Webinar on space awareness, hosted by Space Renaissance India

More than 50 participants attended to a webinar on the theme of space awareness, held Sunday June 21st 2020, by the Space Renaissance International Indian Chapter.
Bharathi Sharma and Sachika Bhatia made many sharp questions to Adriano Autino (SRI President) and Michael Clanton (SR Academy Chair), about the history and the goals of the Space Renaissance Initiative, lasting since 2008.

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Is the surface of a planet really the right place for an expanding technological civilization?

Is the surface of a planet really the right place for an expanding technological civilization? by A. V. Autino While recovering the materials of the old Technologies of the Frontier website (destroyed by hackers few years ago), I came across this document: an interview by Stewart Brand’s with Gerard O’Neill, made in July 1975. In

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SRI’S PROGRAM IS NOW URGENT, IN ORDER TO END THE POST-LOCKDOWN RECESSION

SRI’S PROGRAM IS NOW URGENT, IN ORDER TO END THE POST-LOCKDOWN RECESSION Abstract This article discusses the urgency to start developing reusable passenger-carrying space-vehicles. Growth is necessary for quality of life, and no more growth will be possible without free space travel. Creation of new business activities is necessary, and lack of new industries is

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THE LUNAR EXPLOITATION INDUSTRY COULD TAKE OFF WITH SOME MORE GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

THE LUNAR EXPLOITATION INDUSTRY COULD TAKE OFF WITH SOME MORE GOVERNMENT SUPPORT  by Giulio Prisco In my last SpaceNews Op-Ed I argued that we should build a sustainable presence on the Moon before moving on to Mars and beyond. I stated that promising business cases for returning to and start exploiting the Moon, with reasonable

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DREAMER OR DOER?

SRI Newsletter #0004 – April 27 2020 DREAMER OR DOER? Do you dream of walking on the Moon or Mars? Do you read everything you can on space and space tech? Do you recognize that you are different from most people? Do you enjoy learning about math and how the world works? Do you have

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THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS “SOLVING OUR PROBLEMS ON EARTH BEFORE GOING TO SPACE”

The COVID19 global crisis is dramatically real. All of our old diatribes are bullshit, now. But different communities will try to use the crisis to confirm their ideologies, and use it to claim a confirmation of their recipes for “saving the planet”. Radical ecologists will argue that humanity has abused the resources of this planet,

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We’re almost eight billion, nobody can stop us!

Key concepts: Why are governments useful in times of big crisis? Because they can recover the economy, printing currency, supporting stock markets after catastrophic events, such as pandemics. The extraordinary growth of our civilization in this closed world has reached the limit. The closed world syndrome puts civilization at risk, with many threats such as

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