May 21, 2006

Setting our sites on new worlds - and MAKING THEM!
(click for podcast version)


http://www.l5news.org

http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/

Space Settlements

spreading life throughout the solar system

Horizons! Gone, but not forgotten! A dream of the future, now gone, that lived in Epcot from 1983-1999.

http://www.horizons1.com






To ride Horizons again - watch this video

Take a journey back in time and ride Horizons (14:52)
http://intercot.com/themeparks/epcot/futureworld/horizons/default.asp

The Language of space: From Stargazers to Starships

Astronomy of the Earth's motion in space.

Newtonian mechanics.

The Sun

Spaceflight and spacecraft

and .... A word of caution!

Here's the language part: http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Sgloss.htm

Mission Space

A few good words:

http://www.spacequotes.com/

Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that new ideas pass through three periods:

• "It can't be done."
• "It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing."
• "I knew it was a good idea all along!"

And the good Doctor Asimov says a few things, too:

Our Future in the Cosmos--Space