{"id":4060,"date":"2013-08-20T19:15:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T19:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4060"},"modified":"2013-08-21T05:00:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T05:00:39","slug":"interviews-doug-plata-and-lunar-cots-joel-achenbach-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4060","title":{"rendered":"Interviews: Doug Plata and Lunar COTS + Joel Achenbach and asteroid capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moonandback has posted two parts of an interview with Dr. Doug Plata, who is an advocate of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunarcots.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Lunar COTS<\/a> program. With Lunar COTS, NASA would encourage faster, less expensive lunar development by buying commercial hardware and services in a manner similar to the successful COTS (Commercial Orbital Transportation System) program for cargo delivery to the International Space Station:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Doug Plata answers the question about how people can get involved in the Lunar COTS petition, talks about why he\u2019s involved in this project and offers advice on what others can do&#8221; : <a href=\"http:\/\/moonandback.com\/2013\/08\/20\/doug-plata-activism-will-get-us-there-the-moonandback-interview-documentary-project\/\" target=\"_d\">Doug Plata &#8211; Activism Will Get Us There &#8211; Moonandback<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Doug Plata continues to examine details of the Lunar COTS program, discusses potential off-world health issues, the potential for genetic mutation, and the need for stepped-up research on different gravity health implications&#8221; : <a href=\"http:\/\/moonandback.com\/2013\/08\/19\/doug-plata-off-world-health-issues-the-moonandback-interview-documentary-project\/\" target=\"_d\">Doug Plata &#8211; Off-World Health Issues &#8211; Moonandback<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>In this PBS NewsHour interview, Washington Post science reporter Joel Achenbach talks about NASA&#8217;s proposed project to capture a small asteroid and about the budget and policy problems the agency is having: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/science\/july-dec13\/nasa_08-19.html\" target=\"_d\">Facing Budget Battles, NASA Still Aims High With Asteroid Capture Mission &#8211; PBS NewsHour -Aug. 19, 2013 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>He is writing a series about the agency&#8217;s problems, e.g. on Sunday he had this long front page article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sf\/national\/2013\/08\/17\/nasas-mission-improbable\/1\/\" target=\"_d\">NASA\u2019s mission improbable \u2013 The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/kennedy-space-center-in-the-post-shuttle-era\/2013\/08\/17\/13a56286-0600-11e3-88d6-d5795fab4637_gallery.html?tid=pm_national_gal\" target=\"_d\">Kennedy Space Center in the post-shuttle era \u2013 The Washington Post<\/a> \u2013 Gallery of pictures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"500\" height=\"290\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"width=500&amp;height=290&amp;video=http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/videoPlayerInfo\/2365065293&amp;player=viral&amp;end=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/dgjigvacl6ipj.cloudfront.net\/media\/swf\/PBSPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #808080; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 512px;\">Watch <a style=\"text-decoration: none !important; font-weight: normal !important; height: 13px; color: #4eb2fe !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/video\/2365065293\" target=\"_blank\">Still Aims High in Asteroid Capture Mission Despite Budget<\/a> on PBS. See more from <a style=\"text-decoration: none !important; font-weight: normal !important; height: 13px; color: #4eb2fe !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/\" target=\"_blank\">PBS NewsHour.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moonandback has posted two parts of an interview with Dr. Doug Plata, who is an advocate of a Lunar COTS program. With Lunar COTS, NASA would encourage faster, less expensive lunar development by buying commercial hardware and services in a manner similar to the successful COTS (Commercial Orbital Transportation System) program for cargo delivery to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4060\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interviews: Doug Plata and Lunar COTS + Joel Achenbach and asteroid capture<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-space-policy","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-13u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":845,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=845","url_meta":{"origin":4060,"position":0},"title":"Lunar COTS on the Space Show + Tea Party in Space + Space law roundup","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Doug Plata discussed his Lunar COTS proposal on the Space Show yesterday: Dr. Doug Plata, Sunday, 2-24-13 - Thespaceshow's Blog === A commentator has difficulty making fun of, or heads or tails of, the Tea Party In Space\u00a0 organization: 'Tea Party in Space' is boldly going out there - Baltimore\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Activism&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Activism","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15374,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15374","url_meta":{"origin":4060,"position":1},"title":"Moon settlements via NASA-Commercial partnerships","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Trump administration\u00a0recently announced\u00a0that the Moon is now the primary goal for NASA's human spaceflight program. 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