is long past time for us to try something different, as what we have been doing in our human space program since Apollo has been a failure of epic proportions.

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