In this episode, Senior Fellow in Defense Studies Peter Garretson interviews Bill Bruner, CEO and co-founder of New Frontier Frontier Aerospace.  They discuss New Frontier Aerospace's vision of a reusable rocket-based mach-8 hypersonic suborbital cargo system. The discussion covers the Space Force doctrine, X-15, DC-X, seams in air and space power projection, Space Tourism's recent successes with Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, equity concerns with billionaire rocket programs and their answer, Space Force's Rocket Cargo program, China's hypersonic program, the movement and settlement of space, commercial roles, the drive of commercial space to make humanity multiplanetary, advanced space propulsion, and next steps for U.S. space policy.

Bill Bruner:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-bruner-490b098

https://dbb.defense.gov/Members/Bill-Bruner/

New Frontier Aerospace

https://www.nfaero.com/

National Security Implications of Inexpensive Space Access

https://fas.org/spp/eprint/bruner.htm

FAST Space Study

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3193/1

https://www.maxwell.af.mil/News/Display/Article/2384716/acsc-schriever-space-scholars-expands-to-meet-demand-for-space-studies/

Rocket Cargo:

https://www.afrl.af.mil/News/Article/2646782/department-of-the-air-force-announces-fourth-vanguard-program/

https://www.airforcemag.com/rocket-cargo-air-force-fourth-vanguard/

https://www.defensedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/post_attachment/157919.pdf

Chinese Hypersonics (airbreathing):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzNhrUQ_Qls

Al Globus' High Frontier: An Easier Way

https://www.amazon.com/High-Frontier-Easier-Way-ebook/dp/B07FYWM41W

NASA Nuclear Thermal:

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-announces-nuclear-thermal-propulsion-reactor-concept-awards

DARPA Nuclear Thermal:

https://www.darpa.mil/program/demonstration-rocket-for-agile-cislunar-operations

Dusty Plasma Fission Fragment Rocket Engine:

https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/718391main_Werka_2011_PhI_FFRE.pdf

X-15

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/60th/x-15/

DC-X

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/dc-x-the-nasa-rocket-that-inspired-spacex-and-blue-origin

AFWERX

https://afwerx.com/