"Using the material and energy resources of space to improve the human condition on Earth."
-Gerard K. O’Neill
Opinion
Joe Haldeman Essay: Peace From On High
Giant Space Settlements? Why? Science Fiction Grandmaster Joe Haldeman, creator of so many classics including The Hemingway Hoax, Camouflage, All My Sins Remembered and, of course, The Forever War series and Forever Peace series, has graciously given The Space...
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 Space.
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 umpteenth budget year, No again. China. It's an odd way to start but it might at least be...
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 recycling for crop fertilization. And for the life of me I can't find that now. Going through my...
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 dilemma, working on doing real things vs working on all of the facets of getting the funds to...
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