The surprisingly strong case for it.
One of the many disappointments of the NRC report on human spaceflight is the almost total neglect of this topic. That’s at least partially because if was rooted in a neo-Apollo mindset, which must have boots on the ground, though it’s not clear what they’ll be doing.
Without the space. XKCD stitched together all of the land area in the solar system.
Monte Morin has a great piece on him and the ISEE-3 reboot.
A beautiful map of the field, courtesy of the late GRAIL satellites.
Jeff Foust reports on the NRC report, and reactions to it.
As I tweeted last week, as both a space enthusiast and a taxpayer, I don’t want to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to send a few civil servants to Mars decades from now. Call me completely uninspired.
I’d missed this, but apparently Louise Riofrio’s book project met its funding goal. I’ll look forward to seeing it.
Dennis Wingo has a guest article at Watts Up With That.
The B612 Foundation is going to have a press conference at the Seattle Museum of Flight at 2:30 EDT. It will be live streamed.
My thoughts on the latest discovery from the Kepler data, over at PJMedia.
by a researcher who says that planets that can accommodate LAWKI aren’t as common as some are saying.