This new video from the Space Frontier Foundation explains in a clear and straight-forward manner the affordable, incremental, commercial approach to space development that is the alternative to the unaffordable approach that NASA is currently going with its hyper-expensive super heavy lifter:
In Bob Zimmerman‘s latest visit on the John Batchelor radio program, he spoke about the following topics:
Thurs 7/25/13 Hour 3 – John Batchelor Show
1. The effort to fix Kepler does not look good.
2. Orion parachute drop test a success.
3. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon all show better than expected profits despite sequestration.
4. Hints that Congress is finally beginning to realize that commercial space is the way to go.
Bob also recorded a segment for an upcoming program, perhaps to be broadcast this weekend, in which he discussed the following topics:
1. The pale blue dot, as seen from Saturn and Mercury.
2. More climate fraud: the routine lowering of past climate data to make today’s temperatures seem hotter.
3. Pro-global warming scientists, called to testify by Barbara Boxer, are forced to admit the temperature stopped rising 10-15 years ago.
4. The explanation for why the climate hasn’t warmed these past 10 years: the heat is hiding!
[ Update: This episode is available at Mon 7/29/13 Hr 3 Batchelor.]
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On Wednesday, David Livingston joined Batchelor for the latest episode of the weekly Hotel Mars segment. They talked with space law expert Michael Listner about the “legalities & issues regarding asteroid and resource mining in space”: John Batchelor Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 7-24-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog
The Paul Fraser Collectibles site in the UK includes space memorabilia in their on line store:
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For more space memorabilia and collectibles resources, see the HobbySpace Collecting Space section.
More space policy related items:
The Planetary Society is supporting a project using a ground based telescope to detect planets around the two stars of the Alpha Centauri system, the closest stars to our own solar system:
