Collapse Expected In The Number of Candidate Astronauts
From Slashdot “Science reports that silkworms may be an ideal food source for future space missions. They breed quickly, require little space and water, and generate smaller amounts of excrement than...
View ArticleThe Tragedy Of The Anti-Space Travel Space Scientist
One can only feel sad upon reading Giovanni F Bignami’s op-ed piece about the race to the Moon and what choices to take for the future (“Once in a Blue Moon “, IHT, 18-19 July 2009). Prof Bignami’s...
View ArticleFour (New) Faces Of Buzz Aldrin
from the Sueddeutsche Zeitung's weekly magazine. Picture quality deliberately reduced. Here’s four sides of Buzz Aldrin one seldom sees in the news: … Continue reading →
View ArticleGoing Back To the Moon: The Simplest Argument
It’s going to be far simpler to explore the Solar System with humans (and with robots) by starting from the Moon. What is in fact at present the minimum requirement to reach orbit? On Earth: Atlas...
View ArticleUnimpressed By Ares 1-X
What about the Ares 1-X launch? What we have seen is the 480M$ demonstration that a Space Shuttle’s Solid Rocket Booster can fly on its own. A step towards a Moon mission dream? Methinks not. It’d be...
View ArticleA Wonderful Place To Die
It is called “Mars to Stay” and I hope it will involve a 85-year-yound Italian in 2052 going to Heaven but first stopping for around 30 years on the Red Planet. For the final resting place I select...
View ArticleSpace Sociology: 10 Out Of 10 For Courage, Minus 1million For Pessimism
The events at the British Interplanetary Society headquarters in London are often very interesting, at times packed and seldom soporous: but I cannot recall of any, where the speakers would more or...
View ArticleMy Podcast At “365 Days of Astronomy”– Moon Colonies
My first ever podcast, entitled “Moon Colonies”, is now available at “365 Days of Astronomy” for January 23, 2011. The 10-min MP3 audio recording is at this link (including the shortest guitar solo in...
View ArticleSaturn
As microblogged live on my (other) Twitter account, @mmorabito67 on May 25, 2011: At the BIS British Interplanetary Society in London for Alan Lawrie’s SaturnV presentation. live microblogging 6pm GMT...
View ArticleThe International Herald Tribune Fails Neil Armstrong
From: Maurizio To: Letters IHT Date: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 6:56 PM Hi As a long-time subscriber [...] I was looking forward for today’s (27/8) newspaper, but obviously got the wrong one. You see, the...
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