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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 decades longer than the past two spent building Blue Origin, the aerospace manufacturer and suborbital spa...

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 | 8:39 p.m. Some Vandenberg Air Force Base members have been keeping a close eye on out-of-control debri...

Image source: Getty Images. Things are moving faster than you think It's 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 incumbent U.S. space contractor United Launch Alliance. As fast as this change has happened already,...

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 O'Neill, 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 for his 1977 book, “The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space,” which details how humans can b...