Be sure to check our their amazing gallery and the 3D interactive view of the satellite.
Follow the mission on Twitter at …
]]>Be sure to check our their amazing gallery and the 3D interactive view of the satellite.
Follow the mission on Twitter at : @NASA_SDO
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These 4 people are some of the true leaders in …
]]>These 4 people are some of the true leaders in Space exploration.
We chat about SpaceUp DC, Washington DC’s first Space Unconference. Every person on the show has a project that either got started at SpaceUp or got a kick in the pants because of it.
The SpaceUp DC wiki is a living document where we’ve tried to capture what happened, and what will happen. The links to all of the Spacevidcast recordings are all there.
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The reason I always looked forward to seeing Phil on the show was not necessarily his lifestyle choice but his colloquialisms. Phil never beat around the bush with his words.
“You can watch things happen, you can make things happen, or you can wonder what the $*@& happened” – Phil Harris
When I ask people how they feel about Space exploration, most people wonder what the $*@& happened. Advocates have a look in their eyes like they are fighting a fight they don’t believe they can win. People on the street have completely forgotten about exploring altogether.
Back in February, Chris Radcliff, the founder of SpaceUp, asked me to do a SpaceUp in DC. SpaceUp DC is an Unconference. Sometimes also called a Foocamp or Barcamp. The Unconference format is very popular, and we had just finished the first SpaceUp in San Diego with great success. I said “what the hell” and jumped into it.
The hardest part about doing an Unconference is helping people understand what an Unconference IS. Unconferences started in the technology community where change happens very fast. The technologies and methodologies those people use to do their work now probably wont even exist in 10 years. Those who are in these fields are used to change and readily embrace the idea of new things.
This isn’t the case in the Space Industry, and I knew that this was going to be a challenge when I took it on. The Space Industry of today is cautious and conservative. Change is feared, not embraced.
This cautious culture is WHY most people wonder what the $*@& happened. And funding, politics, rules, corporate junk, and a whole other list of excuses can be thrown in too.
Why are you sitting and watching this happen?
What? Give me a break. You ARE sitting and watching it happen. Don’t kid yourself.
We have a chance to do something different. The future we all want is ours to create. It’s not someone else’s thing to do.
You can watch, or you can do. Those are your only choices.
Unconferences are about doing. You’re not an passive member of the audience. Unconferences aren’t just about participating in conversations. They are about creating the conversations and the things worth talking about. Unconferences are about solving problems. We create our future rather than watch it happen.
Being at an Unconference where these things happen is HARD. Unlike other conferences you’ve been to, you can’t really sit in the back and hide.
It doesn’t matter if you haven’t been to one and you don’t know how it works. Or that you might not do it right. Or that people wont like your idea. Or that you’re not comfortable in social situations. Or that your boss doesn’t want to give you the time off. Or whatever pansy excuse you’re about to tell yourself.
Stop being a baby.
Our time to create the pages in the history books is RIGHT NOW. Are you going to be happy with what is written in them?
Everyone (on our team) is more focused on finding a solution than talking about the problem. Which is absolutely great, I love it. – Robert Boehme
As always, they are inspiring and interesting. You can follow them on their website and on twitter (@PTScientists).
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Bobby works for Draper, a partner to the team on their …
]]>Bobby works for Draper, a partner to the team on their hopper.
They work with MIT on the effort; both undergrad and grad students are working on the program, and the grad students recently won the 2010 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) contest, which was sponsored by NASA and looked for student ideas that can directly assist NASA with missions to the Moon and Mars.
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You can follow them and all of the amazing things they are doing at part-time-scientists.com
BTW, their current Facebook status is “With …
]]>You can follow them and all of the amazing things they are doing at part-time-scientists.com
BTW, their current Facebook status is “With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.”
Plus they have the coolest T-Shirts ever:
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It’s kind of a crazy idea isn’t it?
It would be an interesting exercise to remove the boundaries that we unconsciously place on ourselves because …
]]>It’s kind of a crazy idea isn’t it?
It would be an interesting exercise to remove the boundaries that we unconsciously place on ourselves because we feel like we have to operate within the current environment. It seems too often that we focus on job retention or job creation and not enough about what it looks like long-term to operate a space faring civilization.
We end up with no direction at all, and it’s too easy without direction to end up with empty rhetoric. The empty rhetoric hall of shame is where movements go to be stripped of their ability to inspire people to do great things.
How do we move from empty rhetoric to execution?
What happens when you move from a focus on job creation and short-term thinking to a focus on broad scope and long-term thinking? How do you do this while navigating the present?
When looking for what will happen in the future, visionary Tim O’Reilly often says:
Watch the alpha geeks on the edges. Who are those people and what are they up to?
In space exploration who are the alpha geeks? Who are the people on the fringes? What are they doing and how can we help them?
As an exercise I want to start talking about what our space program looks like if you remove our current boundaries. Just think free-form without the constraints. What does it look like in 150 years?
150 years is long-term vision.
150 years is thinking big.
Most of you will say thinking for 150 years is impossible, but this is exactly what the alpha geeks are doing.
Just try it. Fit your entire thinking about space exploration into this:
Exploration -> Discovery -> Inspiration
Now tell us about it.
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From the site:
Scott Drizhal, is chosen to go on a solo, 3 year mission to Mars as part of a reality series. Unfortunately the show is canceled and Scott is now stuck on a round-trip ticket to Mars and back. With no company in deep space other than a smart-ass, artificially-intelligent ship computer (PHAL), his wife declaring him legally dead so she can claim the millions in insurance, a Napoleonic producer whose hubris lands him and the show into Japanese mafia infested waters and a malfunctioning, prototype ship that was never meant to fly to Mars… Hilarity ensues.
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