The daily feed reader stars and links post

• Starships Inc. status update - RLV and Space Transport (They plan to launch sub-orbital nanosats this year and orbital payloads within a year. I love F-104s. Update via NASA.)
• 50-man Space Base Crew - Beyond Apollo (Another unrealized space station plan.)
• Rocketarium released four oddrocs - X-shaped Vorlon's in 18mm and 24mm, a hexagonal saucer and an octagonal saucer.  The Vorticos spin on the way up and autorotate down without inverting.  These sound interesting but I get my saucer and spinning fixes from Art Applewhite.
• While talking about Art, I see he is offering his 36" Delta Saucer as a kit.
• There is a TRF thread discussing an interesting failure mode seen in a CTI reload. The rocket will boost, quickly burn out and then there will be a second boost phase.  The thread has 2 videos and a discussion of the phenomena. While there, check out the cook futuristic HPR design.