‘Women in Space’ database at Telegraph Jobs

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The Telegraph newspaper has created a special resource site called Women In Space – Telegraph Jobs –

The Women In Space database is brought to you by Telegraph Jobs. This educational and motivational resource enables you to view what the historic heroines have accomplished on their missions to space and what the current modern female marvels are accomplishing in their day to day job role. If you happen to be working in these fields of work and are not currently on the database then feel free to email the Telegraph Engineering Jobs team today to be featured (womeninspace@telegraph.co.uk).

We would love to hear from all you women out there and would like to encourage more females to make an impact around STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), to take the opportunity to study in these fascinating fields and to venture off into deep space.

The world, planets and space awaits you, and we look forward to hearing from you.

Living in Space, Simulators, Space Systems

Univ. North Dakota group begins 30 day planetary base simulation

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Pablo de Leon‘s group at the Univ. of North Dakota Department of Space Studies is carrying out another extended simulated space base project:

Updates on the sim are available at the NDX Space Suit Projects blog:

Exoplanets, SETI

Video: Do any Exoplanets have intelligent occupants? – SETIcon 2 panel

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Below is another panel discussion from the SETI Institute‘s SETIcon 2 event. This one is titled: Do Any Exoplanets Have Intelligent Occupants? As listed in the caption, the panelists include:

Jon M. Jenkins – Jon is the Analysis Lead for Kepler space observatory.
Jill Tarter – Jill directs the SETI Institute’s searches for intelligent life elsewhere, and is the holder of the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI.
Margaret Turnbull- Margaret is an American astronomer. She received her PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in 2004.
Dan Werthimer – Dan is co-founder and chief scientist of the SETI@home project and directs other UC Berkeley SETI searches at radio, infrared and visible wavelengths, including the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations (SERENDIP).
Moderator: Gerry Harp – SETI Institute

DIY space, Space Settlement

Video: Mars One discussion on Bloomberg

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In this Bloomberg video:

Bas Lansdorp, co-founder and CEO of Mars One, and Helen Greiner, CEO of CyPhy Works and co-founder of iRobot, discuss the efforts to put a human colony on Mars with Pimm Fox on “Taking Stock.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Lansdorp claims that the one-way approach lowers costs. However, Elon Musk has said he cannot provide lost cost transport to Mars unless he can reuse his vehicles. So the vehicles need to return from Mars.

Update: Some MIT students have a simulation of a Mars base and Mars One has a sim of their own: Simulation Outpost Alpha – Mars One