Actually, it's just me, Cris Fitch, at the moment. My brother the test pilot may at some point join me, and I have an interesting network of friends who share many of these same interests. Technical progress is a passion well termed "hubris", and we have lots of it.

I am from a generation which grew up with the glory of Apollo full in our faces. Although I've always been the computer kid in the group, my passion for this civilization's future in space is great.

I went to college at MIT in the early 1980's, and came to learn that for the future to get here, people like myself have to go out and make it happen. And frankly I'm disappointed with where we are today in space. Where are those moon bases, orbiting colonies, and expeditions to Mars? What about the Asteroid Belt and the moons of Jupiter?

This new computer and networking technology may help. Ideas, such as the utilization of the Shuttle's External Tank for on orbit operations, can be popularized and debated. And maybe we'll even get off our butts and put some hardware up. Who knows?