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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Category: Fiction Reviewed by: Bart Leahy From Ad Astra Winter 2008 Title: Return to Luna: Stories from the Lunar Settlements Editor: Eric L. Reynolds NSS...
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Shortsighted, reckless plan: Cutting NASA’s budget would hurt economy BY ROBERT HOPKINS in Florida Today Hertzfeld observed, although immense, the economic value of these space-based...
Twelfth International Mars Society Convention will be at University of Maryland, College Park on July 30 – August 2, 2009 Multiple C-Span videos of the...
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...
A commentary on the future of the american space program...
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...
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