In my continued theme of interesting YouTube wanderings, I’ve run across this video: The Mars Underground It describes the history of the Mars Society and the Mars Direct mission. Again, I wouldn’t recommend this unless
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I’m working on a big CAD project at the office, and I tend to zone out to music or documentaries. Below is another of the latter that I’m really enjoying at the moment. Moon Shot
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This is a really great bunch of film history of the original astronauts from Mercury through Apollo. The restoration of these candid shots is wonderful, and for those of us who like to see space
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One of the dual-purpose areas of interest for us is the blending of space development with terrestrial benefits. Not ancillary spinoffs, but really conscious efforts to make space technology directly applicable to earthly needs and
Read moreMars: The Door Opens
Well. That’s some big news. Mars has liquid water. It’s been long suspected, watching the changing striations over the years, and sensing what seems to be material of the proper density just under much of
Read moreA Bolt Out of the Blue (Origin)
I am not the only person in the space commentary community to have missed this flight test, but kudos to Blue Origin. They got half of what they wanted (capsule recovery yes, fly-back booster lost)
Read moreAres vs. Luna – Should the Siblings Fight?
I am a very long-time supporter and member of the Moon Society, from way back in the 1990’s, and feel pretty strongly about the need to establish a beachhead on the Moon. There are a
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Leaving something permanent. One of the saddest things about the Apollo missions is that they didn’t leave anything permanent that made future missions any easier. When Apollo was canceled, all that was left were museum
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Providing more experience with on-asteroid operations. If the Rosetta/Philae mission should tell us anything, it’s that there’s still a lot to learn, from an engineering standpoint, about how to operate successfully on the surface of
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Providing the beginnings of a lunar gateway. It turns out that getting to and from lunar DRO, and to the lunar surface from a lunar DRO, isn’t massively different from getting to and from Earth-moon
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