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POPS7 New Questions on the Future of Mars and Private Space for Buzz Aldrin
Do we have a space race on our hands now? The finish lines are entirely different. All China has to do is take a Shenzhou and join it up with a Russian propulsion stage and go around the moon and come back. Our purpose is not just to go around the moon. We need to establish a coherent, deliberate program that prepares for commercial use of lunar resources and permanence on Mars. And maybe we learn how to go to smaller places with resources not on the moon. Asteroids just may have very high value. How do you hope space travel will play out for regular folks? I want to increase the opportunity for more people to share in going into orbit. I think I can establish a controlled, legal, highly productive, random selection of small investments by people and a selection process that works like a lottery. The experience that you win is nontransferable. You put a name down when you buy a ticket, and that person has to use it or lose it.
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POPSWill NASA Test a Plasma Drive on the ISS? A plasma engine such as the VASIMR uses radio waves to ionize a propellant, and magnetic fields to accelerate or decelerate the resulting plasma to generate thrust. The VASIMR injects a gas such as hydrogen in to an engine that turns it in to plasma. The radio waves are now used to energize the plasma further as it moves through the engine. The plasma, now accelerated and heated, is focused and directed as exhaust using a magnetic nozzle.
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POPSThe Credit W Deserves In addition, trade with Africa has doubled during Bush's tenure. Yet you don't hear much about his African legacy. Bush came into office promising "compassionate conservatism." And he's largely lived up to that promise, but he gets little or no credit. Aid to Africa is only one aspect of that compassion. This week, an annual report to Congress notes a historic drop in America's number of chronically homeless people over a two-year period: a 30 percent decline between 2005 and 2007. The study showed that a new policy enacted to promote "housing first" for chronically homeless people - most of whom are either mentally ill or substance abusers - actually works. Instead of allowing these individuals to shuttle between the streets, shelters and hospitals in a vicious cycle, the new policy called for intervention to get them into permanent housing.
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POPSNew Gear to Boost Space Station Population The station's new Water Reclamation System, a refrigerator-sized filtration and recycler unit, is designed to ease that shuttle dependence and help make larger crews more self-sufficient. It is scheduled to launch alongside the new toilet and phone booth-sized sleeping chambers in November aboard NASA's shuttle Endeavour, which will also ferry NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus to the station to join its Expedition 18 crew. 'By getting the crew quarters deployed, we'll have extra bedrooms,' Magnus said. The station's Russian Zvezda service module currently contains the station's main crew quarters.
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POPSWhy Carbon is Not a Bad Word Beyond making up the bricks of life, carbon is virtually inescapable in industry as well. The plastics that can be found in everything from your chair to the Space Shuttle contain carbon — as does, of course, our energy supply. Our main fossil fuels — coal, petroleum and gasoline — are made up of carbon that's been compressed in the Earth for millions of years, which we're now burning and rapidly restoring to the atmosphere. (The same process occurs when we burn wood in a fireplace.)
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POPSCoast to Coast AM Interview - John Lear: UFO Secrets Revealed
In his first interview with George Noory, retired airline pilot John Lear spoke on a variety of topics which included his experiences as a pilot, NASA's secret space missions, and life on other planets. A fourth astronaut died in the Apollo 1 fire of 1967 but the reason it wasn't made public was because he belonged to the "secret astronaut corps,".. This secret program started going to the moon in 1962 and landed on Mars in 1966, apparently using covert anti-gravity technology. Publicized space missions such as the Shuttle are actually a cover-up for what is really going on, added Lear. Also kept from the public, is the fact that there is life similar to ours on most of the planets in our solar system, he declared. For instance, Mars has a population of 660 million (mostly underground) and Venus is actually "green and beautiful." Further, the sky is blue on both Mars and our Moon, Lear said. Earth, he asserted, is a "farm for harvesting souls," and when people die their souls trave
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POPSIs Florida the Sunset State? Florida was once a swampy rural backwater, the poorest and emptiest state in the South. But in the 20th century, air-conditioning, bug spray and the miracle of water control helped transform it into a migration destination for the restless masses of Brooklyn and Cleveland, Havana and Port-au-Prince. I am a sixth generation Floridian, but I am told there are more than 4000 new people coming to live here every day.
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POPSLast shuttle flight set for May 2010 Weather permitting.Then there will be a transition to the new launch vehicles Here is a link to the NASA Constellation program page that includes details of the new launch vehicles Orion, and Ares. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/main/index.html
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POPSIs Helium 3 Exploitation China's Hidden Lunar Agenda? UN Treaties in place state that the moon and its minerals are the common heritage of mankind, so the quest to use Helium-3 as an energy source would likely demand joint international co-operation. Hopefully, exploitation of the moon's resources will be viewed as a solution for the world, rather than an out-moded nation-state solution.
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