Book Review: A Future Spacefaring Society
We are at the cusp of building an orbital industrial infrastructure and establishing human settlements in space. This book investigates what it takes to do that.
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Here is Mike Snead’s Presentation from the Space Solar Power Track at the ISDC. It is a great analysis of future energy needs and availability....
Should India and the US cooperate on space solar power? by Taylor Dinerman If the US has a serious medium-term need for a very large...
Space Expectations Survey (closed) by A Cosmic Study by the International Academy of Astronautics. Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans committee istaking comments and...
Space policy 101: civil space 2009 by Dwayne Day One of the inherent features of bureaucracies is that they deal poorly with uncertainty. In a...
Mission Control, This Is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon by Andrew Chaikin, with Victoria Kohl, Illustrated by Alan Bean. Reviewed...
I would like to thank Ian Murphy from blogging from the ISDC and all is PR work for the ISDC. I would like to thank...
The Space Solar power track at the ISDC took place on Friday afternoon and Sunday morning with John Mankins receiving an award and making a...
I have had a great time at the ISDC. The Space Ambassadors Reception and Fireworks on Thursday Partying until I get kicked out of the...
Garver served 9 years as Executive Director of the National Space Society Washington, DC – Tuesday, May 26, 2009 – The National Space Society (NSS)...
Bolden’s burdens by Jeff Foust The announcement, when it did come, was something of an anticlimax. A little over a week earlier Bolden’s name emerged...
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