Commentary by Mike Snead, President, Spacefaring Institute™
Watch the key parts of President Kennedy’s 1962 Rice University speech where he called for America to be the world’s leading spacefaring nation. Continue Reading111 – President Kennedy’s “We choose to go to the moon” speech
America will begin a spacefaring industrial revolution transforming America into a true human spacefaring nation AND will use the new astroelectricity to rebuild America for the 22nd century. Continue ReadingAstroelectricity eBook published
As General Arnold first recognized 60 years ago, the United States must become a true human spacefaring nation, both militarily and commercially. Continue Reading99 – 2019: Moving America towards becoming a true human spacefaring nation (Part 2)
While Congress is exhausting itself in the political judo of rearranging the “deck chairs” of Congress, technologically and operationally the United States is making significant strides towards the long-held national Continue Reading98 – 2019: Moving America towards becoming a true human spacefaring nation (Part 1)
Lt. Gen. Steven L. Kwast, Commander of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command, speaks to Air Force scholars about America’s spacefaring future and the national security demands this Continue Reading96 – Air Force Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast talks about America’s spacefaring future
Recently, the Honorable Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, published an op-ed “How to Seize Revolution in Hypersonics and Space.” (Aviation Week Network, June 22, 2018.). Long Continue Reading93 – The Space Review: An Alternative Proposal for a Revolution in Hypersonics and Space
On January 9, 2017, this article was published in The Space Review. (A PDF of the article is here.) In the 1990s, I began to focus on how to build Continue Reading70 – Space Review article: Should NASA build spacefaring logistics infrastructure?
America faces two critical challenges this century. The first is responding to the uncertainty that the abnormally high and rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) level will have detrimental environmental consequences Continue Reading68 – Understanding Why Wind and Ground Solar Energy Cannot Replace Fossil Fuels
America faces two critical challenges this century. The first is responding to the uncertainty that the abnormally high and rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) level will have detrimental environmental Continue Reading67 – Understanding Why Nuclear Power Cannot Replace Fossil Fuels
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
On April 4, 2016, this article was published in The Space Review. (A PDF version of the article is here.) The United States is transitioning from a primary reliance on Continue Reading60 – Space Review article: Federal Legislation to Jumpstart Space Solar Power
On March 14, 2016, the final part of my three-part series on world environmental and US energy security was published in The Space Review. (The PDF of the article Continue Reading58 – Space Review series (Part 3): US Terrestrial Non-Fossil Fuel Energy vs. Space Solar Power
In 2014, I wrote an update to the my 2008 paper, The End of Easy Energy and What to Do About It. The 2014 paper, The American Energy Security Continue Reading55 – Becoming Spacefaring: America’s Path Forward in Space (Revised)
In 2008, partially inspired by the 2007 remarks of Dr. John Mankins on the world’s growing energy crisis, I published a paper with my take on this very important issue. Continue Reading52 – Abstract of The American Energy Security Crisis Solution—Space Solar Power (2014)