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Commentary: Forty-Five Years After Apollo 11—An Inspiration For the Future, or Just Another Anniversary (Part 3)

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Commentary: Forty-Five Years After Apollo 11—An Inspiration For the Future, or Just Another Anniversary? (Part 2)
“What was it we were really celebrating? Three men who had done what no man before had done? A technological feat which was believed to be beyond the realm of possibility? The fulfilment of an age-old dream? Were we celebrating simply because there had been a long time since we’ve had anything to celebrate? Or […] More
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by Leonidas Papadopoulos July 19, 2014, 4:25 am
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Commentary: Forty-Five Years After Apollo 11—An Inspiration For the Future, or Just Another Anniversary? (Part 1)
“We are not made wise by the recollections of the past, but by our responsibility for the future.” — George Bernard Shaw The date is 16 July 2014 and the preparations for the celebration of the upcoming Apollo 11 anniversary are in full swing on NASA’s Moon base Artemis, as well as on the various […] More
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by Leonidas Papadopoulos July 15, 2014, 6:37 am
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in Politics, NASA, Constellation, Spaceflight, Space, Congress, Obama, Opinion, International Space Station, Commercial Crew Development Program, Commercial Orbital Transportation Services, astronaut

Commentary: A Path to Nowhere and the Absence of Leadership (Part 2)
Last week’s article had focused on examining some of the events and political decisions that have resulted in the U.S.’s reliance on Russia for gaining access to the International Space Station—a topic that came into the spotlight in the aftermath of the recent geopolitical crisis between Russia and Ukraine. Today’s article focuses on some of […] More
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by Leonidas Papadopoulos April 16, 2014, 12:52 am
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in Politics, NASA, Constellation, Spaceflight, Space, Congress, Obama, Opinion, International Space Station, Commercial Crew Development Program, astronaut

Commentary: A Path to Nowhere and the Absence of Leadership (Part 1)
The recent geopolitical tensions resulting from the ongoing crisis between Russia and Ukraine have indirectly helped to reveal in a sobering fashion one of the major problems that has been plaguing the U.S. public space program for many years: the overall lack of foresight and national leadership. More
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by Leonidas Papadopoulos April 12, 2014, 5:00 pm
in NASA, Space, Opinion, International Space Station, Space Exploration, Exploration, space stations

Opinion: Star of Peace Rising: The ISS as a Nominee for 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
“All these worlds are yours… Use them together, use them in peace” — “2010: The Year We Make Contact” (1984) In the fictional universe of “2010,” a Jupiter-bound joint U.S.-Soviet crew finds itself trapped in a gridlock, as a result of the escalating geopolitical tensions back on Earth between the two superpowers. In the real […] More
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by Leonidas Papadopoulos March 26, 2014, 12:01 pm
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in NASA, Ares, Constellation, AmericaSpace, Commercial, Shuttle, Mars, Space, HLV, Heavy Lift Vehicle, Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, Space Tourism, Opinion, Mars Science Laboratory, Mars Exploration Rovers, International Space Station, Falcon 9, Mars Phoenix Lander, Commercial Crew Development Program, Commercial Orbital Transportation Services, suborbital, Vision for Space Exploration, Commercial Space

Opinion: Which Way Toward the Red Planet? Current Plans for Mars Colonisation and the Need for Maturity
“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” — Niels Bohr The last 10 years can be described as a the “decade of Mars” in space exploration, with a plethora of orbital and rover missions being sent toward the Red Planet on a continuing basis. It is an often repeated statement that […] More
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by Leonidas Papadopoulos February 11, 2014, 11:48 pm
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Opinion: Awakening the Sleeping Satellite—The Value of Human Lunar Exploration
I blame you for the moonlit nights when I wonder why are the seas still dry? don’t blame this sleeping satellite — Tasmin Archer, “Sleeping Satellite” (1992) Perfectly capturing the spirit and vision of the Apollo generation, British pop singer/songwriter Tasmin Archer lamented in her seminal song, “Sleeping Satellite,” humanity’s abandonment of the dream of […] More
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by Leonidas Papadopoulos February 6, 2014, 11:30 pm
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Opinion: Beyonce and the Use of Challenger Accident Audio Sample Indicative of Failings of Contemporary Pop Culture

The history of art as a form of human expression is full of provocative moments, with many instances of an artist’s work challenging the morals and views of the times. Indeed, there hasn’t been a time in human history when artistic expression hasn’t been received as an insult to the sensibilities of at least part […] More

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by Leonidas Papadopoulos January 2, 2014, 11:20 am
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Opinion: Space Settlement and the Preservation of Pristine Environments—Two Mutually Exclusive Concepts?
If we are to believe certain narrow-minded people — and what else can we call them? — humanity is confined within a circle of Popilius from which there is no escape, condemned to vegetate upon this globe, never able to venture into interplanetary space! That’s not so! We are going to the moon, we shall […] More
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by Leonidas Papadopoulos December 30, 2013, 11:00 am
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Opinion: To Explore Is to Live, Is to Remain Human
Video Credit: Reid Gower As I stand out here in the wonders of the unknown at Hadley, I sort of realize there’s a fundamental truth to our nature, Man must explore . . . and this is exploration at its greatest. — Dave Scott, while standing on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission, […] More
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by Leonidas Papadopoulos November 25, 2013, 4:00 am
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On @ The 90: Our Vanguard Moment
The Space Race, one of many fronts of the Cold War, began in earnest on July 29, 1955, when President Eisenhower publicly announced Project Vanguard, the first genuine effort to launch a man-made vehicle into orbit as an instrumented scientific experiment for the International Geophysical Year. Bypassing Werner Von Braun’s more proven Army ballistic missile, […] More
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by Nelson Bridwell September 1, 2013, 7:00 pm
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‘Nostalgia for an Age Yet to Come’: Reflections on Astronaut Scholarship Foundation’s Skylab 40th Anniversary Celebration
In an episode of Mad Men entitled “The Wheel,” the show’s protagonist, Don Draper, intoned while pitching an ad campaign for a Kodak Carousel slide projector, “Nostalgia—it’s delicate, but potent … Greek, ‘nostalgia’ literally means ‘the pain from an old wound.’ It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone … It […] More
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by Emily Carney July 30, 2013, 8:00 am

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