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It is December 21, 2015, and SpaceX has made history … again. WHILE delivering 11 satellites to orbit, the Falcon 9 booster, the first stage, landed at Cape Canaveral – the first EVER rocket to return to the landing pad… Continue Reading →
NASA, and our Military refer to manned trips to space as “Missions” and locations for landings as “bases”. We are beginning to see space advocates talk of those same landings as “colonies”. And more rarely, a small minority are looking… Continue Reading →
Never in the history of humanity have people been convinced to leave their homes based on logic, science, or law – it has always been a departure of desperation, and futility. Settlers are people fed up with the way things… Continue Reading →
We survive by overcoming the boundaries, by paying the price for progress with human lives. It is the way of our nature, to reach beyond our knowledge, and our experience. We are on the brink. of again entering the wilderness… Continue Reading →
It is sad that human progression is often in the form of one step back and two steps forward. Foothold! The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines Foothold as: a position usable as a base for further advance. The moon represents such… Continue Reading →
Why should we go to space? To redefine our identity; to live lives full of Purpose; and to build Hope for the future. Our sense of identity is being whittled away; Our sense of purpose is evaporating, and any hope… Continue Reading →
My efforts at building an Aquaponics system have grown over the years, now I am looking at full blown Life Support. This will blend my interests in self-sufficiency with those of space settlement. And … it is a natural progression… Continue Reading →