by worldwalker1967 | Nov 4, 2014 | Age of Discovery, Antares, cosmology, International Space Station, NASA, Orbital Sciences Corp., Richard Branson, space, space travel, SpaceShipTwo, Tragedy, Virgin Galactic, W.L. Hoffman
As I continue to scan news coverage of the recent commercial spacecraft explosions – Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo prototype and Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket mission to the International Space Station – I am trying to process our current societal incarnation...
by worldwalker1967 | Jun 12, 2013 | 1984, Asteroid, China, Chris Hadfield, cosmology, David Bowie, Extinction, Fantasy & Sci-fi, Gamma-Ray, Human Extinction, Idiocracy, ISS, NASA, Neil Armstrong, one small step, sci-fi, science fiction, Soulstealer War Blog, Space Colonization, Space Oddity, Tiangong, W.L. Hoffman
Absent extraterrestrials accelerating our learning curve by letting us ride their alien coattails as Space-faring vagabonds, humanity’s future rests with colonizing the final frontier. The hazards of this gamble will be severe. We may even splinter into multiple...