Author Archives: FriendlyHelper
Test pilot "Cowboy Joe" mounts his steed in 1955 at Edwards, California…
Ludovic Celle’s Space Art
"New Visions for Humans in Space" – Planetfest 2012 Panel Discussion
Peter Diamandis: “There is plenty of cash on this planet. Plenty of private capital. That was born in the fifties and sixties, inspired by space, who now are saying, ‘You know, I can’t take it with me, let me make a big change and invest and go into the space frontier.'” I have a question for the audience…if you had a shot of going on a one-way trip to Mars, and you had a seventy five percent chance of landing safely and living there – seventy five percent – how many folks would go on a one way trip to Mars? Raise your hand. Okay, now, hear me out…it’s a fifty-fifty shot now. How many of you in the audience that have your hands up on a fifty-fifty shot actually have a graduate degree? Ok, we’ve got plenty. Enough for a crew at least.
Christian Frei "Space Tourists"
Reduced Gravity Research
Two-part interview with SSI President Gary Hudson on the Great Enterprise Initiative. Gary talks about plans for G-Lab, an orbiting variable gravity facility that would conduct crucial research essential to humanity’s expansion into space.