How Will We Train The Artemis Generation – Globally?
Keith’s note: How are we going to train the Artemis Generation for the worlds that they will one day explore? Not just people in the U.S. – but everywhere on Earth where an aspiring space scientist/engineer/explorer is looking for their chance to join in on this adventure? On NASA TV yesterday some NASA folks checked the OSIRIS-REx SRC at its landing site in a remote desert for damage and moved it to a lab – just like a Star Trek Away Team might do. Where do you go to learn how to do field excursions like this? Think about it. There are thousands of locations on Earth that are analogs for the extraterrestrial environments that we might encounter with our droids and/or ourselves. What would it take to have an analog exploration program in every nation? Dylan Taylor and I put some thoughts together here on how to start to address this: “Why The Space Industry Needs A Space College“. More info on the concept can be found here. As the JPLers say ‘Dare Mighty Things’.
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Wjen I was growing up in the 1960s, NASA generated and published some very educational material about space missions, vehicles, etc. It got me interested, enthused, and taught me scientific and engineering principles. Today NASA tries to teach basic STEM content. Its very nice but not a substitute for science class, and usually doesnt teach anything about space. NASA has lost their way. They no longer seem to understand their role.
Fifty-one years after the last Apollo landing, and more until Artemis III, it can certainly be said “quo vadis”, where are we going as well as where in the heck have we been all this time as we talked about Mars but didn’t even do the due diligence for the Moon? Perhaps we need the perspective that we are all astronauts on spaceship Earth and need to do all the “analog” training here at home to prepare for truly exploring and inhabiting the Moon, as well as for going through Eliot’s “old remembered gate” to understand and protect our own fragile spacecraft, the Earth. So all colleges become space colleges.
Though I did not follow.all of your logic, I have to agree with your final statement. As space becomes a more important destination, as industry in space becomes important, as the space economy grows and one day overtakes Earth’s, all colleges will become space colleges. It will become ever more important to teach all the space related subjects in all schools.
In many respects, ISU is symptomatic of the funk spaceflight has been in for the last 50 years. Why should just an elite select few be permitted to hobknob with other of like means and persuasion? Its self-defeating. Let’s spread the wealth. Our goal is to train all the citizenry. Pretty soon they’ll all be demanding a place in space.