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Review: The Soviet Space Program and International Collaboration during Perestroika
The Soviet Space Program and International Collaboration during Perestroika, 1985-1991 by Olga Dubrovina Palgrave Macmillan hardcover, 424 pp.
Welcome, Jared Isaacman
Home News Welcome, Jared Isaacman Welcome, Jared Isaacman. We who love NASA, or at least the idea of NASA, wish you the very best in taking leadership of the great American space agency. You seem to be an agent for change and NASA sorely needs that. Its human spaceflight program, which garners most of its public attention and financial support, […] The post Welcome, Jared Isaacman appeared first on SpaceNews. Read more from original source...
Welcome, Jared Isaacman
Welcome, Jared Isaacman. We who love NASA, or at least the idea of NASA, wish you the very best in taking leadership of the great American space agency. You seem to be an agent for change and NASA sorely needs that.
Humans to Mars or humans exploring Mars?
Home News Humans to Mars or humans exploring Mars? We should rethink how to send humans to Mars — a goal now getting much discussion. With proposed budgets and current technical difficulties in human spaceflight development making such a goal unrealistic, it may be time to change the focus from humans getting to Mars to sustainable exploration of Mars by humans. To that end, […] The post Humans to Mars or humans exploring Mars? appeared first on SpaceNews. Read more from original source...
Humans to Mars or humans exploring Mars?
We should rethink how to send humans to Mars — a goal now getting much discussion. With proposed budgets and current technical difficulties in human spaceflight development making such a goal unrealistic, it may be time to change the focus from humans getting to Mars to sustainable exploration of Mars by humans. To that end, we need to deal with how unrealistic the human-to-Mars goal is.
An abandoned test tube on Mars could hold the secret to life’s origins
An abandoned test tube on Mars could hold the secret to life’s origins (washingtonpost.com) An abandoned test tube on Mars could hold the secret to life’s origins By Louis Friedman 2025072312000700 The three big questions about life — What is life? How did life originate? Is there extraterrestrial life? (Are we alone?) — are the raison d'être of space exploration. Life is why we explore.
Slashing NASA’s Programs Will Squander America’s Place in Space
For more than half a century planetary exploration and space science have been a hallmark of American achievement and excellence. From Mercury to Pluto and beyond, we have gained enormous understanding about planetary origins and evolution. We have learned about the atmospheric, surface and interior dynamics of other worlds. All those discoveries have carried implications for what’s happening here on Earth.
Moon, Mars - China leads to both
In the Senate hearing considering the confirmation of Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator, he and Senator Ted Cruz engaged in extensive dialogue about China. They strongly expressed the view that […]
Moon, Mars - China leads to both
In the Senate hearing considering the confirmation of Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator, he and Senator Ted Cruz engaged in extensive dialogue about China. They strongly expressed the view that the United States must get our astronauts back to the moon before the Chinese get theirs there. Isaacman expanded that goal to assert that we should work on sending humans to Mars at the same time. The six-decade old idea of a space race with astronauts putting footprints on the moon is still with us.
NASA’s no to Mars
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NASA’s no to Mars
In a stumbling statement this week, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson presented the NASA position on Mars Sample Return: “The bottom line is that $11 billion is too expensive and not returning samples until 2040 is unacceptably too long,” he said April 15. Actually, it was his top line — NASA had already signaled they would not support Mars Sample Return (MSR) — indeed the budget decision had been made a couple of months ago and had resulted in layoffs of much of the MSR workforce.
Wednesday Open Thread
BY: notaskinnycook IN: Tuesday Open Thread BY: notaskinnycook IN: Tuesday Open Thread BY: notaskinnycook IN: Tuesday Open Thread BY: JohnInDenver IN: Tuesday Open Thread BY: JohnInDenver IN: Boebert’s Got Mike Johnson By The Short Hairs BY: Louis Friedman IN: Tina Peters Fires Lawyers To Stall Trial Once Again BY: davebarnes IN: Tuesday Open Thread BY: davebarnes IN: Tina Peters Fires Lawyers To Stall Trial Once Again BY: davebarnes IN: Tuesday Open Thread BY: Matt A.
Mars Sample-Return Missions Could Reduce Tensions with China on Earth
In September NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) independent review board (IRB), led by the agency’s former “Mars czar” Orlando Figueroa, released findings and recommendations about the MSR project, a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) that means to return the first samples from the Red Planet. The IRB members did a terrific job analyzing, in their words, the “near zero probability” of its current plans and budget succeeding.
Luvu Brands Reports Fiscal 2023 Second Quarter and Six Month Results and Announces Conference Call
Luvu Brands Reports Fiscal 2023 Second Quarter and Six Month Results and Announces Conference Call p p p p Net sales increased 13.Adjusted EBITDA of $877,000 compared to $332,000 in the prior fiscal year second quarter.Adjusted EBITDA of $1,557,000 compared to $733,000 in the prior fiscal year second quarter.Louis Friedman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, commented, 'We are pleased to report better-than-expected results for the second quarter with net revenues of $8.
A COTS-like alternative for planetary exploration
Concepts like Rocket Lab’s private Venus mission might be a way to get around the budget pressures on NASA’s planetary science program. (credit: Rocket Lab) by Louis Friedman The recent projection presented by Dr. Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s planetary science division, at the Fall Meeting of the AGU was sobering and should serve as both a warning and a call for action to the planetary science community.
[2106.14319] A Fast Response Mission to Rendezvous with an Interstellar Object
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Op-ed | China, the moon, Mars, and beyond — an opportunity for human cooperation - SpaceNews
by Louis D. Friedman — December 2, 2020 SpaceNews photo illustration SpaceNews photo illustration China this week is conducting a robotic lunar sample return mission, something the United States has never done. The grab-and-go sample return is proceeding while a Chinese lunar rover is wrapping up its second year of service on the moon — on its far side, something also never done by the United States.
Commentary | Roadmap to Mars
by Louis Friedman — April 28, 2014 Credit: ESA image A spate of congressional interest in the goal of sending humans to Mars has cropped up in the past few months along with calls by space policy commentators for NASA to define a roadmap for human spaceflight. The Human to Mars Summit conference in Washington last week added to the discussion. In recent weeks, hearings in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate featured the goal of sending humans to Mars.
NRC’s “Pathway to Exploration” should start with the Asteroid Redirect Mission
In this NASA illustration, an Orion spacecraft prepares to dock with the Asteroid Redirect Mission robotic spacecraft, which has captured and bagged a small asteroid. While a recent report was skeptical of the utility of the mission, others argue it is an affordable near-term step on the pathway to Mars. (credit: NASA) by Louis Friedman and Thomas D.
OP-ED | For the United States, a second race to the moon is a second-rate goal
by Louis Friedman — February 3, 2020 Artist's concept of a Ceres Robotics commercial lunar lander on the Moon. Ceres Robotics, one of five companies NASA selected in November for the Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, was one of the Founder Institute's first space companies. Credit: Ceres Robotics Once again, U.S. policy for human spaceflight is under debate.
Phobos LIFE (Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment)
AstrobiologyAhead of Print Research Article Bruce H. Betts, David Warmflash, Raymond E. Fraze, Louis Friedman, Elena Vorobyova, Timothy G. Lilburn, Amy Smith, Petra Rettberg, K. Ingemar Jönsson, Neva Ciftcioglu, George E. Fox, Tomas Svitek, Joseph L.
Back to 'back to the moon' - SpaceNews.com
This op-ed originally appeared in the April 9, 2018 issue of SpaceNews magazine. The Trump administration has set out a new civil space policy. The announcement and first meeting of the newly reconstituted National Space Council emphasized two new directions and one old one: 1. Human spaceflight is to be focused on the moon; 2. Direct government funding for the International Space Station (ISS) is to cease after 2024; and 3. The new Space Launch System (SLS) is to be built.
Future Tense: Becoming a Multi-Planet Species
Humans and robots together are symbiotically creating a new age of exploration, extending human presence and evolution to transform us into a multi-planet species. Not as humans vs. robots or as robots vs. humans. Such characterizations are archaic. Our multi-planet evolution will be a continuum of human and robot, with us physically present on Earth and Mars and virtually present beyond.
Oh the Places We Won't Go: Humans Will Settle Mars, and Nowhere Else [Excerpt]
Adapted from Human Spaceflight: From Mars to the Stars, by Louis Friedman. Copyright © 2015 Louis Friedman with permission of the publisher. The University of Arizona Press. All rights reserved. Humans will become a multi-planet species by making it to Mars, but no farther. That is, they will never travel beyond Mars. Some find this to be negative—an absolute statement of limits and thus of giving up.
The Space Review: Phobos indeed
A NASA illustration of its robotic Asteroid Redirect Mission spacecraft on the surface of an asteroid. Giving up on ARM to send a mission instead to Phobos may be unwise. (credit: NASA) A human mission to Phobos or Deimos is a good idea. It is also an old idea. Atmospheric and environmental scientist Fred Singer was a champion of it, zealously promoting the putative benefits of their resources.
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