Category Archives: Space
Why Now?
On to the Stars — FastForward Radio
This week NASA announced that the Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, may soon reach interstellar space — if it has not done so already. Let the star age begin! Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon discuss the significance of this milestone and explore how and when humanity might truly begin to venture to the […]
Enterprise in 30 Years?
Very ambitious! An engineer says we could have a working starship Enterprise within the next 30 years. One teeny-tiny drawback: this would not actually be a starship: This “Gen1” Enterprise could get to Mars in ninety days, to the Moon in three, and “could hop from planet to planet dropping off robotic probes of all sorts […]
Abundance, Dematerialization, and Newt — FastForward Radio
Phil and Stephen welcome presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to FFR to discuss how energy and space policy factor into our national dialog about the future. Plus, we continue our discussion of Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler’s new book, Abundance: The Future Is Better Than Yout Think, which argues that we […]
Let’s Talk Moon Colony — FastForward Radio
Let's Talk Moon Colony — FastForward Radio
The Atlantis has Launched… What's Next?
The final Space Shuttle launch yesterday was bittersweet. The Shuttle was the workhorse that gave us the International Space Station and an operational Hubble Space Telescope. But the Shuttle failed miserably in the goal of making spaceflight routine and cheap. And, tragically, the shuttle did not prove to be as safe as hoped. 355 […]
World's First Trillionaires Will Make their Fortunes in Space
Interesting argument. Peter Diamandis says that that there are “twenty trillion-dollar checks up there, waiting to be cashed,” referring to the near-earth asteroids. Diamandis, of course, is founder of the X Prize Foundation. He thinks the privatization of space travel is about to open up something of a gold rush. Diamandis sees a promising price improvement […]
World’s First Trillionaires Will Make their Fortunes in Space
Interesting argument. Peter Diamandis says that that there are “twenty trillion-dollar checks up there, waiting to be cashed,” referring to the near-earth asteroids. Diamandis, of course, is founder of the X Prize Foundation. He thinks the privatization of space travel is about to open up something of a gold rush. Diamandis sees a promising price improvement […]