What do you want to see next in space exploration?
by Lela Kapothanasis
November 26, 2012 | 0 comments
My vision is simple.A return to the MOON in my life time!!!This was the original dream of the Kennedy era.What happened to change this course?Have we been given all the data needed to make our choices for the future?This is the problem that must be addressed before decisions can be made!! ... more »
by Michael
November 26, 2012 | 0 comments
I would like to see colonization of Mars begin. We could start by sending housing modules to Mars so that when the first men land on Mars, they will have a place to live. ... more »
by Jim Walsh
November 26, 2012 | 0 comments
Keep exploring with robots. 1000's of times more science for the money. Plus they will need all those same types of instruments anyway. Manned will come eventually. Europa and Encelidus first. Cautionary Tale: One of the early bathyscaphes was manned and had both a porthole and a video camera monitor. The occupants spent all their time looking at the monitor because the view was so much better. These are no longer manned. ... more »
by William S Darter
November 26, 2012 | 1 comments
Life, as we know it, requires liquid water, and there is increasing evidence that some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn have water oceans covered by crusts of ice. These are probably our best bet for extra-terrestrial life, and exploring them should be our highest priority. ... more »
by Dion Duckett
November 26, 2012 | 0 comments
I agree with several comments that to ensure survival of the species we need to colonize the Moon and Mars as soon as possible. This will require that we improve our launch efficieny (space elevator or EM rail launcher) and put people in harms way to push the science forward in self-sustaining eco systems. ... more »
by Stephen White
November 26, 2012 | 0 comments
Mars is nice. Yes. But too much emphasis is placed there. There is a whole lot more space out there. Less articles on Mars and more on everything else, please. Speed of light will be broken. Some scoff. Before oxygen was 'discovered', the scoffers also said fire could not get any hotter. For thousands of years, an ordinary camp fire was the end all. We are ignorant today compared to our decendents of a thousand years from now. They will find a way. ... more »
by Tim Hendrickson
November 26, 2012 | 1 comments
Mankind's first step is a self-sustaining, manufacturing base on the moon. The base serves as a source of resources for plant Earth, and a launching point for further space exploration. Further exploration including: expeditionary manned probes of Mars and asteroids, robust robotic probes to the inner planets Venus and Mercury, and robust robotic probes to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. ... more »
by Michael McNabb
November 26, 2012 | 0 comments
I would simply like to quote one of my favorite astronauts, Story Musgrave (pictured), in a live TV interview with Ted Koppel on December 7th, 1993, from Space Shuttle Endeavour, during the first Hubble repair mission. I thought his rationale for humans going into space was the most true and honest thing I've ever heard anyone connected with NASA say.
KOPPEL:As we look at what you're doing up there, there are still people down here on Earth who are saying why, why go to the trouble, why go to the expense, why endanger lives to do what you're doing?
MUSGRAVE: We have ... more »
by Donald Stewart
November 26, 2012 | 0 comments
After spending $100,000,000 to build a space station, let's use it. Use it as a platform to launch vehicles to the Moon & beyond. Use it to construct a lunar shuttle. It will enable us to get to the Moon much more cheaply that lifting off the Earth's surface. We've made the investment to get us out of Earth's gravity well, so let's take advantage of it. We don't have all day: let's move it. If we do this, we could use space instead of war to rebuild the American economy. Give young people a vision of the future that ... more »
by Lawrence Squeri
November 26, 2012 | 0 comments
What do I believe should be next in space exploration? I really don't care as long as it is something big that grabs the attention of the public. A return to the moon or a trip to Mars would be fine. I fear, though, that the old saw about guns vs. butter has been replaced by space vs. butter, and butter is winning the battle. ... more »
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What sparked your passion for space?
by James Legler
December 10, 2012 | 0 comments
I was born in 1957 at the beginning of the space race. Every kid wanted to be an astronaut.But I wanted to see beyond what humankind could do. Now I am disabled and all I can do is watch others. But my imagination is still there taking me to other worlds. It's not much but that is my story. ... more »
by Bob Michael
December 2, 2012 | 0 comments
Visiting the iconic Griffith Planetarium with my parents when I was a little kid in LA. That place blew my little mind and changed my life. ... more »
by Pell Osborn
December 10, 2012 | 0 comments
What sparked my passion for space is a combination of things – a robustly clear and starry night, the Milky Way almost blindingly bright; the short-story collection "The Other Side of the Sky" by Arthur C. Clarke; the fascinating 1956 movie “Forbidden Planet,” which is still one of the few sc-fi films that makes us really ask and really wonder about deep time, deep space, deep evolution and deep issues on the path of civilizations with and without instrumentalities. We should be allowed to wonder about the all of it -- of outer space -- as often as we like. ... more »
by Jon Oesting
December 10, 2012 | 0 comments
As the son of parents how were the first of their families to go to college and both achieved the PhD, I was a very early reader. After school before the late bus, I had a favorite nook in the library where my mind soared with Heinlein, Asimov and Clark and on and on. Born in 1946, I was "space traveling" in 1955 as a nine year old at the public library. I got to see rocket development from the cast off V2's to Saturn and the Shuttle. My three children are all engineers. Let's built it and go exploring! ... more »
by David Brin
November 28, 2012 | 0 comments
A child of the 1950s, I had many influences toward dreaming of space. I recall spotting Sputnik in the sky and being enthralled. But I had already been hooked by the books of Willey Ley, portraying wonderful rotating space stations... ...and now that I think of it, my interest must have come even earlier. For those were also the days of the Western and tales about the Olde Frontier were on every cereal box and lunch box. And as the grandchild of immigrants I knew where opportunity lay... west. Always west. But in Los Angeles I could see - there ... more »
by Victor D. Manriquez
December 2, 2012 | 0 comments
As I little 4 - 5 years old kid I was afraid of the Moon. I tried to pass fast by the windows to be "observed" the least by that “strange white circle on the sky”. When I learned to read I found some texts in the newspapers about the Moon and some kind of man made "things" that were taking some rounds by the Moon and caught my curiosity. It came then, the Apollo 11 flight, the first landing and men walking on the Moon. The family joined in front the TV, and we were following the B & ... more »
by Florin Tiru
November 29, 2012 | 0 comments
I was 4 years old when the Moon landing was broadcasted by Romanian TV. Now I work for an aerospace company. ... more »
by Lydia Timmins
December 3, 2012 | 0 comments
Reading classic science fiction from Asimov, Heinlein and others made me think there was a future in space. I first discovered SF when I was about 7 years old, and quickly devoured all I could find. I wanted to be an astronaut--I even have a pamphlet NASA sent me when I was 12 telling me how I could become one! That didn't work out, but my passion for space continues. ... more »
by Donald G. Smith
November 29, 2012 | 0 comments
The Martian Chronicles ... more »
by Bonnie Gress
December 10, 2012 | 0 comments
Even as a small child I knew there wasn't really a man looking back at me from the moon. But I thought that if we worked at it hard enough, there could be, and that would be the coolest thing ever! Then, in 1969, there on my TV was Neil Armstrong hopping off that lander ladder and sending up a puff of dust as his boots landed right on the face of the man in the moon. I was hooked on space- the science, the technology, the exploration, and the dream for life. I was already enthralled by all the ... 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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