From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Mon Jul 26 2004 - 13:57:39 PDT
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:20:22 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
From: DwayneDay <zirconic1_at_earthlink.net<mailto:zirconic1_at_earthlink.net>>
Subject: [FPSPACE] Carl Sagan, we need your help
To: fpspace <fpspace_at_friends-partners.org<mailto:fpspace_at_friends-partners.org>>
Here I am plugging The Space Review again. Jeff Foust's on-line space journal always has interesting and thought-provoking articles every Monday morning. This week is no exception. This week he has a discussion of the current status of the Vision for Space Exploration, an article on how the media uses commercial remote sensing imagery, and two articles on applying private property rules and free enterprise to space exploration.
www.thespacereview.com<http://www.thespacereview.com/>
I also have a somewhat wistful article on how the space community could really use another Carl Sagan:
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/192/1 Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
Monday, July 26, 2004
"Carl Sagan died in December 1996 and the world has been a sadder place without him. No matter what you thought about his politics, you have to admit that Sagan was the closest thing the space community has had to a philosopher poet. We could sure use his help right now.
Space exploration, true space exploration, defined as going new places and learning new things, has been on a spectacular roll lately. The two Mars rovers are creaky but still crawling across the surface of the Red Planet. Cassini is dodging the rings and moons of Saturn. A spacecraft with the inventive acronym of MESSENGER is getting ready to fly off to Mercury. And thats not to mention the several orbiters, American and European, currently circling Mars. Unfortunately, the human projects are in worse shape. The shuttle is still grounded, the International Space Station is still years away from completion, and the bold new space exploration Vision is mired in the drudgery of budget politics. But wondrous things are happening way out there in the deep cold black of outer space and we do not have anybody to turn the science into poetry."
The article mentions a few of the current spokespersons who get on television a lot: Steve Squyres, Bob Zubrin, and Neil deGrasse Tyson.
(For those who don't know, Joe DiMaggio was a famous and highly-respected baseball player. Simon and Garfunkle in their song "Mrs. Robinson" lament that the nation is searching for another hero like DiMaggio.)
DDAY
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