| Colonizing The Moon - 599 sec
The Vision for Space Exploration is the United States space policy announced on January 14, 2004 by U.S. President George W. Bush. It is seen as a response to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the state of human spaceflight at NASA, and a way to regain public enthusiasm for space exploration.
The Vision calls for the space program to:
Complete the International Space Station by 2010
Retire the Space Shuttle by 2010
Develop the Orion spacecraft (formerly known as the Crew Exploration Vehicle) by 2008, and conduct its first human spaceflight mission by 2014
Develop Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicles
Explore the Moon with robotic spacecraft missions by 2008 and crewed missions by 2020
Explore Mars and other destinations with robotic and crewed missions
When the Vision was announced in January 2004, the U.S. Congress and the scientific community gave it a mix of positive and negative reviews. For example, Rep. Dave Weldon (R-Fla.) said, "I think this is the best thing that has happened to the space program in decades," while physicist and outspoken manned spaceflight opponent Robert L. Park said that robotic spacecraft "are doing so well it's going to be hard to justify sending a human."
Others, such as the Mars Society have argued that it makes more sense to avoid going back to the Moon and instead focus on going to Mars first.
In a position paper issued by the National Space Society (NSS), a return to the Moon should be considered a high space program priority, in order to begin development of the knowledge and identification of the industries unique to the Moon. The NSS believes that the Moon may be a repository of the history and possible future of our planet, and that the six Apollo landings only scratched the surface of that treasure.
According to NSS, the Moon's far side, permanently shielded from the noisy Earth, is an ideal site for future radio astronomy. Unique products may be producible in the nearly limitless extreme vacuum of the lunar surface, and the Moon's remoteness is the ultimate isolation for biologically hazardous experiments.
Lunar resources include most if not all raw materials available on Earth. The Moon can serve as a proving ground for a wide range of space operations and processes, including developments toward In-Situ Resource Utilization or "living off the land" (i.e., self-sufficiency) for permanent human outposts. This has various benefits.
Initial return missions as recently proposed by the U.S. President and NASA can be done through space operations using the existing launch infrastructure and assets developed by the shuttle and International Space Station programs, plus existing expendable launch vehicles, with a minimum of new research and development programs. The lessons learned from international cooperation during ISS construction and operations can be improved upon and extended to human missions to the Moon, Mars and elsewhere.
Initial missions could place scientific equipment on the Moon and return samples from areas never explored, such as the polar regions. Extent of water and other volatiles important to lunar industrialization could be determined. As future reusable launch systems begin operations, reducing cost and enabling higher flight rates, Earth-Moon traffic can become routine. With humans on the Moon again, NASA's space activities would take on new vigor and public interest.
Throughout much of 2004, it was unclear whether the U.S. Congress would be willing to approve and fund the Vision for Space Exploration. However, in November 2004, Congress passed an omnibus spending bill which gave NASA the $16.2 billion that President Bush had sought to kick-start the Vision. According to then-NASA chief Sean O'Keefe, that spending bill "was as strong an endorsement [of the space exploration vision] as any of us could have imagined." In 2005, Congress passed S.1281, the NASA Authorization act of 2005, which explicitly endorses the Vision.
The current NASA Administrator, Michael Griffin, who took office in April 2005, is a big supporter of the Vision, but has also modified it somewhat, saying that he wants to reduce the four year gap between the retirement of the Space Shuttle and the first manned mission of the Crew Exploration Vehicle.
Auteur : BrunoTheQuestionable
Tags: Colonizing Moon Lunar Colony Base
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| Colonizing American Minds.... - 287 sec
Dear John,
Your minds are being colonized by economic, political, and religious special interests. The technique is to manipulate your most fundamental assumptions (the ones that operate beneath the threshold of your conscious awareness to "filter" your perceptions) so that you "see" the world in a certain way.
Auteur : philosopher8
Tags:philosophy politics religion and psychology
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| Colonizing Iran! [Part IX] - 271 sec
Revolution Square, Tehran - Iran. Thursday Nov 23, 2006 7:06 PM
Auteur : SurfingEurope
Tags:revolution iran regime change colonization colonizing europe europeans square enqelab
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| The Universe: Colonizing Space 1 - 539 sec
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Auteur : alwaysblazen
Tags: space travel science universe black holes super nova aviation constellations
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| Theory in Practice - Colonizing the Sun Studio Recording - 300 sec
TIP in Studio
Auteur : Adbhuta
Tags:Theory in Practice Scar Symmetry Peter Lake Mutant Mekong Delta
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| Gaia Selene - Saving Earth by Colonizing the Moon - 133 sec
Promo for Feature Documentary _ There are two and a half ways to save the Earth and two of them are on the Moon.
A new technological study reveals that by the year 2050 we will need three times as much primary power and it will have to be three times as clean. There is no earthly technology now on line, or capable of coming on line by the year 2050, that can solve our energy problem.
Auteur : chippro
Tags:saving earth climate change warming energy crisis lunar solar power fusion fuel gaia science fiction moon colony
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| The Universe: Colonizing Space 2 - 525 sec
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Auteur : alwaysblazen
Tags: space travel science universe black holes super nova aviation constellations
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| The Universe: Colonizing Space 3 - 472 sec
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Auteur : alwaysblazen
Tags: space travel science universe black holes super nova aviation constellations
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| Theory In Practice - Colonizing The Sun - 337 sec
song
Auteur : Y4m4h4666
Tags: Theory In Practice Metal
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| Colonizing The Sun solo - 52 sec
Theory In Practice - Colonizing The Sun solo.
http://www.myspace.com/shiet
Auteur : BWAHCK
Tags:theory in practice colonizing the sun bwahck guitar solo
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| guide to colonizing - 465 sec
An educational guide to colonizing Jamestown
Auteur : HankBRY
Tags: sheilla ffolliott guide to colonizing jamestown hnrs
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| Gaia Selene - Saving Earth by Colonizing the Moon - 143 sec
Climate change, the energy crisis and colonizing the moon for clean, renewable energy.
Auteur : chippro
Tags: Moon science nuclear climate Ecology space
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| Colonizing the birds - 402 sec
Kimo and the birds
Auteur : kimofilms
Tags: kimo kimowan bird seed
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| Colonizing Mars with Google's F-16 - 217 sec
...with some random aerobatics, loops, etc. (especially towards the end).
Italian comic song "Fascisti su Marte" by Corrado Guzzanti
Auteur : Darkonomist
Tags: Google earth flight simulator aerobatics fascisti su marte death valley california
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| Colonizing Mars? - 124 sec
Sure I'd like to live on Mars. Who wouldn't?
Auteur : SeeSwann
Tags: Mars Google Virgin Richard Branson Virgle See Swann SeeSwann
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| N.C.G. - Colonizing Your Minds - 126 sec
N.C.G. Rehearsal - shot by Tita Furt.
Auteur : juliolatorraca
Tags:negative death grind
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| The Universe: Colonizing Space 5 - 599 sec
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Auteur : alwaysblazen
Tags: space travel science universe black holes super nova aviation constellations
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| Colonizing the Moon - 600 sec
The US Air Force is working toward separating it's Space Command into a different military branch, in the same way the US Air Force became its own branch in 1947 after separating from the US Army, as the US Air Core. The preliminary goal is a permanent military base on the Moon (that would be a COOL order, but PCSing there would suck lol), then when things are secured there starting to colonize civilians and American citizens. America is the greatest nation on Earth... by far. This is just one other proof of it. God and History is our witness, haters are just jealous and miserable.
Auteur : USA04July1776
Tags: united states air force missile rocket nasa satelite moon space universe race exploration future cool military
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| The Universe: Colonizing Space 4 - 537 sec
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Auteur : alwaysblazen
Tags: space travel science universe black holes super nova aviation constellations
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| Gaia Selene - Saving Earth by Colonizing the Moon - 133 sec
Promo for feature documentary on Global Warming, the Energy Crisis and Space Technology for clean, renewable energy
Auteur : chippro
Tags: earth gaia Crisis warming Ecology climate
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