All Astronautical Evolution posts in 2016:
Elon Musk and Mars: Looking for a Snowball Effect (Oct.)
The Citizens’ Debate on Space for Europe (Sept.)
Creating a self-sustaining desert civilisation: Aridopolis (Aug.)
Lecture by Professor Wörner: United Space in Europe (July)
Brexit! Thoughts on the UK Referendum Result (July)
The Pillar versus the Pyramid (June)
The Way Forward (May)
Manned Spaceflight Statistics (April)
When Will Jan Wörner Get His Moon Village? (March)
Interstellar Travel and Straw Men (Jan.)
A Strategic Goal for Humanity on Earth and in Space in 2061 (Jan.)
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Britain Takes the Wrong Approach to Manned Spaceflight (Dec.)
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2022: What’s to do on Mars?…
2021: New space company Planetopolis…
2020: Cruising in Space…
2019: The Doomsday Fallacy, SpaceX successes…
2018: I, Starship, atheism versus religion, the Copernican principle…
2017: Mars, Supercivilisations, METI…
2016: Stragegic goal for manned spaceflight…
2015: The Pluto Controversy, Mars, SETI…
2014: Skylon, the Great Space Debate, exponential growth, the Fermi “paradox”…
2013: Manned spaceflight, sustainability, the Singularity, Voyager 1, philosophy, ET…
2012: Bulgakov vs. Clarke, starships, the Doomsday Argument…
2011: Manned spaceflight, evolution, worldships, battle for the future…
2010: Views on progress, the Great Sociology Dust-Up…
General essays:
Index to essays – including:
Talk presented to students at the International Space University, May 2016
Basic concepts of Astronautical Evolution
Options for Growth and Sustainability
Mars on the Interstellar Roadmap (2015)
The Great Sociology Debate (2011)
Building Selenopolis (2008)
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A Strategic Goal for Humanity on Earth and in Space in 2061
What should we be telling our schoolchildren during and after Tim Peake’s flight to the ISS?
In my previous post I was critical of the UK space strategy’s focus on Tim Peake’s mission to the ISS. But what should we offer in its place?
It’s time to stop being timid about what spaceflight means for the human future. Any strategy needs a well-defined goal in order to draw up an efficient plan of work towards that goal. So let us state where we could be in 2061, the centenary of Yuri Gagarin’s first flight into space, if we address the question of our legacy to future generations with the robustness it deserves.
In 2061, just 45 years in the future and within the working lifetime of today’s schoolchildren and university students…
You can help to build this future!
I challenge astronaut Tim Peake and the UK Space Agency to endorse this view of our future prospects, or else to produce a better one!
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