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June 11, 2018

Saving the World Is Educational

June 11, 2018/ Jay Heinrichs
Saving the World Is Educational

The Apollo program inspired students to go into science, technology, engineering and math. Today, most STEM Ph.D.'s in America get awarded to foreign students.

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STEM
space, STEM
June 10, 2018

How to Love the Future

June 10, 2018/ Jay Heinrichs

The Hartford Courant just published our piece about finding the future in space--with a Connecticut angle.

http://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-sandford-ct-high-tech-future-20180604-story.html

 

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June 08, 2018

A Good Reason for Funding Space: We're All Going to Die

June 08, 2018/ Jay Heinrichs
A Good Reason for Funding Space: We're All Going to Die

Cheer up! There are plenty of ways to destroy humanity; and plenty of ways to save ourselves. Most of the solutions involve space.

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NASA
Space, space policy
June 04, 2018

What Will It Really Take to Get to Mars?

June 04, 2018/ Jay Heinrichs
What Will It Really Take to Get to Mars?

Obama wants us to go to Mars. But these days we seem more interested in watching Matt Damon in space than in funding space.

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June 01, 2018

What Satellites Buy

June 01, 2018/ Jay Heinrichs
What Satellites Buy

For one thing, satellites generate weather prediction worth $11 billion a year. That's equal to two thirds  NASA's budget.

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Economy, Knowledge ore, Spinoffs
Space, space economy
May 28, 2018

The Phlebotemouse

May 28, 2018/ Jay Heinrichs
The Phlebotemouse

One great example of the knowledge ore--information that private companies mine to produce new products--is a device that can revolutionize drug delivery.

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Economy, Knowledge ore, Spinoffs
Space, space economy
May 25, 2018

The Knowledge Ore

May 25, 2018/ Jay Heinrichs
The Knowledge Ore

Is the Gravity Well worth the cost? To answer that question, we need to look at one of its least understood benefits.

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Economy, Gravity Well, Knowledge ore
Space, space economy, Gravity Well
May 21, 2018

Our Early Escape

May 21, 2018/ Jay Heinrichs
Our Early Escape

What took Europeans centuries, we can achieve within the lifetime of some readers: an unprecedented economy in a new frontier.

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Economy, Gravity Well
Space, Space policy
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What's Weather Prediction Worth?
What's Weather Prediction Worth?
about 3 years ago

One aspect of the space economy tends to get overlooked: weather. Without space, we'd be in trouble.

Orbital Rush Hour
Orbital Rush Hour
about 3 years ago

It really wasn’t that long ago when the two greatest superpowers were vying to put satellites into space. Now, 50 nations have their own satellites in low Earth orbit. If you’re a Thailand, say, you can call Space Systems/Loral, a Canadian-owned company based in Palo Alto, California, and tell them you want to put a satellite into geostationary orbit for television broadcasting or military communications. You can have the thing in orbit 25,000 miles above Earth within two years. 

Missing: Audacity
Missing: Audacity
about 3 years ago

The good news: current leadership is working on renewing NASA.

The bad news: they’re working without the audacious national mission we need. It’s as if NASA is a boxer training without any fight scheduled.

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