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:
Moonandback interviews Robert Smith about his connection to the Space Studies Institute:
Robert Smith tells a story of wishing to donate his collection of space-related material to a place where researchers could access it, his search for such a place, and his eventual discovery of a stunning archival resource for scientists and engineers in an institute born of Gerard O’Neill’s vision.
– Robert Smith – The Moonandback Interview Documentary Project.
GOOD Magazine, a quarterly print publication “for people who want to live well while doing good”, has an article about space in the latest issue:
Space As The Next Frontier?
As mankind continues to ravage the planet, we find ourselves increasingly casting our gaze upwards in search of a solution, and, if need be, an escape. Could space be the answer we’re looking for? Take a look at some of this summer’s blockbusters—Elysium, After Earth, Oblivion. Outer space and what that vast expanse may or may not contain, has become a recurring theme not only in pop culture, but among artists, social innovators, entrepreneurs, and futurists as well. Journalist Maxwell Williams explores our fascination with space and contemplates it as the next frontier, with artists Tom Sachs, Michael Salvatore Tierney, and Trevor Paglen, tech activist Kosta Grammatis, Virgin Galactic’s Loretta Hidalgo, space commerce figure Peter Diamandis, host of National Geographic’s pop-science smash Brain GamesJason Silva, Buckminster Fuller Institute president David McConville, and more joining the conversation.
The issue is available on newsstands and via subscription.
Space.com reports on lunar colony designs:
Source SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration
Moonandback has posted lots of videos from the recent National Space Society ISDC 2013 event in San Diego, including these three:
Bas Lansdorp of Mars One:
Asteroids session, Pt. 1:
Asteroid session, Pt.2:
