Other astronautical sites:
Astrogator’s Logs (Athena Andreadis)
Behind the Black (Robert Zimmerman)
British Interplanetary Society
Centauri Dreams (Paul Gilster / Tau Zero Foundation)
Crowlspace (Adam Crowl)
Initiative for Interstellar Studies
I4IS Blog (Initiative for Interstellar Studies)
Rocketeers (Duncan Law-Green)
Selenian Boondocks (Jonathan Goff)
Space Review (Jeff Foust)
Transterrestrial Musings (Rand Simberg)
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AE posts:
2022: What’s to do on Mars?…
2021: New space company Planetopolis…
2020: Cruising in Space…
2019: The Doomsday Fallacy, SpaceX successes…
2018: I, Starship, atheism versus religion, the Copernican principle…
2017: Mars, Supercivilisations, METI…
2016: Stragegic goal for manned spaceflight…
2015: The Pluto Controversy, Mars, SETI…
2014: Skylon, the Great Space Debate, exponential growth, the Fermi “paradox”…
2013: Manned spaceflight, sustainability, the Singularity, Voyager 1, philosophy, ET…
2012: Bulgakov vs. Clarke, starships, the Doomsday Argument…
2011: Manned spaceflight, evolution, worldships, battle for the future…
2010: Views on progress, the Great Sociology Dust-Up…
General essays:
Index to essays – including:
Talk presented to students at the International Space University, May 2016
Basic concepts of Astronautical Evolution
Options for Growth and Sustainability
Mars on the Interstellar Roadmap (2015)
The Great Sociology Debate (2011)
Building Selenopolis (2008)
Astronautics and human progress
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