In March of 2015, I wrote about creating the structure to sustain a growing permanent economy that centered on catering to the needs personnel in orbital, Moon and asteroid mining operations. One of the aspects of the orbital operations was the clean up of the ever growing amount of space …
Read More »Space Marketplace: Creating An Orbital, Moon & Asteroid-Mining Customer Base
We may be reaching a convergence of technologies that will soon create a space industry straight out of Sci-Fi books. Building the Space Marketplace: Let’s begin by defining the Space Marketplace. For the purposes of this article, we’ll state that the Space Marketplace refers to the collective market established as …
Read More »Human Spaceflight in 2014: Where We are and Where We’re Headed
Gene Cernan was the last astronaut to walk on the moon. It is said that his last act in December of 1972 before climbing back into his lunar module was to carve his daughter’s initials into the lunar dust. Unless commercial space initiatives succeed, it is likely that the next …
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