LVM Studios is offering an interesting collection of space model kits, including several Soviet/Russian related items –
Soon to be available is the R7 Launch pad “Soyuz Baikonur” 1/144
LC14 LUT for Revell’s “Everything is GO”:
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JP Aerospace on American Voices satellite radio program
John Powell of JP Aerospace will talk this weekend on the American Voices Sirius XM satellite radio program hosted by former Senator Bill Bradley: JP Interview this Saturday with Senator Bill Bradley – JP Aerospace Blog
This Saturday and Sunday JP will be on the radio with Senator Bill Bradley.
The Senator’s radio show “American Voices” is on Sirius Satellite network. The Senator and JP will talk about PongSat, space education and Airship to Orbit. Listen in!
American Voices airs on Sirius XM Satellite Radio Channel 124
Saturdays: 7AM, 1PM, and 7PM; Sundays: 4AM, 10AM, 4PM, and 11PM.
(All times are EST)American Voices facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/Americanvoiceswithsenatorbillbradley?fref=ts
NSS to present a roadmap to space settlement
The NSS will rollout its Roadmap to Space Settlement this month in association with the International Space Development Conference (ISDC 2013) in San Diego, California, May 23-27:
National Space Society Presents
Milestones to Space Settlement: An NSS Roadmap
When:
May 24, 2013, 10:00 am (Programming follows 11:00 am to 4:50 pm)
Where:
International Space Development Conference
San Diego, California, at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla at Aventine
What:
A Press Conference featuring the National Space Society’s (NSS) Roadmap to Space Settlement will be presented to the world. A panel of space experts and NSS members will discuss the path towards humankind’s future in space. The press conference will also highlight previews of some of the afternoon’s talks, a visually stunning Luncheon Presentation, and a programming track that covers some of the exciting topics in (and evolved from) the Roadmap. Previously, only NSS members and Ad Astra magazine subscribers have been told about the Roadmap. Now, the world will know!
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A space logistics base with a docking truss is assembled in Low Mars Orbit. Art: Anna Nesterova
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With the impending breakthroughs in launch costs, attention is once more shifting to actual operations in space. We can now begin to dream big dreams again. The Roadmap Track will cover the future diverse paths to space development and the common and practical foundations for our impending economic breakout into space. The NSS Roadmap, approved by the NSS Board of Directors, attempts to lay out many of the space goals and identify Milestones and Barriers to those goals.
Track presentations will cover some legal issues surrounding space development, how space development can improve life on Earth, how you actually can build a two kilometer space colony with essentially current level technology, progress in the development of reusable launch systems, why a cis-lunar space transportation and logistics system is vital to reaching all of our space goals and destinations, how to achieve the ability to build space colonies, and how space settlement design competitions can augment and assist planning for future space colonies.
Roadmap text and images can be found here.
In addition to the presentations directly in the Roadmap track itself, many of the other tracks at the ISDC cover material directly related to the Roadmap, such as the Lunar, Mars and the Space Based Solar Power Tracks.
Featured Speakers:
- Derek Weber: Director: SpacePort Associates
- Howard Bloom: Author & Member: NSS Board of Directors
- Stan Rosen: Vice Chairman, NSS Board of Directors
- Bruce Pittman: NSS Senior Vice President/Senior Operating Officer
- Anita Gale: Member: NSS Board of Directors
- Mark Hopkins: Chairman NSS Executive Committee
- Jeff Liss: Member: NSS Board of Directors
- John Strickland: Member: NSS Board of Directors, Track Chair
- Al Globus: Member: NSS Board of Directors
Roadmap Track Sessions schedule:
- 10:00 am – Roadmap Rollout – MEDIA PRESS CONFERENCE with panel
- 11:00 am – Jeff Liss – Legal Issues of and Barriers to Roadmap Milestones
- 11:20 am – Stan Rosen – Applications of Space Technology on and for Earth
- 12:00 am – Howard Bloom – Space Visual Manifesto (LUNCH talk) invited speaker
- 2:00 pm – John Strickland – How Does a Jig Factory Build a Space Colony?
- 3:00 pm – Bruce Pittman – Economic & Technical Realities of Reusable Launch Systems
- 3:15 pm – Al Globus – Paths to Space Settlement
- 4:00 pm – Derek Webber – An Architecture for Survival
- 4:25 pm – Anita Gale – Design Competition Scenarios: Ambitious Future Space Roadmap
Kickstarting Intergalactic Expedition by ImaginEpic
I recently got a heads up about a Kickstarter campaign to support development of the “Futuristic Space-Based Action Adventure Game” Intergalactic Expedition by ImaginEpic.
The main objective of the game is to travel to Titan, one of Saturn’s moons. The goal is to set up colonization to explore further into space. By utilizing renewable energy sources such as wind or hydroelectric power and utilizing water from the moon Rhea, this colony would give the resources required to travel and explore the outer most planets of our solar system. We wanted to use Titan because of its similarity to Earth in terms of landscape and composition (besides it being nitrogen-based opposed to carbon based)
See the following video for an overview and their Kickstarter page for details:
The story of the Moon’s water is still a mystery
The water on the earth and Moon tells a story about their creation and development that still hasn’t been read all the way to the end: Earth-Moon: A Watery “Double-Planet” – The Once and Future Moon.