Updating the Integrated Space Plan 65
garyebickford writes 'Space Finance Group (in which I'm a partner) has launched a Kickstarter to fund updating the "famous Integrated Space Plan", created by Ron Jones at Rockwell International in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and can be found on walls in the industry even today. The new Plan will be a poster, but also will provide the initial core data for a new website. The permanent link will be thespaceplan.com. As additional resources become available the website will be able to contain much more information, with (eventually) advanced data management (possibly including sources like Linked Data) and visualization tools to become a resource for education, research, entertainment, and business analytics. The group also hopes to support curated crowdsourcing of some data, and is talking to Space Development companies about providing data about themselves. They hope to be able to construct new timelines and show the relations between events and entities — companies, agencies, people, etc.'
Send money to support our TV commercial! (Score:3, Interesting)
This is somebody asking for money for a TV commercial for an "integrated space plan"?
We're almost done with space. Seen the moon; it's boring. Seen Mars, it's boring. Seen Phobos and Deimos; they're just rocks. No off-earth life; might find bacteria someday. Venus and inward are too hot; outward of Mars is too cold. Satellites work fine, both at GEO and LEO. Sending people to LEO is expensive fun; might catch on if gets cheaper.
Mission accomplished!
Poster already widely available (Score:2, Interesting)
A poster of the new integrated space plan is already widely available. It's a blank piece of paper - there is no plan.
NSS roadmap (Score:4, Interesting)
Well, the National Space Society already has a space roadmap:
http://www.nss.org/settlement/... [nss.org]
I will also unapologetically list my twenty-some-year old Footsteps to Mars, presented at Case for Mars V, Boulder CO, 26-29 May 1993.
http://www.geoffreylandis.com/... [geoffreylandis.com]
http://www.wired.com/2014/03/f... [wired.com]