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This is cool…   Reader Chris Hibbert has pointed me to a Wikipedia page I didn’t know about, one summarizing the various Space Elevator competitions that have been held world-wide over the past several years.  Based on translations obtained via Chrome, he has updated much of the information on the Japanese… Read more“Space Elevator Competitions”

Landing on the Moon by 2024 won’t be easy, but it’s not impossible. That’s an important distinction. It’s important to step back and recognize that the president of the United States stated that NASA should “use any means necessary” to achieve a rapid goal of returning to the Moon. This… Read more“To the Moon”

Another picture of a potential space elevator disaster has shown up. Admittedly, this picture of something (meteor, space debris, whatever) striking the space elevator is pretty cool but the ever increasing accuracy of tracking larger sized pieces of space debris should make this a pretty unlikely scenario… I found the… Read more“Space Elevator disasters are SO photogenic…”

The Timeline Five years is not a lot of time. When John F. Kennedy called for the nation to land a man on the Moon and return him safely to the Earth, his advisers recommended a timeline of “before the decade is out” in order to give NASA some additional… Read more“Reasons to be Skeptical”

Welcome to this edition of Weekend Walkabout.  In this post, we visit India Thailand to see a ‘possible competitor’ to a space elevator, then journey to Japan to see the latest with our favorite anime series, Gundam, and then wind up in what can only be described as “Fantasy Land”. … Read more“Weekend Walkabout – Thailand to Japan to Fantasy Land…”