"WHY EXPLORE SPACE?" - by Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger

David Brandt-Erichsen mentioned the following.
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Regarding "Why Space?", a good statement on this subject can be found here:
http://www.meaus.com/whyExplore.html
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If you check out the above link, you might also look at the home link as well.
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Also, you will see that the article is by Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Stuhlinger
Ernst Stuhlinger
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Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger is an American atomic, electrical and rocket scientist born in Niederrimbach, Germany, on December 19, 1913. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at age 23, and in 1939 went to work for the German Atomic Energy Program. In 1943, he joined Dr. Wernher von Braun's team at the German village of Peenemuende, where he worked in the field of guidance systems. He was one of 126 scientists who immigrated to the United States with Dr. von Braun after World War II as part of Operation Paperclip. Stuhlinger was director of the space science lab at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, from 1960 to 1968, and then its associate director for science from 1968 to 1975, when he retired and became an adjunct professor and senior research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. In 1955, he became a naturalized United States citizen.

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AND, you will find his name mentioned in the following monograph.
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http://history.nasa.gov/monograph21.pdf
Humans to Mars
Fifty Years of Mission Planning
1950 - 2000
By David S. F. Portree
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Closer to the now -

The shuttle was supposed to launch yesterday. Was watching the countdown on the Internet with my new cable modem facilitating the streaming video.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

All for naught as the weather caused a scrub. Maybe tomorrow.
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http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts116/061207scrub/
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html


Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/
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Hope you can continue to use material from Koelle's website as we learn more
about going back to the Moon.
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http://www.ilr.tu-berlin.de/koelle/
Heinz-Hermann Koelle
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* *Lunar Database Index*
<http://www.ilr.tu-berlin.de/koelle/Moonbase/Content.pdf>
* 0. Basic Data
<http://www.ilr.tu-berlin.de/koelle/Moonbase/Kap0.pdf>
* 1. Lunar Market
<http://www.ilr.tu-berlin.de/koelle/Moonbase/Kap1.pdf>
* 2. Lunar Base Program
<http://www.ilr.tu-berlin.de/koelle/Moonbase/Kap2.pdf>
* 3. Lunar Science
<http://www.ilr.tu-berlin.de/koelle/Moonbase/Kap3.pdf>
* 4. Lunar Facilities
<http://www.ilr.tu-berlin.de/koelle/Moonbase/Kap4.pdf>
* 5. Lunar Logistics
<http://www.ilr.tu-berlin.de/koelle/Moonbase/Kap5.pdf>
* 6. Lunar Space Transportation Systems
<http://www.ilr.tu-berlin.de/koelle/Moonbase/Kap6.pdf>
* 7. Lunar Cost And Benefits
<http://www.ilr.tu-berlin.de/koelle/Moonbase/Kap7.pdf>
* 8. Blueprints For Program Alternatives
<http://www.ilr.tu-berlin.de/koelle/Moonbase/Kap8.pdf>

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http://www.ilr.tu-berlin.de/koelle/Moonbase/Kap4.pdf
4. LUNAR FACILITIES
Table of Contents- 2pp (9 docs.,73 pp.,37tabs., 1 fig. 179 refs.)

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Doc-L42 : LUNAR FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT (LF)
42.1 Classification
The functions listed in Doc-L41 can be carried out only with the help of
facilities, equipment and people. The beginning of all identified functions
has to be specified with respect to a particular point in the timeline,
since this will determine development and delivery schedule as well as labor
requirements for this specific facility or piece of equipment. The size of
the facility or equipment will depend on the performance required. There
will be an initial size at the beginning of the operation, a growth rate and
a final size, determined by the maximum performance or throughput required
during its lifetime. All of these variables will have to be specified for
each scenario analysed. This is done best by the simulation of the entire
life cycle of the respective base model under consideration. - In general,
one has to expect the following types of facilities and equipment in a major
lunar base:

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http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/#0612
JPL Space Calendar

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# Dec 06-08 - Workshop: Locating PeV Cosmic-Ray Accelerators - Future
Detectors in Multi-TeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy, Adelaide, Australia
# Dec 09 -Hot[Dec 08] STS-116 Launch, Space Shuttle Discovery, P5 Truss
Segment, (International Space Station 12A.1)
# Dec 07 - Comet C/2005 YW (LINEAR) Perihelion (1.993 AU)
# Dec 07 - Asteroid 5648 (1990 VU1) Occults HIP 60957 (5.7 Magnitude Star)
# Dec 07 - Lecture: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Spacecraft, Pasadena,
California
# Dec 07 -Updated[Dec 08] 5th Anniversary (2001), Jason/ TIMED Launch
# Dec 08 -Updated[Dec 08] Wildblue 1/ AMC-18 Ariane 5 Launch
# Dec 08 -Updated[Dec 04] Feng Yun 2-D CZ-3A Launch (China)
# Dec 08 - Lecture: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Spacecraft, Pasadena,
California
# Dec 08-10 - Workshop on Early Planetary Differentiation, Sonoma County,
California
# Dec 09 - Asteroid 4535 Adamcarolla Closest Approach To Earth (2.219 AU)

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When you look up what do you see?
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http://www.nss.org/
(December 4, 2006)

NSS announced the launch of the NSS Space Settlement Nexus, a public
Internet portal that offers unlimited access to the most comprehensive
collection of documents, studies and other resources concerning Space
Settlement and related issues. Timed to coincide with NASA's release earlier
today of the agency's Global Exploration Strategy and Lunar Architecture,
the unveiling of the NSS Space Settlement Nexus (www.NSS.org/settlement)
underscores the National Space Society's continued strong support for NASA's
Vision for Space Exploration and the placement of Space Settlement at the
center of NASA's long-term plans. Read Full Text
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http://www.nss.org/settlement/
Space Settlement Nexus
An all-volunteer effort including over 8,000 pages of reference materials


"The people of Earth have both the knowledge
and resources to colonize space."

That was the stated conclusion of this NASA-sponsored study - in 1975! There
are two things you need to know about space settlement:

* We can do it, starting now.
* A future with space settlements is vastly better than one without
them.
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http://www.nss.org/settlement/moon/index.html
Lunar Bases and Settlement

Excerpt from speech of John Marburger
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy
Executive Office of the President
March 15, 2006

The Moon has unique significance for all space applications for a reason
that to my amazement is hardly ever discussed in popular accounts of space
policy. The Moon is the closest source of material that lies far up Earth's
gravity well. Anything that can be made from Lunar material at costs
comparable to Earth manufacture has an enormous overall cost advantage
compared with objects lifted from Earth's surface. The greatest value of the
Moon lies neither in science nor in exploration, but in its material. I am
talking about the possibility of extracting elements and minerals that can
be processed into fuel or massive components of space apparatus. The
production of oxygen in particular, the major component (by mass) of
chemical rocket fuel, is potentially an important Lunar industry.

What are the preconditions for such an industry? That, it seems to me, must
be a primary consideration of the long range planning for the Lunar agenda.
Science studies provide the foundation for a materials production roadmap.
Clever ideas have been advanced for the phased construction of electrical
power sources - perhaps using solar cells manufactured in situ from Lunar
soil. A not unreasonable scenario is a phase of highly subsidized capital
construction followed by market-driven industrial activity to provide Lunar
products such as oxygen refueling services for commercially valuable
Earth-orbiting apparatus.

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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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