What do you want to see next in space exploration?
by R. Hague (member since 1980)
November 19, 2012 | 0 comments
At age 82 I probably won't see my vision but it would be to establish mining colonies on asteroids and explore Europa, Mercury, Mars and Titan. I want to see humans permanently in space. I think private enterprise may do it. ... more »
by Dr George Preddey
November 19, 2012 | 0 comments
I share Carl Sagan's vision of planet Earth as one pale blue dot floating in an immense universe and want to see humanity's political, military, and economic leaders recognise that the message of peer-reviewed science is that, paraphrasing Einstein,a completely new way of thinking is required if humanity is to continue to survival on that pale blue dot - let alone voyage into the wider universe - particularly in respect of the twin threats of being frozen to extinction by a nuclear war (Sagan's "nuclear winter", reference below) or fried to extinction by human-induced global warming (Hansen's "game over for ... more »
by Gregory Stern
November 19, 2012 | 0 comments
The reason I titled this "Starbucks in Space" is to convey the pragmatic approach I think we need to take in expanding humanity beyond the Earth. I want to see lunar bases, space stations, colonies throughout the Solar System and really become a multiplanetary society as SpaceX president Elon Musk envisions. But to do that, we have to somehow convince the masses that going into Space is not just an expensive science project, but a real destination and solution. In a world of struggling economies, Space can provide literally infinite new markets, new resources for manufacturing, and innumerable jobs to ... more »
by Chris Bobo
November 19, 2012 | 0 comments
I would like to see a permanently occupied base on the moon, human colonies on Mars and the development of propulsion systems capable of taking human beings to nearby star systems. ... more »
by Kurt Christie
November 19, 2012 | 0 comments
I want to see ALL countries share in the exploration of space, whatever the exploration entails. Perhaps that is the only way we can find peace and cooperation on THIS planet. ... more »
by William Ameen, MD
November 19, 2012 | 0 comments
I would like to see the establishment of a radio and/or optical telescope on the far side of the moon within the next 15 years. ... more »
by Jonathan Schaff
November 19, 2012 | 0 comments
I would like to see a human return to the moon before the last Apollo astronaut dies. ... more »
by Doug Ash
November 19, 2012 | 0 comments
A permanent base on the moon followed by a manned mission to Mars. ... more »
by John Blinke
November 19, 2012 | 0 comments
We need to get smarter about what it takes to put men in space. We need gravity to be healthy -- but how much? Could we live well at 1/10th G? Or 1/2 G? Do we need a full G of gravity? A rotating space station could find out. Then we can use spin for "artificial gravity" on long duration space missions and begin designing manned space craft with that in mind. ... more »
by K. Christensen
November 19, 2012 | 0 comments
The on-going expansion of our universe serves as a fundamental law of nature. This law can be viewed as a metaphorical fuel to our species habits, we as humans have quested for more and will continuely require new resources. The future of mankind is thus interwoven between the future of science, because its is mainly science that fuels technological advancement. Ever since Newtons principia classical mechanics has been transformed and tailored to a plethora of other scientific establishments. Examples of such as thermochemistry, quantum mechanics, business economics, modern ideal gas law etc. Human's ingenuity will now need to apply engineering, ... more »
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What sparked your passion for space?
by Ella Derbyshire
December 18, 2012 | 0 comments
There are special places on our planet, although not as many as in the past, where a child can look up and see stars and the happenings in a truly dark sky. In the 1950's, cool autumn nights in New York's Adirondack Mountains brought star so bright I could almost touch them, with planets and comets wandering through the darkness and auroras dancing across the variable moon. The spectacle required some patience, but was free for alll who cared to look up. It was magical, awe-inspiring, and captured my imagination for a lifetime. ... more »
by Sara Magalotti
December 2, 2012 | 0 comments
WWII in Europe. The city of Rome was being bombed regularly by American planes, so there were no street lights and all windows were either painted over or darkened with very heavy curtains and shutters. One good thing came of it: the night sky was dark, dressed in black velvet with twinkling jewels. I was six years old and in love with science. A couple of times a week, on clear nights, my polymath father turned out the lights in the dining room, opened the window and sat me on the wide marble windowsill, then showed me the constellations, told ... more »
by Paul J. Heidt
November 29, 2012 | 0 comments
Maybe it is not so much what the the vision is, but rather how we pass this vision and dream on to the next generation. Maybe this is out of place, but I wish to share as maybe how we pass this on to the next ones. A Trail of Stars It was a few months after the twenty second year I had known this sprite when she ended up on my door step asking if I would like to take some time out to do some stargazing along the ‘trail’ that evening. The Three Rivers Trail was 30 some ... more »
by Bob Wiersma
December 10, 2012 | 0 comments
To watch the stars, planets and our own Moon at night makes me feel small in the vastness of it all, but here we are wondering, thinking and asking questions. We have an opportunity with all the information available if you know where to find that information, to answer a lot of questions previous generations were never able to know. Our quest now is to keep looking and asking, and sometimes just to go there and see for ourselves. ... more »
by Michael O'Brien
December 10, 2012 | 0 comments
I believe that the most important thing we humans can do is to explore our universe. Since even before Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos', listening or reading about space, or peering through my dad's telescope, always made my mind feel like it was flying through space, too. From a time even before that, before Star Wars, before reruns of Star Trek, I remember my mom showing pictures from the Mercury program that were featured in full color in our old World Book Encyclopedia set. The images were bold and leaping from the page. Things were never quite the same after that. ... more »
by Neil Bibler
December 10, 2012 | 0 comments
I remember lying on my family's lawn in Fort Worth, Texas, around age 9 watching "shooting stars" and marveling. I read tons of science fiction _ before it turned more into fantasy and myth than science. I watched a black and white TV picture with wonder as man walked on the moon _ and the whimsical child's toy that stood on the table at the same time seemed an appropriate coemmentary. Today I marvel at the detailed photos of Mars and the spacecraft photos of moons and planets _ and the views of Earth from the International Space Station. And ... more »
by John Richardson
November 29, 2012 | 0 comments
Really, it's all summed up in a blog post I made a while ago: http://behindthehedge.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/a-shout-out-to-the-planetary-society/ (and, in a Toast to the Memory of Neil Armstrong: http://behindthehedge.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/toast-to-the-memory-of-neil-armstrong/ ... more »
by David Shander
December 2, 2012 | 0 comments
I couldn't express it better than Rachel Carson did in her essay of the same name. "It was a clear night without a moon. With a friend I went out on a flat headland that is almost a tiny island, being all but surrounded by the waters of the bay. There the horizons are remots and distant rims on the edge of space. We lay and looked up at the sky and the millions of stars that blazed in darkness. ..... A few lights burned in cottages. otherwise there was no reminder of other human life; my companion and I ... more »
by Aimé Duclos
December 10, 2012 | 0 comments
As a 6 or 7 year old in the early 1950's, my dad got me hooked on the sky by bringing home some really cool poster sized maps of the solar system. My older and younger siblings didn't seem to care but I was totally fascinated, often thereafter staying out after dark and just looking at the stars. paragraph As luck would have it as the 50's rolled on the great Space Race got rolling, too, with the quest to put a satelite in orbit, achieved first by Sputnik and it's haunting beep...beep...beep. About that time I was given my ... more »
by joseph G. Filosa
November 28, 2012 | 0 comments
It must have been Apollo 11. Although I was extremely young at the time, I remember all the excitement around me over the first lunar landing. Over the years I developed a love for space exploration and Astronomy. I was introudced to Astronomy magazine by my future (at that time) brother in Law, and through the course of my youth began stargazing on a regular basis. When I went to college I majored in geology with a heavy empthasis in astrogeology. Since I still needed "science" credits I also took a year of astronomy. My passion for astronomy and space ... 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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