His grandfather was Edgar Salin, an historian/economist/philosopher at Basel, Switzerland and a leader of the so-called "Historical School" of political and social philosophy.

[5] A NASA bibliography on the Shuttle described it as:[6] The authors of this lengthy article assert that confused and short-sighted decisions dominated by political expediency have been made about the U.S. space program for the past 30 years.

The history of commercial aircraft development offers an alternative example of producing a range of sizes and capabilities for a wide variety of users and shows that the space transportation industry could benefit from applying the decision-making processes used in private enterprise.

The authors examine strategies for privatization of the Shuttle and conclude that policy support for the commercial launch industry must be continued.

Therefore, the inventions of buying and selling electronically - ecommerce - entered public domain and became the basis for other enterprises such as eBay, Priceline and Amazon.

[11][3] He was a science fiction fan,[citation needed] and his major influences and favorite writers included Robert A. Heinlein, Friedrich Hayek, Karl Popper, Ludwig von Mises and other Austrian economists and political philosophers.

[citation needed] Salin's wife and business partner in rocket company ARC Technologies and the American Information Exchange (AMiX) was author[12] Gayle Pergamit.