Improve Ion Engines and prove VASIMR Technology

by Bernard Isker

November 26, 2012 | 1 comments

The key to Planetary Exploration in the 21st century is to stop relying on chemical rockets to get us there. We need a radical new technology that cuts the time it takes to get to the target and increases the payload. I don't see a lot of money going to this effort. We also need to start up the RTG build effort if we want to explore beyond Mars.

Moon, Mars, and Beyond was not so bad

by Steven D. Stein

November 26, 2012 | 0 comments

I think the Moon and it's environ's should be the near term focus. While eventually we want to go to Mars with people (and perhaps asteroid missions in deep space before hand), I believe the lessons to be learned to do those other things successfully will occur best at the Moon. To do otherwise risks the failed path of "Flags and Footprints". We need to build up a sustainable infrastructure and we do that by going at the Moon.

Martian Base

by Peter Ehrman, Charter Member

November 26, 2012 | 0 comments

I would like to see us have a long lasting Martian Base. We need to venture out into space, and settle there before our planets resources are exhausted.

Larry Roark

by Larry Roark

November 26, 2012 | 0 comments

I am active with Seti Live for the last 6 months (3275 classifications) to date. I would wish we had more exposure in the Planetary Society blog on this program. The citizen Scientist volunteer are energetic and enthusiatic. ET is out there..lets more more folks involved in this very important program.

Back to the Moon, and beyond

by David G.

November 26, 2012 | 0 comments

As a charter member of The Planetary Society, I have enjoyed the progress and programs suggested by the society. I would like to see, in my lifetime, a manned mission to Mars. I believe there are several "surprises" awaiting us there. I would also like to see a perminant base established on our moon. This is a very exciting time to be living!

Infinite Vision

by Barry Lesar

November 26, 2012 | 0 comments

I wuld hope that as a species we continue our exploration of the solar system and beyond with the hopes of eventually having a perannet presence in orbit and on other planets. I also fullly expect that one day soon there will be evidence of life on otherr worlds.

Peole in Space

by G Aaron Paxson

November 26, 2012 | 0 comments

Humans on Mars

Permanent Station on the moon

by William Brewer

November 26, 2012 | 0 comments

I feel that a permanently manned station on the moon is a first step to a manned Mission to Mars. I would like to see this done as soon as possible.

Preserve our species!

by Jack Bennett

November 26, 2012 | 0 comments

Ultimately have colonies of humans on hundreds of planets, and habitats, throughout our galaxy. Perhaps other galaxies if faster than light travel ever becomes feasible. Currently continue to learn how to get space exploration and settlement less energy expensive, and do so before our already overpopulated home becomes too overloaded and polluted for human existence;

exploration

by alvin w burt

November 26, 2012 | 0 comments

I would like to see a mars base and have something like the Hubble orbiting the outer planets to see farther into the void.

My Spark

by William Lee Kohler

December 2, 2012 | 0 comments

I saw the Star Wars movies as a young adult. Then there was a take off novel from the movies by Alan Dean Foster. Then the summer of 1983 there was a popular science magazine(I think)with pictures of several prospective human deep space interstellar ships from the British Interplanetary Society. I was blown away! I was hooked and later that year when I got an invite from the Planetary Society I joined. Later I also joined the National Space Society and the Mars Society.

My Space Connection

by Bill Russell

December 2, 2012 | 0 comments

In the early 1960's, I was an engineering manager in a division of North American Aviation. When I heard that our corporation had won the competition for design and fabrication of the Apollo spacecraft, I transferred to work on the project. During most of the 1960's I supervised various Engineering groups. For example I was the leader of the Electromagnetic Compatibility unit. We were responsible for spacecraft wiring specifications,and for power filtering and related activities aimed at mitigating the effects of conducted and radiated interference. I was reesponsible for the integrated spacecraft schematics at one time. It is sufficient to ... more »

MY SON DR MORRIS JONES

by Kenneth C Jones LLM, FCA, FCPA etc

November 29, 2012 | 0 comments

I came interested in Space when I published the book "WHEN MEN WALKED ON THE MOON" written by my son, well known Space Analysist, Dr Morris Jones who is written about and appears regularly on T.V.

My passion for space, from TV

by Hugh Caley

November 28, 2012 | 0 comments

I think my passion for space was literally prompted by Star Trek, the original series, 3 seasons on NBC in the mid-60s. It was colorful, and interesting, and although the writers weren't generally scientists, they were science readers. From them I heard terms like space warp, anti-matter, etc., and from then on I was hooked on space science.

It also showed an Earth without war, without racism, without poverty or disease. Heady stuff.

I think a lot of people were inspired by that show ;)

my passion for space

by clayton vedder

December 7, 2012 | 0 comments

i was always awed by the night sky even living in upstate n.y.,but then i went to colorado in the 1970s and camped at 12000 ft. WOW what a moment unbeleavable. total blanket of stars like someone else said could read a book.and then i watched Cosmos withj Carl Sagan and ive been hooked ever since

My passion for Space

by Denise Beverly

December 18, 2012 | 0 comments

Science Fiction novels and visits to the Hayden Planetarium. Every visit my parents had to pry me out of my seat. I wanted to go out there & see for myself. I followed every launch that was televised by NASA. I wanted go go. Well, I'm 60 yrs old now & I still want to go but doubt that I will. I still read SciFi books & I still dream that maybe my grand nieces or their children will get to go for me.

My Passion for Astronomy

by George Faillace

December 3, 2012 | 0 comments

It was a few days before my eleventh birthday over 55 years ago and my father asked me what I would like to have for my birthday. I told him "I would like a book on Astronomy". My father was a businessman and my mother a housewife and neither had much knowledge of science much less of Astronomy nor space of course. But somehow I was very keen and when I received the book which is still in my bookshelf (and of course totally obsolete) I was thrilled. To this day I do not know why I was so keen ... more »

My Mother

by Jane S Southgate

December 10, 2012 | 0 comments

My mother was a World War II bride from France. She met my father, a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne, shortly after the liberation of Paris. My father was from, White Castle, a small Louisiana town. He grew up speaking Cajun French, which, when he met my mother, allowed them to communicate. My mother could not speak English. Fast forward to several years and 4 children later, my mother went to Tulane University in New Orleans where she earned a masters degree in education. My mother did her student teaching when I was 7 years old. One day she demonstrated ... more »

My Love of Space

by Obie Hunt

November 28, 2012 | 0 comments

Ever since I was a child,I enjoyed reading about the solar system and other planets. We know a lot more nowadays than we did back then. I was only nine or ten when the Russians sent their first man into space. Now with so much being discovered, my enthusiasm has also increased many times over. I believe space really is the new frontier, not only in the distance involved but it really does provide clues of our origin, even about the Earth itself. The resources found in space have already proven useful to benefit us and as long as we ... more »

My little bits for Apollo

by Paul Gregg

December 3, 2012 | 0 comments

As a fresh University of Michigan graduate with a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, I was enthralled with the idea of engineering research and development. In my first job with Allis-Chalmers in 1961, I worked on tasks related to the development of hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells for the Apollo program. We made great progress, and had a successful product, but another company got the final contract. [Politics perhaps?] Later in 1965-1966, I worked on two other minor projects for Apollo at the Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute [IITRI]. One was a technical success [a 3-D lunar mission animated display ... more »