Commentary by Mike Snead, President, Spacefaring Institute™
Three decades ago, eight members of Congress requested that the Congressional Research Service assess the potential for the expanded military use of space by both the United States and the Continue Reading117 – Col. John M. Collin’s classic 1989 report “Military Space Forces: The Next Fifty Years”
Watch the key parts of President Kennedy’s 1962 Rice University speech where he called for America to be the world’s leading spacefaring nation. Continue Reading111 – President Kennedy’s “We choose to go to the moon” speech
Post 108 – Exploiting the vast potential of the natural resources of outer space was first identified by Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky in his 1926 book Sixteen Stages of Space Exploration. Through his writings, he identified quite clearly our spacefaring future. Continue Reading108 – Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky: Humanity’s spacefaring future-teller
As General Arnold first recognized 60 years ago, the United States must become a true human spacefaring nation, both militarily and commercially. Continue Reading99 – 2019: Moving America towards becoming a true human spacefaring nation (Part 2)
While Congress is exhausting itself in the political judo of rearranging the “deck chairs” of Congress, technologically and operationally the United States is making significant strides towards the long-held national Continue Reading98 – 2019: Moving America towards becoming a true human spacefaring nation (Part 1)
I am reposting this blog entry along with an update. The original posting disappeared while migrating the website to a new server. If you recently signed up to receive email Continue Reading79 – Excellent historical technical description of NASA’s Space Shuttle System (Repost with update)
Today, the U.S. human space program is severely handicapped by a paucity of forward-looking leaders. Consequently, it struggles from one self-created crisis to the next, not having any solid foundation Continue Reading38 – 1956 short film of Von Braun shows the human spacefaring vision that the U.S. then had, but has since lost