Al Globus, who has the website Orbital Space Settlement, discusses the “three paths to space settlement” during an interview at the Space Access 2013 conference in Phoenix, Arizona last April: Al Globus – Space Settlement – Moonandback.
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If having and raising healthy children in the low Mars gravity is not possible, then bases there will never become settlements: Mars One: What’s the Point? – Citizens in Space.
Bob Zimmerman reports on the latest space news during regular weekly slots (usually Tuesday and Thursdays) on the John Batchelor radio program. See the iTunes free Podcast for links to the latest shows.
Tuesday 05/21/13 Batchelor Hour 4 : Science and politics:
Thursday: Space:
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William (Bill) Borucki, Principle Investigator for the Kepler Space Telescope, talked with Batchelor and David Livingston during the latest Mars Hotel segment. They discussed the status of Kepler after the loss of its reaction wheel and about the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF): John Batchelor Show Hotel Mars, Wednesday, 5-22-13 – Thespaceshow’s Blog.
In this video, NASA astronaut Mario Runco talks about some of the subtleties involved in taking photographs of the Earth from the International Space Station:
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. 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.
The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. Both slides (pdf) and audio (mp3) are available for the talk, Environmental Control and Life Support Systems: Current Status and Future Development, Robert Bagdigian & Robyn Carrasquillo – NASA MSFC – May.22.2013.
