I don't know if this would be good for Single stage to tether
http://www.spacefellowship.com/News/?p=1676

DIRECT: An alternative to Ares I and Ares V:
http://www.directlauncher.com/

If the site is unreachable, try this:
http://www.launchcomplexmodels.com/Direct/

And the key document itself is available at any of these three URLs:
http://www.hays.cc/direct/DIRECT_Launcher_Release_v1.0.4.pdf
http://www.directlauncher.com/doc/DIRECT_Launcher_Release_v1.0.4.pdf
http://simcosmos.planetaclix.pt/temp/Direct/DIRECT_Launcher_Release_v1.0.4.pdf


Misc:

http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/778/lm3jt9.jpg
One of the three LM Lunar lander concepts

The Lockheed Martin Lunar Lander Configurations (PDF 2MB) document is now online:

Look at the N-1
http://www.rolfstabroth.de/
http://www.ipms-phx.org/

Space elevator--a good payload for Direct
http://www.lulu.com/content/440980

Nice model--and I'm not talking about the rockets.
http://www.cjsaviation.com/

From:
http://www.spacefellowship.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=22046#22046

And that's being civil

If you had that--who needs an SE?

Space elevator
http://www.lulu.com/content/440980

Good links.

Seconded. It would be nice.

Lets hope for more advances.

Glenn Beck had the head of JetBlue talking about just such a project today.

Interesting points.

Cold gas thrusters are popular with military research these days. No source of heat to give one's self away.

Ares Models:
http://www.countdowncreations.com/replnpares.htm

Less pricy products:
http://www.diskoverydisks.com/PurchasePage.html

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/spacecraft/ares_naming.html

Nice links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_%28Rocket%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Derived_Launch_Vehicle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_1

Almost over:
http://www.aero.org/conferences/sclv/

Misc:
http://www.efluids.com/efluids/pages/j_midpages/j_of_spacecraft_and_rock.htm

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/CASS_home.html



http://www.newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=90251#90251
http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php?t=33414&page=3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_%28Rocket%29

OT
http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/06/26/Navigation/200/207423/FAA+report+reveals+details+of+Blue+Origin+space+tourism+vehicle+planned+by+Amazoncom+founder+Jeff.html

ESAS report (Lengthy download warning)
http://users.wpi.edu/~aiaa/esas/ESAS.REPORT.05.PDF

Products:
http://www.diskoverydisks.com/PurchasePage.html

Free model
http://www.delta7studios.com/images/columbiamod.pdf

From the web:

"Lifting Bodies" A story of wingless aircraft. It's put out by Wes Oleszewski. The jacket says it has 316 pqges plus movies and sound clips.It's formatted as a PowerPoint slideshow and the disc is supposed to have a free PowerPoint viewer includedhere it is directly from MS:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=428D5727-43AB-4F24-90B7-A94784AF71A4&displaylang=en

or *http://tinyurl.com/6b6g5 if the above wraps and breaks.


OT
R.E. Gold, 'SHIELD: a comprehensive earth protection architecture', Advanced Space Research, vol 28, 2001, pp1149-158

Interesting.

CaLV will be an enormous help in deploying any tether. The less assembly you have--the better off you will be. Fewer, longer tether segments are simply easier to deal with. I would be supporting Griffin's VSE, if I were you.

CaLV to the rescue:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/spacecraft/ares_naming.html

Better yet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_%28Rocket%29