Activism, DIY space, Space participation

Objective Europa – A crowd researching a manned mission to Europa

Kristian von Bengtson of Copenhagen Suborbitals is also leading a separate project to develop a plan for a manned mission to the Jupiter moon Europa: The First Manned Mission to Jupiter’s Moon Will Be Crowd-Researched – Motherboard.

They are calling their approach “crowd-research”. While crowd-funding invites whoever is interested to contribute money to a project, crowd-research invites interested people to participate in the design of such a mission.

Objective Europa is

an open research phase of a manned mission to Europa – someone has to start the work on this.
There will be topics for open research, new topics to be suggested, concepts sketches to be made,
and forum discussion to be begun – everyone serious who finds this project interesting may join us.

Participation is based on volunteering dedicated work.

We are currently looking for someone to take charge of these tasks:
– Running our Twitter page (https://twitter.com/ObjectiveEuropa).
– Creating and running our Facebook page.
– Finishing our report template.
– Continuous proofreading of our site.
– Being contact person and admin for researchers and future participants.
– Being admin/mod on the upload of reports and research and for the site.
– Simply joining us if you have something else to offer the project.

If you are interested in participating in general research on the manned mission, you should wait with contacting us until the page is launched.

Contact us at : contact @ objective-europa.com

Follow updates on the project at Objective Europa (ObjectiveEuropa) on Twitter.

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General, SpaceCasts

Video: This Week @ NASA

Here’s the latest This Week @ NASA video:

Caption:

Celebration, when the Curiosity Rover safely found the surface of Mars on August 6, 2012 … and celebration this week on Capitol Hill as NASA and members of Congress mark the one year anniversary of the Martian landing and showcase the ways the rover is helping us get to know Mars. During another event to celebrate Curiosity at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, members of the Curiosity team presented White House officials with a replica of the plaque flown on the mission and signed by the President. Curiosity’s landing ignited a new generation of excitement which grew even more when the rover found evidence that Mars could’ve sustained life in the past. NASA and the rest of Earth looks forward to future finds on Mars from Curiosity and other missions. Also, Bolden Visits Wallops, Asteroid Mission Formulation Review, Following The Water, Preparing For Tomorrow, SLS Design Gets “OK”, NASA Gets New Chief Scientist, X-Ray Eclipse, Commercial Crew Industry Day, Train Like An Astronaut, Promoting Stem & Safety and more!

Activism, Mars, SpaceCasts

Mars One – Million Martian Meeting

The Mars One group is holding a special event today at George Washington University in D.C.,  called the Million Martians Meeting. It is being live-streamed at Mars One Million Martian Meeting 8/3/13 on USTREAM: Mars One

 Mars One – Aspiring Martian Group conference with guest speaker Robert Zubrin and keynote speaker Bas Lansdorp

Posts about the presentations can be found at

Update: A report on the event: Space cadets in Washington for one-way ticket to Mars – phys.org

General, Space Policy, SpaceCasts

Space on The John Batchelor Show: Bob Zimmerman + Hotel Mars

Bob Zimmerman talked about space during two episodes of the  John Batchelor radio program this week.

Wed 7/31/13 Hr 3 Batchelor :  

  • On Friday, an astronaut on ISS controlled and steered a rover on Earth.  While zipping around Earth several hundred miles above the planet’s surface, the European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano drove a 220-pound (100 kilograms) rover across a moon-mimicking landscape here at NASA’s Ames Research Center, even ordering the robot to deploy a simulated film-based radio telescope antenna.
  • A supernova has exploded in the galaxy M74, only 30 million light years away.  This is one of the closest supernovae in recent years. Though it’s still brightening and has reached 12th magnitude, it’s not expected to brighten to naked-eye visibility (about 6th magnitude). Astronomers however have spotted the progenitor star in archival Hubble images, which they have identified as a M-type red supergiant that was also particularly bright in the infrared.

Thurs 8/1/13 Hr 3 Batchelor :

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This week’s Hotel Mars segment on the John Batchelor show included Dr. Richard Obousy who talked about the  Icarus Interstellar project, faster-than-light travel, and breakthrough propulsion :  John Batchelor Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 7-31-13- Thespaceshow’s Blog

Rockets, Solar Sci-Fi, Space books

The Rocket Company: Chapters 13-16

In the continuing serialization of the updated version of the book The Rocket Company by Patrick J. G. Stiennon and David M. Hoerr, with illustrations by Doug Birkholz.  This week you can obtain the following chapters of the book:

Download these within the next week or so. Only four chapters will be available at any one time.

See also the electronic version of the updated book is available at  The Rocket Company eBook by Patrick Stiennon, David Hoerr, Peter Diamandis, Doug Birkhol: Kindle Store/Amazon.com.

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