| Published: March 2, 2010 – 10:28 am
On Saturday February 27, The Planetary Society honored Stephen Hawking with the Cosmos Award, named in honor of Carl Sagan. Professor Hawking delivered an insightful talk about balancing robot exploration with human spaceflight. Then our panel took questions from the British audience. We all want to extend our reach to distant destinations, especially Mars. For Read More >
| Published: November 12, 2009 – 10:31 am
About fifteen years ago, I had the honor and pleasure of having lunch with Glenn Seaborg. Unlike many of us, he was awarded a Nobel Prize. He discovered, or created, or contrived the means to prepare the very first piece of Plutonium humans had ever seen. He was of the Nuclear Age, a time when it was imagined that nuclear power would render electricity too cheap to even bother charging customers for. Read More >
| Published: November 12, 2009 – 10:29 am
Among other things, I’m the vice president of a worldwide, medium-sized organization called The Planetary Society. We are launching a series of spacecraft that will be driven through space, not by rocket fuel, but by the pressure of sunlight.
It is surprising at first, at least for most everyone I’ve ever met, that light has momentum. Light has no mass, y’know. Yet it can ever-so-slightly push things. Read More >
