Over forty years ago Man landed on the Moon, walked around a bit, got bored, and came home. What happened? What is happening? Why are there no Mars bases and asteroid mines? Why is it so damn hard to get there? What going on at NASA? What the heck is JAXA? Who are the key players? What missions are flying right now? And what is this Newspace thing I keep hearing about? This talk will bring you up to speed on just what is going on in that final-est of frontiers.
More from BIL 2011
- "A Thousand Words" — Steve Payne
- "Cyborg: Space, Kybernetes, Ship, Man, State, Art, Craft" — Ross Bochnek
- "The Needle in the Haystack" — Paul Bohm
- 3D Computer Vision & the Kinect — Matt Bell
More on Science & Space
- (Underwater) Citizen Science — Kachina Gosselin ▶ video
- A New Volumetric Eye: Light Field Microscopy — Todd Anderson
- An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything — Garrett Lisi
- Anti-Aging Bioscience Research — Aubrey de Grey ▶ video