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| Written by Jeff Krukin | |
| Saturday, 03 November 2007 | |
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I recently returned from the International Symposium on Personal Spaceflight in Las Cruces, New Mexico... certainly one of the homes of the emerging commercial Newspace industry. Once again it was a pleasure to hear Michael Simpson, President of the International Space University in Strasbourg, France, who gave one of the opening talks. Michael is always eloquent and worth hearing, but he out did himself this time (not easy to do!) with a high level of energy. While considering humanity's first fifty years in space, he defined that era as learning to put human beings in space and return them to Earth. With this as prologue, Michael suggested the second fifty years will be about putting human society in space. Absolutely! As I've written elsewhere, it's no longer (and never really was) sufficient to explore space only for the sake of science or national prestige. It must always be about developing economically sustainable and therefore permanent human settlements throughout the Solar System, beginning with the Moon and asteroids. In other words, it's about sending people into space and leaving them there. |
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