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Space Exploration: The Next 100 Years
 
Author: Dava Newman, Andrew Chaikin, Supriya Chakrabarti, and more
Narrator: Dava Newman, Andrew Chaikin, Supriya Chakrabarti, and more
Publisher: MIT World
Running Time: 1 Hr. 36 Min.


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Space Exploration: The Next 100 Years

Space Exploration: The Next 100 Years

by Dava Newman




High hopes meet high frustration in this panel, whose participants collectively yearn for a new vision to guide our space program. Andrew Chaikin recommends a three-step self-help regimen to move the program forward: lowering the cost of access to space (the going rate is 10 thousand dollars per pound!); embracing “outside-the-box” ideas; and engaging in a national conversation about space. Supriya Chakrabarti predicts that in around 30 years, NASA will be deploying robotic terrestrial planet finders and using the moon for both tourism and commercial development like mining. This will be possible if in the short term space scientists look for low-cost launch options, which might include exploiting existing missile technology. Richard Binzel puts the odds of a civilization-threatening asteroid impact in the next 100 years at one in a million, but believes the odds are a whole lot better that human beings will be exploring asteroids in space. We’ve got a leg up since we’ve already sent robot reconnaissance to the moons of Jupiter. If we’re worried about catastrophic asteroid strikes, Binzel says, we should start taking incremental steps, such as putting nuclear reactors in space to power vehicles for long inter-planetary journeys.













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 What's the Future of Space?
In this streaming audio and video panel discussion from MIT, three space experts make their predictions about what the next 100 years will bring when it comes to exploring space.

They talk about potential ways to make space travel cheaper and more accessible along with power point presentations of images to help us visualize some of these developments. The talk is quite informal, and the lecturers have fun with it. There''s a lot of interesting topics addressed such as the state of the U.S. space program, the possibilities of asteroids hitting the earth, and much more.


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  • Published: 2002
  • LearnOutLoud.com Product ID: S015547

 History  The Future
 Science  Astronomy

 

This Author: Dava Newman
This Narrator: Dava Newman, Andrew Chaikin, Supriya Chakrabarti
This Publisher: MIT World
 
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