A look at O’Neill Cylinders, immense space habitats. Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Far larger than any conventional Space Station, O’Neill Cylinders could potentially serve
Last summer Joe Bland the President of the Sacramento L5 Society organized a world wide video conference to celebrate our landing of Apollo 11 on
High up in the clear blue noontime sky, the sun appears to be much the same day-in, day-out, year after year. But astronomers have long
Apple 3D Video Tool Demo by Ed Kulis – [email protected] The sky is the limit? Well, why stop there? The space program inspired wave after wave of
Exciting News! Our Sacramento L5 Society has an article published in the National Space Society Magazine! Implementing the NSS Vision We, a consensus of the
Fly Me to the Moon: An Insider’s Guide to the New Science of Space Travel by Edward Belbruno This is a great book that describes
In astronautics, a powered flyby, or Oberth maneuver, is a maneuver in which a spacecraft falls into a gravitational well, and then accelerates when its
Ted Talks is a great site to see enthusiasm for technical and intellectual excellence. Check out Carolyn Porco: This is Saturn where Carolyn describes the water on Enceladus and
The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation, or ideal rocket equation, describes the motion of vehicles that follow the basic principle of a rocket: a device that can
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its
Fantastic trip! Here’s some of the surprises: The VAB Vehicle Assembly Building – you can’t tell how large it is. I’ve heard the NASA wanted
Good Reading! Starship Century: Toward the Grandest Horizon Edited by James Benford and Gregory Benford Starship Century is a ground‐breaking anthology of science and science fiction based
Well, not actually but come join us and grow the tech to settle space. Contribute to the blog! Attend our monthly meetings in person or online.
In 2016, the SL5S entered the “100&Change” grant contest. Their entry focused on helping solve the enormous problems resulting from the ongoing collision between linear
Spaceports in the desert sound dusty? Would you put seaports in the desert? How about Space Ports in Space? — Here’s PDF links for original
Clockwise from right, Jan, Ed, Joe and Tom on screen met for 2 hours Saturday 1/11/20 at 5pm at JP Aerospace, Rancho Cordova, CA. Here’s
Sierra Nevada Corp. opened part of its plant in Louisville in October 2019 to the public to celebrate the arrival of the primary structure of
NASA’s planetary science program is engaged in one of the oldest scientific pursuits: the observation and discovery of our solar system’s planetary objects. We undertake
Alcubierre drive The Alcubierre drive, Alcubierre warp drive, or Alcubierre metric (referring to metric tensor) is a speculative idea based on a solution of Einstein’s field equations in general relativity as proposed by Mexican
In the human race’s distant past, the world was effectively boundless. The L5 Society was originally founded on the vision that it’s possible to recreate
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