Urgent Need for US Space Force
In June 2018, President Trump directed the Department of Defense to “begin the process necessary to establish a space force as the sixth branch of the armed forces.” The reason…
Elon Musk Starship and Super Heavy
Starship and Super Heavy are the biggest, most important pieces of Elon Musk'sgrand plan for SpaceX, his private spaceflight company. Musk has repeatedly stressed that he founded SpaceX back in…
Moon Industrial Complex
The Moon is gateway to space, and in the future it might serve as an industrial and mining complex fueling vast production of spaceships, rocket fuel, satellites, space stations, and…
Megastructures E04 – Rotating Habitats
In this fourth installment of the series we take a lengthy look at Rotating Habitats, large space stations that simulate gravity via spin and can replicate Earth-like environments.Contributed by Tom…
O’Neill Cylinders
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 as as entire city-states or nature…
Apollo 11 World Wide Breakfast
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 Earth's Moon. Here are a…
Solar Minimum is Coming
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 known that this is not true.…
3D Video Tool Demo
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 technological revolutions especially in computing…
Implementing the NSS Vision
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 members of the Sacramento L-5…
Fly Me to the Moon
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 low fuel low thrust orbits…