How We Go to Mars, op ed, Rick Tumlinson, Space News “So what do we do? As many of these approaches are viable, we must go back to the Why? to begin culling out the dead ends. Since a notable group of space leaders at the 2015 Pioneering Space Summit agreed settlement is the goal and science is something you get if you do settlement (the reverse does not apply), […]

Keith’s note: Wow, the space advocacy community has been rather fertile this past week spawning not one but two new organizations – all of this on the heels of a anonymous meeting of the usual space advocacy suspects. This newest anonymous group is called “Pioneering Space Declaration” (spacedeclaration.org). No press release has been issued. Instead this group just appeared out of nowhere. It seems to have been spawned by Rick […]

Keith’s note: Something has emerged from the Pioneering Space National Summit held last week in Washington DC on Facebook (larger view) The event barred press coverage and did not include a number of space advocacy organizations – including the Planetary Society. The organizers are now playing favorites with some media outlets but not others. At one point, the leader of this activity, Rick Tumlinson, posted the following on his Facebook […]

Why Space?, Rick Tumlinson, Huffington Post “To some of us who have the frontier calling, there is no question “Why space?” It makes no sense. We look out and know that out there are more galaxies than there are all the grains of sand on all the beaches and in all the deserts of the world and in each of those a million times a million suns, around which swirl […]