Space R&D: Presentations
Lunar Commercial Communications: Catalyzing a New Industry
An assessment of the challenges and opportunities for commercial communications technology and services applications to the Earth-Lunar system.
Commencing Lunar Commercial Communications (LCC - Workshop)
A Sept 2008 update on entrepreneurial space evolution and especially the new commercial R&D and payloads focused on lunar communication systems.
Obama-Biden Space Policy Analysis
This presentation developed by the Strategic Space Development company covers the “Obama Administration’s Impact on Space Policy” beginning with the campaign and extending just after the election on 5 Nov ’08 when it was written. It covers civil, military and commercial space and focuses on the proposed increasing integration of these sectors and cross-government collaboration. Commercial space comes out looking strong in this analysis.
Paths to Space Settlement: Space Tourism, Space Solar Power, Planetary Defense
Globus presented this at the Aerospace Technology Working Group that met at NASA ARC, Dec. ’08. Among many other things, he is a master of the short pithy statement. One that he made recently (below) in an email provides insight into the role that the Russian and US space agencies played in catalyzing space tourism.
“The International Space Station’s (ISS) most important legacy may be jump-starting space tourism. Consider: the first space tourist, Dennis Tito, was supposed to go to the Soviet era Mir space station. Under pressure from NASA, Russia de-orbited the Mir which resulted in Mr. Tito going to the ISS instead. Now the Mir was a terrific space station, but by the time of Tito’s trip it was also old, smelly, crowded and probably not all that nice. The ISS was brand new, shiny, much more roomy, etc. Mr. Tito came back to Earth with glowing accounts of how great space is. Would his experience have been as good on Mir?”