Stephen Smith gives his view of the hearing: Twitter / SpaceKSCBlog:“This morning’s Senate budget hearing lasted about 40 minutes. Only 3 showed up; they all rep space centers and tried to protect their pork.”
Casey Dreier discusses the latest 2014 Budget at NASA and what it does to Planetary Science (and what the Society is doing about it), plus other policy issues.
Planetary Radio host Mat Kaplan joins us to discuss the Society’s Planetary Defense Conference in Flagstaff, AZ, which wrapped up last week.
And our Senior Editor, Emily Lakdawalla, comes in at the end to talk about her recent trip to New York City for the press conference announcement of Mars One, the group that wants to land humans on Mars (and never have them return).
May 21 – 22, UC San Diego, Qualcomm Institute, Atkinson Hall Auditorium
Starship Century is a symposium coordinated by the new Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination in collaboration with Gregory and James Benford, presenting ideas from their anthology of science and science fiction.
Scientists address the challenges and opportunities for our long‐term future in space, with possibilities envisioned by: Freeman Dyson, Paul Davies, Peter Schwartz, John Cramer and Robert Zubrin.
Science fiction authors Neal Stephenson, Allen Steele, Joe Haldeman, Gregory Benford, Geoffrey Landis and David Brin discuss the implications that these trajectories of exploration might have upon our development as individuals and as a civilization.
Paul Spudis explains that the Apollo lunar samples, seismic station measurements, and other data have not solved some fundamental issues regarding the Moon’s crust, mantle, and impact craters: Thin Crust Moon – The Once and Future Moon.
