What do you want to see next in space exploration?
by Bruce Preston
November 26, 2012 | 0 comments
As things stand, all too soon there will be no one left alive who has ventured past the outer atmosphere of Earth. 1969 on the Moon should have been a defining moment, not the start of a brief season to titillate a single generation. Many of us who remember those times are tremendously disappointed with where we are at this point, when we look back to that fantastic feat achieved with primitive computers but boundless human spirit.
My point? When a human child is born on the moon, that will be the game-changer that will invest today’s young in a space ... more »
by Evan Dembskey
November 26, 2012 | 0 comments
It is my belief that space exploration should not be a pastiche of missions, undertaken as individual missions are conceived and (under)funded. Rather, a long term plan of systematic exploration and colonization should be undertaken. By long term I mean in the region of five hundred years (or a thousand). A systematic plan that transcends temporary political concerns will enable us to put systems into place and build the tools that will (over time) help us reap the benefits of economies of scale. Space exploration and colonization is the most important and sane endeavour we can undertake. Unfortunately, it is ... more »
by Gill Wright
November 26, 2012 | 0 comments
My God Daughter just started college in September with a strong interest in Exobiology, Physics, Dark Energy/Dark Matter and Astronomy. Over the years I have watched her growing awareness of the limits of our knowledge, from life within our 'Gravity Well' of our collective perspectives. We have talked at length about the human potential of Aerospace and the eventual discovery of faster than light travel, and the steps that Humanity will take to accomplish "WARP Drive", at some point in the future to be explored.
Before those discoveries are accomplished, we as a species, will have to live in space, outside ... more »
by Felix Diaz
November 26, 2012 | 0 comments
I remember the Apollo 11. I saw the first step on the Moon on TV. I ask now: when will we see another scene like this? When there were another men on the Moon? When we would see a foot step on Mars? I am just 57, but I hope to see some like this. Soon, plese! ... more »
by Mickey Thompson
November 26, 2012 | 0 comments
As the International Space Station completes its initial mission; refurbish it; strap on ion propulsion units and/or sails and move it into low lunar orbit to serve as an emergency rescue system, refueling station, and backup life support to aid in the evolution of space engineering and exploration. There it will support a permanent moon based University & Engineering Lab in which mining, materiels, and construction facilities are developed; fuels are produced and parked at the ISS; and space agriculture is evolved. Moon U. will develop technologies for constructing permanent bases on Mars and other locations of interest. This string ... more »
by Mickey Thompson
November 26, 2012 | 0 comments
As the International Space Station completes its initial mission; refurbish it; strap on ion propulsion units and/or sails and move it into low lunar orbit to serve as an emergency rescue system, refueling station, and backup life support to aid in the evolution of space engineering and exploration. There it will support a permanent moon based University & Engineering Lab in which mining and construction facilities are developed; fuels are produced and parked at the ISS; and space agriculture is evolved. Moon U. will develop technologies for constructing permanent bases on Mars and other locations of interest. This string of ... more »
by Charles Stevens
November 26, 2012 | 0 comments
I want to build a base on the Moon. Human can use this base to travel in geological research trucks exploring the resources of the Moon. ... more »
by Tim Kuzniar
November 26, 2012 | 0 comments
I want to see us gain a positive command of the inner planetary system -- deep level explorations of everything from Mercury out to the Asteroid Belt. In tandem there should be strong movement beyond that into the sphere of the outer planets to visit and catalog bodies and locations heretofor untouched or only imaged in short duration flybys. So, by the decade of the 2040's (which I probably won't see personally) I would like us to have a solid understanding of all the different types of bodies found in the Solar System. Because once we have "scoped out" the ... more »
by r wheatley sr phd
November 26, 2012 | 0 comments
Continue SETI, & develop ways for human interstellar travel to discover & explore other solar systems with habitable world(s)....
Col, USAF(ret) Neuropsychologist ... more »
by Denis R. Foulem
November 21, 2012 | 0 comments
Currently, so many different aspects of our Solar System are being scrutinized by science spacecraft that it's hard to keep up with the pace of discoveries, which is a really good thing! Sadly, what I wish the next exploration frontier to be is out of reach budget-wise at the moment: the Ice Giants. A Uranus or Neptune orbiter mission seems like the next logical step in the exploration of the Solar System. Onwards!! ... more »
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What sparked your passion for space?
by Darlene Shamsid-Deen
December 18, 2012 | 0 comments
I am absolutely thrilled and excited by the knowledge and discoveries of space science and the possibilities of space exploration, but that passion built over time. First, I think, was the original Star Trek series. I liked to read science fiction casually and for fun as a teenager, and school trips to the Hayden Planetarium were always something I enjoyed, but that series made me see and think about space differently.....it simply captivated my imagination, and I instantly became a Trekkie. Then, the moon landing .... which occurred simultaneously with the tumult of the Civil Rights movement in the 60's ... more »
by Neil Haggath B.Sc. FRAS
December 10, 2012 | 0 comments
What sparked my passion for space? That's a no-brainer; I grew up with the Space Age, and especially Apollo! I was born a few months after Gagarin's flight; I was just short of 8 years old at the time of Apollo 11, and already hooked on the space programme. The earliest mission which I remember knowing about as it happened was Apollo 8, when I was 7 - but before Apollo ended, I was reading books about the history of spaceflight, from Sputnik 1 onwards, and could name the crew of every manned mission, both American and Russian. The time ... more »
by Brandon
November 29, 2012 | 0 comments
I don't really know what sparked my passion for space. Maybe it was watching movies like Star Wars or Space Camp in my youth. Maybe it was when I visited Kennedy Space Center, also as a child. One day though, as an adult, I thought to myself that I couldn't imagine going on through life without looking at the planets through a telescope. So I did my research, and purchased a nice 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain portable telescope. The first planet I viewed through it was Saturn and it was one of the most magnificent things I had ever seen in my ... more »
by Hans Cummings
November 28, 2012 | 0 comments
Hollywood has made many missteps over the years, and some say they are now (and have been for some time) bereft of creativity, but I do credit the vision of several people in Hollywood with exciting my passion for space and space exploration. As a small child, I remember watching re-runs of Star Trek. For a long time, that optimistic vision of Gene Roddenberry was my vision of the future. Star Wars got me excited about the endless array of adventures possible in a space setting, and finally, The Right Stuff showed me that there was plenty of excitement to ... more »
by Franklin Shifreen
December 2, 2012 | 0 comments
As a kid I lived across from a drive-in movie and saw movies like "The Conquest of Space" (1955) a movie made almost like a documentary about a mission to Mars. It awed with the majesty and drama of expeditions to the greatest frontier. A space program would unite the world in heart and spirit. I cannot accept the hiatus that has existed in travel to space ... more »
by John Newcomb
January 15, 2013 | 0 comments
It all started with airplanes. I was fascinated. I read World War 2 Aircraft Training Manuals like other kids read funny books. Later that interest began to be shared with space and the cosmos. And when I read George Gamow’s books, One – Two – Three -- Infinity and The Birth and Death Of The Sun I was hooked. I was going to work at NASA. That decision came early in my life before I exited high school. I was then lucky enough to live the dream. After college I went to work at the NASA Langley Research Center just ... more »
by Ejnar J. Fjerdingstad
December 3, 2012 | 0 comments
Although it is now 67 years ago, I remember quite clearly when my interest in space exploration began. It was 1945, I was 8 years old, and for the first time my family spent Christmas with my aunt in Jutland, whom we hadn't seen for several years, as it was too dangerous to travel there during the war. paragraph text For Christmas my aunt gave me a gift voucher for one dollar for a book seller in the neighborhood. I went to the shop alone, and stood pondering what book to buy, when my attention was drawn by a fanciful ... more »
by James W. Barnard
December 2, 2012 | 0 comments
[paragraph text]I grew up in Chicago in the post-World War II and Korean time. Aviation was literally "taking off", higher & faster. I was fortunate to be taken on a regular basis to the Adler Planetarium, where I learned about the stars & planets and space in general. We had the Collier's magazine series by Von Braun & Ley, and Disney's Tomorrow Land episodes, as well as various science fiction T.V. shows. In middle school, I began studying about rocket engines, especially liquid rockets. With some very indulgent parents, I designed and had professionally fabricated static test engines which were ... more »
by Hugo A. Durantini Luca
December 10, 2012 | 0 comments
When I was a kid science always amazed me more that any popular kid show or toy. There was a magazine called "Enciclopedia Popular Magazine" and every month I was always waiting for the next number. In August of 1992 they presented a number with Carl Sagan and the search for signals of extraterrestrial life, I was 8 years old in that moment (28 almost 29 now), that magazine started my fascination for space and allow me to know for the first time the wonderful work of Carl. (sorry for the low quality picture, but my home scanner is busted ... more »
by Gernot Semmer
December 2, 2012 | 0 comments
I think it's one pic in a french comic named 'Luc Orient': terrestrians are asked for help by human like aliens. While in their spaceship one of them opened a shield to explain that there are countless stars with countless planets with life on it. *bing* - got me! After this I've read a german SF pulp, other SF, science books on space. Besides my job I'm a volunteer guide at a public observatory in Nuremberg, Germany. ... more »
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What might the future be like without space exploration?
by Jim Bell
December 5, 2012
We are born explorers. As infants we first learn to use our senses -- vision, hearing, touch, taste -- to learn about the nature of the world around us. And then -- gloriously! -- as toddlers we add mobility and can finally rove around and explore not just what is within our vision, but also the unknown across the room, or around the corner. It turns out that that urge to explore never leaves us as we continue to grow, as individuals, and as a civilization. Nowadays our fascination with the unknown compels us to explore not just the world around us, but the limitless frontiers of distant planets, stars, and galaxies.
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