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“He noted that space exploration had a benefit beyond dollars and cents, and pointed to the example of his own children. Muilenburg said his daughter was thrilled to try on a Boeing Starliner spacesuit during a recent family visit to Florida, while his son was entranced by the work being done on SLS.
“The inspiration quotient is very high,” Muilenburg said.”
https://www.facebook.com/NowScienceNews/photos/a.255576118192463.1073741828.250707748679300/431936273889779/?type=3&theater
A new paper from Elon Musk (written before the Falcon Heavy launch, but published this month) with lots of detail on the BFR.
“Our updated design leverages a smaller vehicle, still pretty big but a single vehicle that can do everything that’s needed for greater Earth orbit activity. Essentially we want to make our current vehicles redundant. We want to have one system—one booster and one ship—that replaces Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy and Dragon. If we can do that, then all the resources that are used for Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy and Dragon can be applied to this system.”
Life on Mars will be a positive sum game.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BgTIh8Mg8R2/
“If you have it in your power to do something great and important and wonderful then you should.” (at 3:08)
“We’re talking about an insurance policy—a backup plan in case something does happen to the Earth. I once talked to Carl Sagan about this, who said, “We live in the middle of a shooting gallery with thousands of asteroids in our path that we haven’t even discovered yet. So, let’s be at least a two-planet species, as a backup plan.””
Not directly relevant to Mars or children’s books about Mars, but this got me staring at the wall and thinking for a while.
In all likelihood, the shortest psst’s never got off their planet.
“If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.” — Elon Musk
Me too.
(The link should take you to 34:43 in the video. If it doesn’t, skip to there.)
