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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...
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...
Professor Freeman Dyson, RIP
Freeman Dyson, Space Studies Institute trustee and president emeritus, has passed. Rest in peace, Professor. We will miss your insights and wisdom. Freeman Dyson, Visionary...
History Made Today By Blue Origin.
We sincerely hope that the amazing team at Blue Origin doesn't mind our sharing these pictures from today's record-setting part of Human History. Smartly Done, Smartly Done....
There’s An O’Neill Colony in San Francisco
The Bay Area is beautiful this time of year. The trees in all of the parks are nearly turned and soon that legendary romantic, film noir fog will be making the Golden Gate Bridge...
SSI 50: The Space Settlement Enterprise Video Collection
Professional organizations release conference videos for folks who couldn't make the trips themselves, but professional viewers have to remember that there is a human downside to...
SSI 50: The Videos!
September 9th and 10th, 2019 at the Museum of Flight In Seattle, The Space Studies Institute presented SSI 50: The Space Settlement Enterprise. Two focused days with ten...
Jeff Bezos on O’Neill Cylinders
Where does Jeff Bezos foresee putting space colonists? Inside O’Neill cylinders "SpaceX’s Elon Musk wants to settle humans on Mars. Others talk about a Moon Village. But Seattle...