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“You don’t choose your passions, your passions choose you.” So begins Jeff Bezos, then the world’s richest man. It is Thursday, 9 May 2019 and he is on stage in front of a dimly lit audience, somewhat reminiscent of Apple’s famous keynote events. He will present his long-term vision not only for the future of some of his business interests, but for all of humanity, spanning hundreds of years into the future, and defining millennia after that. It is a dream he has held on to for decade...

Re-entry of the space junk is expected Saturday within an 18-hour window The re-entry prediction for the Long March 5B rocket body from The Aerospace Corp.‘s Center for Orbital and Re-entry Debris Studies from earlier this week. The ground traces shown in the above image extend the full uncertainty window for re-entry with predictions expected to improve as re-entry draws closer. (The Aerospace Corp. photo) By Janene Scully, Noozhawk North County Editor | @JaneneScully May 7, 2021 | 8:3...

Image source: Getty Images. Things are moving faster than you think Its been only a little more than a decade since the first SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral (and Jacobson was there to witness it!) and a little less than a decade since SpaceX ran its first resupply mission to the International Space Station. In that time SpaceX -- one of the first promising space start-ups spotted by Jacobson and his crew -- has grown into a bona fide space company and a worthy rival to i...

The documentary film “The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O’Neill,” premiering Saturday, April 17, will introduce a new generation to O’Neill, a Princeton physics professor and inventor who sparked a grassroots movement to build Earth-li

Documentary featuring Princeton visionary physicist Gerard O’Neill premieres Saturday, April 17 Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications April 16, 2021 10:33 a.m. The documentary film “The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O’Neill,” premiering Saturday, April 17, will introduce a new generation to ONeill, a Princeton physics professor and inventor who sparked a grassroots movement to build Earth-like habitats in space. (View the trailer.) O’Neill is best known ...

The High Frontier Live Premiere Event Announcement "The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. ONeill" tells the untold story of Dr. Gerard K. ONeill who wrote the 1977 book "The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space," which sparked a grassroots movement to build Earth-like habitats in space in order to solve Earths greatest crises. The film is told through "Gerrys Kids as they affectionately call themselves; his peers, family, and the younger generation who followed that movement and a...

Harvard Law I read with keen interest “The Education of a Harvard Lawyer” (January-February, page 38) by Nancy Boxley Tepper, my classmate. As I recall, she was one of five women in the class and I was one of three blacks. I noted with interest her comments about the phenomenon (“harassment”) of “Ladies Day” and the women’s invitation as 1L’s to Dean Griswold’s home for dinner and tea. She noted that her black male classmates were not singled out for “harassment” on our �...

A habitat at Ceres could be the gateway to the outer solar system In the near future, humanity stands a good chance of expanding its presence beyond Earth. This includes establishing infrastructure in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), on the surface of (and in orbit around) the Moon, and on Mars. This presents numerous challenges, as living in space and on other celestial bodies entails all kinds of potential risks and health hazards – not the least of which are radiation and long-term exposure to low g...

Huntsville chosen as preferred site for U.S. Space Command Headquarters “I couldn’t be more pleased to learn that Alabama will be the new home to the United States Space Command!” Ivey said in a statement. Author: WZDX News Updated: 8:14 PM CST January 13, 2021 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The Secretary of the Air Force has chosen Huntsvilles Redstone Arsenal to be the preferred location for the U.S. Space Command Headquarters. The U.S. Air Force made the announcem...

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