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NASA 2005 Operating Plan and Proposed Budget

January 10, 2005

Are you curious about precisely how NASA proposes to spend the $16.2 billion it requested from Congress? Space News has obtained a copy of the 2005 operating plan.
Among the space resources highlights, the operating plan repairs a deep cut Congress made in the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter program, putting $52 million into a mission that Congress [...]

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Investing in Space

January 10, 2005

As discussion of space investing hits the mainstream, the Motley Fool picks space commercialization as one of its five disruptive innovations for 2005.
The companies that author Tim Beyers discusses are mostly focused on the space tourism market (in fact, Beyers seems a little unclear at times whether he is discussing space tourism or space commercialization [...]

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Book Review: Moonrush

January 7, 2005

Moonrush: Improving Life on Earth with the Moon’s Resources
By Dennis Wingo
Apogee Books, 2004
Softcover, 260pp., illustrated
ISBN 1-894959-10-8
US$24.95/C$30.95
Serious books about space resources development are rare. Still rarer are those with the potential to shift our thinking about the potential role of space resources in our economy. When one starts to think about space resources books, three by [...]

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Space Resources Roundtable Round-Up

January 4, 2005

Dr. Jeffrey Taylor at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics & Planetology has put together a great overview of the sixth Space Resources Roundtable held at the Colorado School of Mines in November. The presentations are now available online. This collection of presentations makes fascinating reading for anyone interested in learning more about the latest developments [...]

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Alt.space Timeline

January 4, 2005

Many observers and industry participants believe that 2004 was a breakthrough year for private space development and the alternative space (”alt.space”) movement. At HobbySpace, Clark Lindsey has put together a great timeline that lists some of the most significant developments in the alternative space development movement during 2004.
Meanwhile, Alan Boyle at MSNBC provides a summary [...]

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Near-Earth Objects

January 3, 2005

Last week was a big week for the many communities concerned with Near-Earth Objects (NEOs). The discovery of the Near-Earth Asteroid 2004 MN4 and the initial estimate that there was a 1-in-300 chance that the 400-meter-diameter object might hit the Earth on April 13, 2029, raised considerable alarm and discussion. Subsequent discovery of an earlier [...]

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Welcome to Space Resources

January 3, 2005

[Editor's Note: As part of my effort to archive writing from several previous blogs, I've included all of my posts from the Space Resources blog that appeared at GerlachSpace.com (no longer active). This is the first of the posts from that blog which I only updated through the middle of 2005.]
Welcome to Space Resources, a [...]

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