…at the same time, a program called Men into Space. This program also portrayed realistic space missions as imagined for the then-near future, but Men into Space had a more…
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Spacecoach: Toward a Deep Space Infrastructure
…into a space station. Modules like these could provide habitable areas for a Spacecoach. Credit: Bigelow Aerospace (http://www.bigelowaerospace.com). McConnell calls the Spacecoach the basis of a ‘real world Starfleet,’ and…
The People’s Space Odyssey: 2010: The Year We Make Contact
…Monoliths and space locations and spaceships removed, would not seem terribly out of place in a more conventional film or conversations in everyday life. Through most of the film, the…
Bound in Shallows: Space Exploration and Institutional Drift
…in his paper “An Astrosociological Perspective on Space-Capable vs. Spacefaring Societies” Employing Pass’s terminology, spacefaring breakout is the transition from space-capable to spacefaring civilization, and the above schematic trichotomy distinguishes…
Space Development Futures: Spacefaring Infrastructures of Indifferently Spacefaring Civilizations
…Possible Civilizations 5a. Space Development of Enlightenment Civilizations 5b. Space Development of Scientific Civilizations 5c. Space Development of Environmentalist Civilizations 5d. Space Development of Traditionalist Civilizations 5e. Space Development of…
The Human Adventure is Just Beginning: Alien and Star Trek: The Motion Picture at 40
…into Earth orbit of the Soviet artificial satellite they called Sputnik 1, the era (also known as the Space Race) literally took off in the following decade. The biggest space…
Indifferently Spacefaring Civilizations
…what will be, the role of spacefaring in spacefaring civilizations? If we count the present human spacefaring capability as constituting a contemporary spacefaring civilization, the question can be partly addressed…
The Decision Rests with You! The Day the Earth Stood Still, Seven Decades Later
…through telescopes, some of which turned distinctly green in color during the Red Planet’s much longer summers. Prior to the Space Age, astronomers thought the Martian atmosphere was relatively dense…
The Next Steps in Space
…to move forward in space exploration is to give all problems to SpaceX to solve, give all the money to SpaceX, everything is superior if it is made by SpaceX…
7. Televised Angst
…The rest of the cast mirrored the castaways, although they were performed by different actors. The premise is that a wagon and stagecoach consisting of two coachmen and five passengers…