I hope you have had a chance to read them.
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http://www.thespacereview.com/
This week in The Space Review…
Which way is up? http://www.thespacereview.com/
The fact that NASA’s exploration program has run into budget and other difficulties is hardly surprising; the question now is how the White House and Congress will respond to the conclusions of the Augustine committee report. Dwayne Day summarizes a recent forum that brought together experts from government, industry, and elsewhere to tackle this issue.
Monday, October 5, 2009
A committee member speaks http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1483/1
With the Augustine committee’s work nearly done, some of its members are starting to speak individually about their work. Jeff Foust reports on a speech last week by a committee member who provided his own insights into the work on crafting a new direction for NASA’s human spaceflight plans. Monday, October 5, 2009
The other 40th anniversary http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1482/1
This summer marked the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, but this month marks a very different, yet important, 40th anniversary. Bob Werb recalls the work of Gerard K. O’Neill and how it set into motion a completely new way to look at spaceflight. Monday, October 5, 2009
snip [First three articles above. - LRK -]
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If I reach into the last one, The other 40th anniversary, Bob Werb says:
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Less than three months after billions of people were transfixed by “one small step” a Princeton physics professor named Gerard K. O’Neill walked into a classroom with less than a dozen undergraduates and asked a seemingly simple question: “Is the surface of a planet really the right place for an expanding technological civilization?”
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And if I lift a bit from Jeff Foust's "A Committee Member Speaks".
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“The trap with all of these justifications is that it’s not enough to say that if we spend money on space then we get these benefits,” he said. “If you’re justifying spending money on space because of this benefit or that benefit, you have to look not at the alternative of not doing it, you have to look at the opportunity cost: what else could you have spent that money on, and could you have gotten benefits out of that, too.”
All these things are benefits that you get as part of having a human spaceflight program, but what, then, is the key justification for it? “I knew that the reason why we go to space is because we’re going to live there someday,” he said. “We are opening a new frontier for humanity, we are creating new places and making them accessible for us. This is what the future is about.”
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Then from the first article, Which way is up?, by Dwayne Day, this bit.
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Pace finished with what he considers to be the biggest policy question: why do we have a human space program? What are we doing this for? He said that one of the questions he poses to his students is: is there anything economically advantageous for humans to do in space? If not, is there a future for humans beyond the Earth at all?
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Sooooooh, Why New Space - Why?
Science is nice, toys are nice, thrills are nice, but nice doesn't help ensure that the human race will survive.
Donald F. Robertson wrote an editorial.
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http://www.spacenews.com/commentaries/lunar-base-critical-future-space commerce.html
09/21/09 10:43 AM ET
Lunar Base Critical to Future of Space Commerce
By Donald F. Robertson
The Human Space Flight Plans Committee, led by former Lockheed Martin chief executive Norman Augustine, argued in their Summary Report that “Planning for a human spaceflight program should begin with a choice of goals. Destinations should derive from goals.” Chartered by the White House to review U.S. human space policy, they added, “the ultimate goal of human exploration is to chart a path for human exploration into the Solar System.”
If so, the highest priority initial goal must remain a permanent lunar outpost. Nothing is more important to humanity’s future in space, especially a commercial future.
snip
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Some more thoughts.
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http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/09/us_cannot_responsibly_avoid_a.html
Editorial, Real-Time News »
U.S. cannot responsibly avoid a significant investment in its space program -- an editorial
By The Plain Dealer Editorial Board September 24, 2009, 4:13AM
Since the moment Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin lifted off to come home from the moon in 1969, NASA has faced a problem that no engineer, no astronaut, no administrator has been able to solve: how to sell politicians of constrained vision on the necessity of exploring a limitless universe.
Human space exploration is an expensive "product," and over the many years since the end of the Apollo project, NASA's sales force has taken the path of least resistance: a space station here, an orbiting telescope there, a couple of rovers tooling around Mars. And really, NASA had no choice.
The pull just hasn't been there. No charismatic president has drawn the country into his vision of pioneering a new frontier, the way John F. Kennedy did with his challenge to land a man on the moon and return him safely home -- issued at a time when U.S. rockets had an unsettling tendency of blowing up on the launchpad.
The push hasn't been there, either. The United States won the sprint to the moon against the Soviet Union. Then the West won the Cold War. When the defense-related urgency of holding the "high ground" dissipated, NASA's budget followed suit.
Some of the unmanned projects of recent decades have done the expected and more -- the Mars rovers, still active years past their predicted service lives, and the Hubble telescope come to mind.
Manned projects, post-Apollo, have proven far less inspiring, outside of scientific and technical circles.
snip
The question is whether the United States will have a space program worthy of the name. It is time to end the long, post-Apollo retreat.
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Let me ask again, "Why New Space - Why?"
Maybe we need to be going to space to save humankind before the window of opportunity closes.
- LRK -
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http://groups.google.com/group/space-renaissance-initiative?hl=en
Space Renaissance is a new, global philosophy, having its basic ground on Earth, and its natural development in the extraterrestrial space. Our founding concepts are New Humanism and Astro Humanism. We look at the past Renaissance (1500) as an inspiration for patronage and capability to aim high, and to make great projects by means of good
will and mutual cooperation.
Among our scopes:
- to give birth to a Foundation
- to build a great school for graduates and post-graduate doctorates and masters
- to build the philosophy and the culture of the Space Age, to help
the New Renaissance of Humanity in Space
The Space Renaissance Initiative published a call for a world wide
forum -- the Space Renaissance Forum -- to be held one week before the
next G20!
READ AND SIGN THE CALL HERE: http://www.tdf.it/SRI/sri-call.htm
See also http://www.spacerenaissance.org/
http://www.tdf.it/
http://www.spacefuture.com/
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Sooooh, One more time, "Why New Space"?
Answer is?
- LRK -
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1483/1
[All these things are benefits that you get as part of having a human spaceflight program, but what, then, is the key justification for it? “I knew that the reason why we go to space is because we’re going to live there someday,” he said. “We are opening a new frontier for humanity, we are creating new places and making them accessible for us. This is what the future is about.”]
How about we get our act together and set the the record straight - we want to make it possible for us to LIVE in space and think we should be developing a Lunar Base to help us make it happen. It just seems like that is something that is worth finding money for.
Monday, October 5, 2009
A committee member speaks http://www.thespacereview.com/
With the Augustine committee’s work nearly done, some of its members are starting to speak individually about their work. Jeff Foust reports on a speech last week by a committee member who provided his own insights into the work on crafting a new direction for NASA’s human spaceflight plans. Monday, October 5, 2009
The other 40th anniversary http://www.thespacereview.com/
This summer marked the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, but this month marks a very different, yet important, 40th anniversary. Bob Werb recalls the work of Gerard K. O’Neill and how it set into motion a completely new way to look at spaceflight. Monday, October 5, 2009
snip [First three articles above. - LRK -]
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If I reach into the last one, The other 40th anniversary, Bob Werb says:
- LRK -
-------------
Less than three months after billions of people were transfixed by “one small step” a Princeton physics professor named Gerard K. O’Neill walked into a classroom with less than a dozen undergraduates and asked a seemingly simple question: “Is the surface of a planet really the right place for an expanding technological civilization?”
-------------
And if I lift a bit from Jeff Foust's "A Committee Member Speaks".
- LRK -
-------------
“The trap with all of these justifications is that it’s not enough to say that if we spend money on space then we get these benefits,” he said. “If you’re justifying spending money on space because of this benefit or that benefit, you have to look not at the alternative of not doing it, you have to look at the opportunity cost: what else could you have spent that money on, and could you have gotten benefits out of that, too.”
All these things are benefits that you get as part of having a human spaceflight program, but what, then, is the key justification for it? “I knew that the reason why we go to space is because we’re going to live there someday,” he said. “We are opening a new frontier for humanity, we are creating new places and making them accessible for us. This is what the future is about.”
-------------
Then from the first article, Which way is up?, by Dwayne Day, this bit.
- LRK -
-------------
Pace finished with what he considers to be the biggest policy question: why do we have a human space program? What are we doing this for? He said that one of the questions he poses to his students is: is there anything economically advantageous for humans to do in space? If not, is there a future for humans beyond the Earth at all?
-------------
Sooooooh, Why New Space - Why?
Science is nice, toys are nice, thrills are nice, but nice doesn't help ensure that the human race will survive.
Donald F. Robertson wrote an editorial.
- LRK -
-------------
http://www.spacenews.com/
09/21/09 10:43 AM ET
Lunar Base Critical to Future of Space Commerce
By Donald F. Robertson
The Human Space Flight Plans Committee, led by former Lockheed Martin chief executive Norman Augustine, argued in their Summary Report that “Planning for a human spaceflight program should begin with a choice of goals. Destinations should derive from goals.” Chartered by the White House to review U.S. human space policy, they added, “the ultimate goal of human exploration is to chart a path for human exploration into the Solar System.”
If so, the highest priority initial goal must remain a permanent lunar outpost. Nothing is more important to humanity’s future in space, especially a commercial future.
snip
-------------
Some more thoughts.
- LRK -
-------------
http://www.cleveland.com/
Editorial, Real-Time News »
U.S. cannot responsibly avoid a significant investment in its space program -- an editorial
By The Plain Dealer Editorial Board September 24, 2009, 4:13AM
Since the moment Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin lifted off to come home from the moon in 1969, NASA has faced a problem that no engineer, no astronaut, no administrator has been able to solve: how to sell politicians of constrained vision on the necessity of exploring a limitless universe.
Human space exploration is an expensive "product," and over the many years since the end of the Apollo project, NASA's sales force has taken the path of least resistance: a space station here, an orbiting telescope there, a couple of rovers tooling around Mars. And really, NASA had no choice.
The pull just hasn't been there. No charismatic president has drawn the country into his vision of pioneering a new frontier, the way John F. Kennedy did with his challenge to land a man on the moon and return him safely home -- issued at a time when U.S. rockets had an unsettling tendency of blowing up on the launchpad.
The push hasn't been there, either. The United States won the sprint to the moon against the Soviet Union. Then the West won the Cold War. When the defense-related urgency of holding the "high ground" dissipated, NASA's budget followed suit.
Some of the unmanned projects of recent decades have done the expected and more -- the Mars rovers, still active years past their predicted service lives, and the Hubble telescope come to mind.
Manned projects, post-Apollo, have proven far less inspiring, outside of scientific and technical circles.
snip
The question is whether the United States will have a space program worthy of the name. It is time to end the long, post-Apollo retreat.
-------------
Let me ask again, "Why New Space - Why?"
Maybe we need to be going to space to save humankind before the window of opportunity closes.
- LRK -
-------------
http://groups.google.com/
Space Renaissance is a new, global philosophy, having its basic ground on Earth, and its natural development in the extraterrestrial space. Our founding concepts are New Humanism and Astro Humanism. We look at the past Renaissance (1500) as an inspiration for patronage and capability to aim high, and to make great projects by means of good
will and mutual cooperation.
Among our scopes:
- to give birth to a Foundation
- to build a great school for graduates and post-graduate doctorates and masters
- to build the philosophy and the culture of the Space Age, to help
the New Renaissance of Humanity in Space
The Space Renaissance Initiative published a call for a world wide
forum -- the Space Renaissance Forum -- to be held one week before the
next G20!
READ AND SIGN THE CALL HERE: http://www.tdf.it/SRI/sri-
See also http://www.spacerenaissance.
http://www.tdf.it/
http://www.spacefuture.com/
-------------
Sooooh, One more time, "Why New Space"?
Answer is?
- LRK -
http://www.thespacereview.com/
[All these things are benefits that you get as part of having a human spaceflight program, but what, then, is the key justification for it? “I knew that the reason why we go to space is because we’re going to live there someday,” he said. “We are opening a new frontier for humanity, we are creating new places and making them accessible for us. This is what the future is about.”]
How about we get our act together and set the the record straight - we want to make it possible for us to LIVE in space and think we should be developing a Lunar Base to help us make it happen. It just seems like that is something that is worth finding money for.
All our eggs in one basket just seems to be short sighted, at least that is what I think.
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http://www.amazon.com/Out-Cradle-Exploring-Frontiers-Beyond/dp/0894807706/
Out of the Cradle: Exploring the Frontiers Beyond Earth (Paperback)
by William K. Hartmann (Author), Ron Miller (Author), Pamela Lee (Illustrator)
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Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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http://www.amazon.com/Out-
Out of the Cradle: Exploring the Frontiers Beyond Earth (Paperback)
by William K. Hartmann (Author), Ron Miller (Author), Pamela Lee (Illustrator)
snip
--------------------------------------
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/
BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.
RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.
Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lrkellogg
==========================================
WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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