"Using the material and energy resources of space to improve the human condition on Earth."
-Gerard K. O’Neill
Opinion
Heading to D.C. with Pete Worden? Swing over to NASA Ames first with SSI
This week Dr. Peter Worden, United States Air Force Brigadier-General (retired), Director of NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field (retired 2015), Executive Director of Project Starshot, and many other more-than-a-human-lifetime achievements, will be welcoming...
Stupidity and Ignorance are not the same things. Ignorances can be fixed. Stupidity is not doing it.
It all seems rather obvious and easy. Returning natural samples to Earth for analysis is fundamentally important to the goal of using the resources of space to improve the Human condition on Earth. Returning beneficial products that can only be manufactured off-Earth...
Spin. Spin. Spin. Three linked reasons.
Spin. For the importance of it: "People have a naive faith (fueled by media or science fiction) that on the Moon, or elsewhere in space, life can be ‘continued’ with some ’adjustments,’” he said. “There are more issues and the question is a little bit more...
Have you seen this? Bet you have, but not this way. 1976 MIT Space Colony Systems Design
To a Librarian, every protocol-followed, clinically-cataloged, environmentally-protected and filed-away asset has a real Human story. The asset on this page has many Human stories. There is one story for each of its original contributors and one for every work day...
October 4th. A day that will forever live in History
Happy Anniversary of a revolutionary event! "On October 4, 2004, the Ansari XPRIZE was won by Mojave Aerospace Ventures, successfully completing the contest in their spacecraft SpaceShipOne." Here's a pic of Burt Rutan, Anne Hudson and SSI President Gary Hudson taken...
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