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Date Sent: 2016-12-24
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Saturday, December 24, 2016 |
We're Going to Mars... FINALLY! - Merry Christmas
We're Going to Mars... FINALLY! -- Two Google Lunar X Prize teams are going to share a ride to the Moon next year -- Private moon rovers may visit the Apollo 17 landing site -- Scientists and Technocrats Team-up to Establish 'Asgardia,' the First Nation State in Space -- Spacex filed with FCC to operate 4400 satellites and Elon Musk Spacex shares are worth $8.1 billion -- LPP Fusion reviewed at Mars Conference -- The hibernation science in 'Passengers' is not far from reality -- SPACEX HIRES 'IRON MAN' COSTUME DESIGNER FOR ITS SPACESUITS -- Extraterrestrial Gold Rush: What's Next for the Space Mining Industry? -- CubeSats could soon be zooming around space under their own power -- Elon Musk describes his vision for human habitats on Mars -- Elon Musk's Plan To Get Us To Mars (In Less Than 90 Seconds) -- In Pictures: Virgin Galactic's 1st Glide Flight of VSS Unity Spaceship -- Holidays on the moon will be possible in a DECADE - but a ticket will cost you £8000 -- Galactic gold rush: the tech companies aiming to make space mining a reality -- Reviewing Space developments in 2016 and the next big future in space -- Grail satellite analysis indicates lava tubes on the moon could be up to 1000 to 5000 ..... -- Trump's newest adviser wants to mine the moon -- SpaceX's Elon Musk announces vision for colonizing Mars -- Russian Airline Owner to Challenge Musk, Bezos in Space -- Come on Hollywood, Give Us an X Prize Movie Already -- Asteroid mining: The race for space riches -- Virgin Galactic Signs Sky and Space Global to Four-Launch Deal -- Popular Science's Spaceship Design Contest Winners! -- Jeff Bezos's New Rocket Will Be Bigger Than Elon Musk's -- Russia is developing a mega-rocket that will transport supplies to build a base on the... -- NASA X-Ray Tech Could Enable Superfast Communication in Deep Space -- BEAM returning 'extremely valuable' data about expandable habitats -- Mars ice deposit holds as much water as Lake Superior -- UN and Sierra Nevada team up to take non-spacefaring nations into orbit --
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Scientists and Technocrats Team-up to Establish 'Asgardia,' the First Nation State in Space
10-14-2016
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technocracy.news By Arthur Dominic Villasanta
There is a core value of modern Scientism that claims that earth is doomed and the only future for man lies in outer space. Nobody else believes this, but the Technocrats are very happy to use taxpayer money to fund their crackpot ambitions. ? TN E
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Spacex filed with FCC to operate 4400 satellites and Elon Musk Spacex shares are worth $8.1 billion
12-15-2016
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nextbigfuture.com
Today, SpaceX filed with the FCC to obtain the rights to operate 4,400 satellites to offer internet services from orbit, a plan that was announced last year.
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News Link • Energy
LPP Fusion reviewed at Mars Conference
12-15-2016
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nextbigfuture.com
Gerald Black - Nuclear Fusion is the solution to energy problems and to advance space propulsion
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SPACEX HIRES 'IRON MAN' COSTUME DESIGNER FOR ITS SPACESUITS
12-24-2016
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http://www.newsweek.com
"The look they are going to unveil in the next few months is something we created here in the studio. [Musk] wanted it to look stylish. It had to be practical but also needed to look great."
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Extraterrestrial Gold Rush: What's Next for the Space Mining Industry?
11-22-2016
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http://www.space.com, By Calla Cofield
If humans eventually want to become a space-faring species, we'll need to be able to collect basic resources, like water, straight from the space environment; it's too expensive and risky to send everything up from Earth, most experts agree.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
CubeSats could soon be zooming around space under their own power
10-25-2016
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newatlas.com by Lynda Delacey
Rubik's-cube-sized CubeSats are a nifty, cheap way for scientists to put a research vessel into space, but they're limited to orbiting where they're launched â€" until now.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Elon Musk describes his vision for human habitats on Mars
10-24-2016
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latimes.com By Samantha Masunaga
SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk answered questions about his plans to send humans to Mars in a Reddit Ask Me Anything session Sunday afternoon that prompted thousands of reader comments.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Elon Musk's Plan To Get Us To Mars (In Less Than 90 Seconds)
09-29-2016
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http://www.popsci.com, By Jason Lederman
The SpaceX CEO detailed his plan in a two-hour press conference
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
In Pictures: Virgin Galactic's 1st Glide Flight of VSS Unity Spaceship
12-03-2016
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http://www.space.com, By Hanneke Weitering
Virgin Galactic's 1st Glide Flight of VSS Unity Spaceship
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Holidays on the moon will be possible in a DECADE - but a ticket will cost you £8000
12-05-2016
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mirror.co.uk ByJeff Parsons
Adventurous holidaymakers could soon be packing for a lunar trip, as long as they're prepared to pay the astronomical ticket price
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Galactic gold rush: the tech companies aiming to make space mining a reality
12-06-2016
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theguardian.com by Dan Tynan
Asteroids and the moon contain vast quantities of natural resources, including water, that could be worth billions and fuel a new phase of space exploration
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Reviewing Space developments in 2016 and the next big future in space
12-15-2016
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nextbigfuture.com
This is one of the Nextbigfuture article series reviewing developments in 2016 and looking ahead to developments over the next few years.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Grail satellite analysis indicates lava tubes on the moon could be up to 1000 to 5000 .....
12-19-2016
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nextbigfuture.com
Slight variations in the moon's gravitational tug have hinted that kilometers-wide caverns lurk beneath the lunar surface.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump's newest adviser wants to mine the moon
12-22-2016
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popsci.com By Sarah Fecht
The addition of Charles Miller to the NASA "landing party" bodes well for private space companies
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX's Elon Musk announces vision for colonizing Mars
12-24-2016
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https://spaceflightnow.com/
A glitzy reveal years in the making, included a description of architecture that could eventually ferry more than 100 to the red planet on each expedition, and thousands if SpaceX and its partners could muster support to build a fleet of boosters and
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Russian Airline Owner to Challenge Musk, Bezos in Space
09-28-2016
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Yuliya Fedorinova, Andrey Lemeshko
A Russian airline entrepreneur wants to join the space race, challenging Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin LLC with a plan to launch commercial rockets.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Come on Hollywood, Give Us an X Prize Movie Already
09-18-2016
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https://www.wired.com, GEEKS GUIDE TO THE GAL
MANY PEOPLE KNOW about the X Prize, the $10 million bounty that spurred the development of SpaceShipOne, the world's first private spaceship. But few people know about all the behind-the-scenes drama that plagued the prize from beginning to end.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Asteroid mining: The race for space riches
09-14-2016
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newatlas.com by David Szondy
There's gold in them thar asteroids â€" also iron, nickel, copper and, most valuable of all, water.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Russia is developing a mega-rocket that will transport supplies to build a base on the...
11-29-2016
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dailymail.co.uk By Julian Robinson
Vladimir Putin wants work to begin on a new 'super-heavy' space rocket
Rocket would enable construction of a lunar base, Moscow has claimed
Ambitious plan was unveiled by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA X-Ray Tech Could Enable Superfast Communication in Deep Space
11-29-2016
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space.com by Charles Q Choi
New technology could use X-rays to transmit data at high rates over vast distances in outer space, as well as enable communications with hypersonic vehicles during re-entry, when radio communications are impossible, NASA scientists say.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
BEAM returning 'extremely valuable' data about expandable habitats
11-29-2016
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http://www.spaceflightinsider.com
Having been attached to the International Space Station for six months, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, better known as BEAM, is already providing data that will inform the design of future human-rated expandable space habitats. The module wa
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Mars ice deposit holds as much water as Lake Superior
11-23-2016
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NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what's in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have determined.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
UN and Sierra Nevada team up to take non-spacefaring nations into orbit
10-06-2016
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http://newatlas.com, Dario Borghino
Getting into space is hard â€" so much so that, nearly 50 years after we put a man on the Moon, there are still only a handful of nations with the funds and technical capabilities to launch rockets into orbit and beyond.
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News Link • China
China Plans A Space Plane For Tourists
10-04-2016
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http://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey D. Atherton
No boosters included
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Will Jeff Bezos win the space race?...
10-15-2016
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dailymail.co.uk, By Libby Plummer and Abigail Beal
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space firm has confirmed that it is still on schedule to send paying customers into orbit as soon as 2018.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Here's How Extraterrestrial Farming Will Work on Mars
11-22-2016
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http://www.space.com, By Ian O'Neill
Landing humans on Mars would be a momentous event in human history. To live beyond Earth's biosphere is a dream to many, but establishing a sustainable presence on the Red Planet will require mastering its environment.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Rocket men: why tech's biggest billionaires want their place in space
12-05-2016
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https://www.theguardian.com, by Dan Tynan
Forget gilded mansions and super yachts. Among the tech elite, space exploration is now the ultimate status symbol
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Elon Musk Explains Raptor Engine at IAC Congress Mexico | Engine test included
12-15-2016
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youtube.com
Elon Musk Explains Raptor Engine at IAC Congress Mexico. Raptor engine test included.
September 26 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk twitted: "SpaceX propulsion just achieved first firing of the Raptor interplanetary transport engine"
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Only Makes Sense that Spacex would use Raptor Engines for upgrading Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy
12-21-2016
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nextbigfuture.com
The Spacex Raptor engines are a family of cryogenic, methane-fueled, rocket engines.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
China says tests of Propellentless EMDrive on Tiangong 2 space station were successful
12-21-2016
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nextbigfuture.com
Dr. Chen Yue, Director of Commercial Satellite Technology for the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) announced on December 10, 2016 that not only has China successfully tested EmDrives technology in its laboratories, but that a proof-of-concept
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Bootstrapping space industry and a solar system wide civilization with Robots and 3D printing
12-22-2016
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http://www.nextbigfuture.com
Advances in robotics and additive manufacturing (3D printing) technologies are game-changing for space colonization.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Comparison Optical Telescope Primary Mirrors
12-24-2016
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arclein
We can now integrate actual targeting of these scopes to a high level of precision and this could provide multiple baselines thousands of miles long and steadily increasing resolution as more and more scopes are added to the network.
It will also
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Africa Will Not Rise Until It Trades With Itself
12-24-2016
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arclein
When African countries feature in Western politics, it's invariably a debate over aid versus trade. In September, Barack Obama hosted a forum in New York designed to promote trade between America and Africa. "From Senegal to South Africa, African
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
Lucy Mbabazi: How One Rwandan Woman Is Using Mobile Phone Technology to Change the World
12-24-2016
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arclein
Lucy found a perfect way to test pilot a system with the United Nations World Food Program [WFP], which had been looking to replace the costly process of donating food to nearly 15,000 Congolese refugees in the Gihembe camp in Northern Rwanda. "For
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News Link • Environment
Mystery of 1952 'Great Smog' Which Killed 12,000 Londoners Has Been Solved
12-24-2016
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arclein
Experiments in Xi'an and Beijing showed that sulphate can form due to interactions caused by nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide ??" building up tiny droplets of sulphuric acid which can be inhaled.
Lead author Renyi Zhang from Texas A&M Un
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News Link • Germany
German security agencies had watched Berlin market attacker for a year
12-23-2016
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intelnews.org
The central suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack had been on the radar of German security agencies since January of this year, because he had links with radical Islamists and sought to buy guns for a terrorist attack.
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News Link • Activism
What You Aren't Being Told About Government Surveillance on DAPL Protesters
12-23-2016
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theantimedia.org
The Electronic Frontier Foundation released a report days ago investigating questionable surveillance during Standing Rock protests.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Carrie Fisher in Intensive Care After Suffering Heart Attack on Plane, Brother Says
12-23-2016
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http://variety.com
The actress was in critical condition earlier in the day, an emergency official told Variety on Friday afternoon. She was moved from the emergency room to the Intensive Care Unit hours later, her brother, Todd Fisher, said Friday evening. The actor a
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News Link • Cyberspace and the New Economy
Mobile Money Has Lifted 194,000 Kenyan Households Out of Poverty
12-23-2016
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fee.org by Scott Burns
In an earlier post, I showed how over the past few years M-PESA and other kinds of "mobile money" have made sending money across the world as easy as sending a text message, while also facilitating commerce and financial inclusion in developing n
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News Link • Holidays
Zagmuk Conquers All!
12-23-2016
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ncc-1776.org by L. Neil Smith
[NOTE: a slightly different version of this essay first appeared in the December 15, 2013 issue (Number 749) of L. Neil Smith's THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE]
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News Link • Water Issues-Water Fluoridation
Four More Government Officials Were Just Charged For Flint Water Failures
12-23-2016
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zerohedge.com by Derrick Broze
On Tuesday, state prosecutors charged four former government employees with conspiring to violate safety rules for their roles in Flint's water crisis.
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News Link • Russia
Vladimir Putin offers cooperation with Donald Trump in Christmas letter
12-23-2016
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washingtontimes.com
Russian President Vladimir Putin asked to "restore the framework of bilateral cooperation" with the U.S. in a letter to President-elect Donald Trump earlier this month -- which the transition team released Friday.
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