Isaac Arthur, recipient of the NSS Space Pioneer Award for Education via Mass Media, has posted this 20-minute video based on the first 12 milestones in the NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement.
Lunacy: A Book Review Essay
This long essay defends the NSS Vision against those who, like the author of the book being reviewed, think “we shouldn’t colonize Mars or the Moon, or even vacation there.” Ben Bramble, an Australian philosopher who teaches at Australian National University, has penned a YAASS (Yet Another Anti-Space-Settlement) book. These books are multiplying like flies, so space settlement advocates must be gaining ground to generate such an abundant response.
2 thoughts on “Becoming an Interplanetary Species”
Although the details of our future in space will undoubtedly be different, the vision, courage and drive will all be required as evidenced here.
Let’s get on with it!
Ed Gibson
Skylab III
NSS is not able to authenticate the authorship of this comment, but we hope it is really you, Ed!