Commentary by Mike Snead, President, Spacefaring Institute™
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 106 – Recommended reading: Dr. Lamont Colucci argues that a full-fledged U.S. Space Force is needed to meet America’s needs this century in our now clearly apparent Great Power competition with China Continue Reading106 – Recommended reading: A Space Service in Support of American Grand Strategy
Post 103: 2019 (Part 4) focuses on why America’s need for sustainable energy security will be a key driver for America becoming a true human spacefaring nation. Continue Reading103 – 2019: Moving America towards becoming a true human spacefaring nation (Part 4)
This article shows how America’s aerospace industry now has the capability to build a substantial and robust American LEO astrologistics infrastructure and provide aircraft-like fully-reusable space access for passengers. Continue Reading102 – DSIAC Journal article: American “astrologistics”
America will begin a spacefaring industrial revolution transforming America into a true human spacefaring nation AND will use the new astroelectricity to rebuild America for the 22nd century. Continue ReadingAstroelectricity eBook published
On January 23, 2017, this article was published in The Space Review. A PDF of the article is here. The apparent intention of the Trump administration to reestablish the National Continue Reading71 – Space Review article: An engineer’s view of what low-cost, reusable, commerical passenger space transportation means
America faces two critical challenges this century. The first is responding to the uncertainty that the abnormally high and rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) level will have detrimental environmental consequences Continue Reading68 – Understanding Why Wind and Ground Solar Energy Cannot Replace Fossil Fuels
America faces two critical challenges this century. The first is responding to the uncertainty that the abnormally high and rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) level will have detrimental environmental Continue Reading67 – Understanding Why Nuclear Power Cannot Replace Fossil Fuels
Fossil fuels now provide about 80 percent of the energy Americans use. While everyone understands that these are non-renewable energy sources, Americans act as if they were. The reality Continue Reading66 – Understanding America’s Energy Security Challenge
Through the Spacefaring Institute™, a series of five videos on the Spacefaring Institute YouTube® channel are being posted focusing on energy and environmental security explaining why the United States should undertake Continue Reading65 – Understanding the CO2 Issue
On March 7, 2016, the second of my three-part series on world environmental and US energy security was published in The Space Review. (The PDF of the article is available Continue Reading57 – Space Review series (Part 2): US Fossil Fuel Energy Insecurity and Space Solar Power
In 2014, I wrote an update to the my 2008 paper, The End of Easy Energy and What to Do About It. The 2014 paper, The American Energy Security Continue Reading55 – Becoming Spacefaring: America’s Path Forward in Space (Revised)
American aerospace companies now recognize the potential $ trillion market in providing commercial spacefaring logistics services throughout the Earth-Moon system. This 7-minute video by ULA outlines some of their ideas. Continue Reading54 – United Launch Alliance (ULA) sees commercial future for space solar power
Internal advertisement—if you have not already done so, please take 12 minutes to watch my video on space solar power available at http://spacesolarpower.us. On January 26, 2012, former Continue Reading30 – Newt Gingrich’s campaign speech on space
Series recap: This series began, over a year ago, at the conclusion of the National Security Space Office’s (NSSO) 2007 ad hoc study of space-based solar power or, Continue Reading25 – Space Solar Power and America’s Energy Future (Part 6)
The following is an essay published in The Space Review on February 4, 2008. ===== The start of the new presidential administration in 2009 will be a critical time for Continue Reading20 – What to tell the next President about realizing America’s potential in space
The following is an essay published in The Space Review on December 4, 2007. This essay responds to a earlier Space Review essay by Taylor Dinnerman. ===== Taylor Continue Reading18 – Aerospaceplanes and Space Solar Power
On October 10, 2007, I appeared on David Livingston’s The Space Show to talk about spacefaring logistics. For general white papers on the U.S. becoming a true spacefaring nation, Continue Reading16 – Mike Snead’s talking points from his “The Space Show” appearance
It is clear that the U.S. is between the proverbial rock and a hard place with respect to its dependency on imported energy. Effectively addressing this issue will take Continue Reading15 – Space solar power and America’s energy future (Part 1)
The following is the opening of my opinion article published at the on-line The Space Review on September 4, 2007. This article discuses the important role of spacefaring logistics Continue Reading14 – Becoming a true spacefaring amerca