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Unintended Consequences and Avoidable Ones
Share this image. Share this need. This is important. Blind Faith has no place in mission-critical engineering and Human lives are mission-critical to the Humanization of...
Why is the org into the “most far flung ideas” the one org pushing for the most important near-term work?
Someone is finally at least talking about starting some kind of Reduced Gravity test hardware! SpaceX? No. Blue Origin? Nope. Boeing+Lockheed=ULA? Nah. ESA? NASA? No and for the...
Yellow, Grey and Brown
Back during the holiday break, about when a young researcher was looking for overview pointers on closed loops, I came across an Irish government proposal on human waste...
Nothing new under the sun, alas
Comments on the previous post brought this little item to mind, Gerard K. O'Neill on a why of the Space Studies Institute. The age old...
from the SSI Facebook page
you don't need a facebook account to view the latest SSI posts. just click https://www.facebook.com/SpaceStudiesInstitute and scroll past the nag banners. Question: Are the...
Small World
Around Sand Hill Road you see lots of odd books under people's arms. It's an unusual location with the SLAC on one side of the street and the rows of 1980s styled venture capital...
MEGA Progress
Here's a nice video by Bloomberg with recent news about the Mach Effect Gravity Assist (MEGA) thruster work underway in the lab and around the world. Before we get to the Star...
Hear it in context
Recent magazine articles, blogs and documentaries have passed along snippets, this weekend turn up the speaker on your phone and hear the entire message, start-to-finish, in...
Advanced Propulsion Workshop 2020
The Estes Park Advanced Propulsion Workshop took place online this year. Dr. Hal Fearn organized and led the workshop. Video proceedings are on SSI's YouTube channel. Playlist...
In case you hadn't heard…
All of the "Lost" 1976 Space Manufacturing Summer Study recordings have been cleaned up and are now waiting for you on the SSI Soundcloud Channel. Plus there's GKON on Good, Evil...