Commentary by Mike Snead, President, Spacefaring Institute™
Space solar power-generated astroelectricity is growing in recognition as the world’s future primary green energy source. This video and paper explain why this is happening. Continue Reading120 – The Coming Age of Astroelectricity
Stennis Space Center may be used to test new nuclear thermal rocket engines. Continue Reading113 – Photos of NASA Stennis Space Center nuclear rocket engine test facility
The Armstrong Air & Space Museum at Wapakoneta, Ohio, celebrates the 50th anniversary of Armstrong and Aldrin’s landing on the Moon. Continue Reading112 – Wapakoneta celebrates hometown Armstrong’s historic accomplishments
To add visitor security, the http://spacefaringamerica.net site has moved to https://www.spacefaringamerica.com. Also, a Privacy Page has been added along with a popup to briefly explain the use of cookies. Continue ReadingNotice – the Spacefaring America blog has moved
I am reposting this blog entry along with an update. The original posting disappeared while migrating the website to a new server. If you recently signed up to receive email Continue Reading79 – Excellent historical technical description of NASA’s Space Shuttle System (Repost with update)
President Trump’s reconstitution of the National Space Council has generated important public discussion of America’s future in outer space as a true commercial human spacefaring nation. On October 5, 2017, Continue Reading76 – Space Review Article: Some commentary about the National Space Council’s inaugural meeting (Part 2)
When I first started this Spacefaring America blog in 2007, the conjunction of “space” and “faring” into “spacefaring” had not yet entered common usage. While humans had been seafaring for Continue Reading61 – The hyphen is not yet quite out of “space-faring”, but it should be
While American astronauts made history in turning President Kennedy’s manned lunar landing challenge into reality, behind the scenes were remarkable engineers that turned technologies into operating capability. Hubert P. (Hu) Continue Reading59 – In memory of an outstanding Apollo 11 engineer – Hubert P. Davis
Recap After a general discussion of the fallacy of trying to use the prize concept to advance commercial human spaceflight, I started a series of postings focused on the Cheap Continue Reading44 – Part 3 of criticism of the Cheap Access to Space (CATS) draft legislative proposal
The foundation of any civilization’s transportation infrastructure is the ability to transport passengers safely. Let’s take a look at what this means. (Please note that I am not an attorney Continue Reading43 – Continued discussion of CATS: Why is there inadequate attention to passenger safety?
This is the first of several Spacefaring America blog entries discussing and providing criticism of the Cheap Access to Space (CATS) draft legislative proposal now being advocated by the Space Continue Reading42 – Initial discussion and criticism of the Cheap Access to Space (CATS) draft legislative proposal
With a new proposal being developed to advance commercial passenger and payload orbital spaceflight using a prize, it’s worthwhile to explore whether this approach makes sense. I don’t believe that Continue Reading41 – The fallacy of using prizes to try to advance commercial passenger spaceflight
The Space Frontier Foundation and the National Space Society announced March Storm 2015 (March 15 – 19, 2015) in Washington DC to lobby Congress on advancing American commercial human space Continue Reading40 – Coalition of the Space Frontier Foundation and the National Space Society announced to resume citizens lobbying of Congress
A new effort is beginning to promote the development of fully-reusable space access. (More will be coming on this blog on this effort.) In 2006, I wrote a technical paper Continue Reading39 – Space Development Steering Committee’s website posts my paper “Technically-achievable, Near-term Space Logistics”
Now in its third year of publication, the on-line (free) Journal of Space Philosophy Spring 2014 issue has been released by the Kepler Space Institute. It is lengthy at 177 pages Continue Reading36 – Journal of Space Philosophy, Spring, 2014 published
Can you see these three websites on your government or corporate computers? Spacefaring Institute LLC Spacefaring America blog U.S. Spacefaring Foundation blog If not, request that access to these three Continue Reading35 – Can you see these websites on your government or corporate computer?
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