Here’s the latest This Week @ NASA program:
Analysis of the first ever sample of rock powder collected by the Mars Curiosity rover has proven that the Red Planet location it’s exploring once had everything needed to support microbial life including a lakebed filled with not salty or acidic but fresh water. Also, innovative space technology; students help space exploration; women aspiring, inspiring; IceBridge preps; SLS @ TennTech; career day; and more!
The Space Show this week:
1. Monday, March 18, 2013, 2-3:30 PM PST (5-6:30 PM EST, 4-5:30 PM CST): We welcome DR. CLAUDE PIANTADOSI, professor & director of the F.G. Hall environmental Laboratory at Duke University. We will be discussing Dr. Piantadosi’s new book, Mankind Beyond Earth: The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration.
2. Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2013, 7-8:30 PM PST (10-11:30 PM EST, 9-10:30 PM CST): We welcome back JOHN STRICKLAND for the second half of his space discussion from his Jan. 22, 2013 Space Show appearance.
3. Friday, March 22, 2013, 9:30-11 AM PST (11:30- 1 PM CST, 12:30PM-2:00 PM EST): No Space Show program today as I am in Billings, MT to moderate an astronaut panel for Rocky Mtn College. The panel particpants include Walter Cunningham, Gerald Carr, Harrison (Jack) Schmitt, and Loren Acton. The panel discussion will be 10AM-12PM PDT (11AM-1 PM MDT, 12-2PM CDT & 1-3PM EDT). You can see the panel discussion at http://live.rocky.edu. The live stream audience will not be able to ask questions. It is possible that Rocky Mtn. College will allow The Space Show to archive this program on our Vimeo channel. Details to follow.
4. Sunday, March 3, 2013, 12-1:30 PM PST (3-4:30 PM EST, 2-3:30 PM CST). We welcome back Dr. Alan Stern who will be discussing his new Golden Spike venture. Dr. Stern will be with us for only the first hour. The last part of our program will be open lines for a discussion about Golden Spike & other matters. For those of you wanting to talk to Dr. Stern, you must call early as he can only be with us for the first hour.
See also:
/– The Space Show on Vimeo – webinar videos
/– The Space Show’s Blog – summaries of interviews.
/– The Space Show Classroom Blog – tutorial programs
The Space Show is a project of the One Giant Leap Foundation.
David Luther outlines the Horizontal In Line Launch Staging (H.I.L.L.S.) concept and previews the crowd-sourcing and small venture approach that can test it: First Steps…Science Fiction to Science Fact – Exodus Aerospace
Among your ranks are those who can contribute on many levels. Any real space venture requires an army of supporters of every skill set. We welcome contributions of time as well as funding. Aerospace educators can bring students on board. Corporate sponsorship and discounts are valuable and we can deliver inside information on our projects to our supporters. We will deliver recognition and rewards to all contributors…Join a real Star Fleet crew!
John Kelly points to a survey that finds most people put space near the bottom in a list of spending priorities for the government : Taxpayers sour on space during the budget crisis – Florida Today.
Saying that taxpayers have soured on space implies that they were once sweet on space. Polls going back to the early 1960s, however, have always given the same basic results – the public likes space in a general interest way but they don’t see it as a big priority for spending their tax dollars. It’s this mile wide – inch deep attitude of the public that has always bedeviled space advocates who try to push for more spending on NASA. Politicians just don’t see any votes being gained for supporting increased spending on space.
Until the public sees (1) the cost of space activities drop dramatically and (2) lots of people like themselves going to space and involved with space activities, this attitude isn’t going to change.
Lunarcy! is a
2012 Canadian documentary film directed by Simon Ennis, and produced by Jonas Bell Pasht, Ron Mann, Jonah Bekhor. The film premiered at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival on September 8, 2012 and is headed for worldwide circulation through German Screen. The film draws from a cast of real people who each have a unique connection to the moon, to include an astronaut who once walked on the moon and a person who claims personal ownership of the moon.
It is playing currently at the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital.
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Here’s the trailer:
http://youtu.be/oKHGme0j3k0
Update: Jeff Foust went to see the film and posted this comments on it at jeff_foust on Twitter: