Oceans of Opportunity

Tag: Space

one small step…

This week marked our loss of the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong. It goes without saying that a fitting tribute is due. James Clash offers a fitting tribute here on Bloomberg. While I never had an opportunity to meet Armstrong, his influences on manned exploration more broadly, and my own work, runs deep.…

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one small step for man – 8 years earlier

I wouldn’t have thought twice about today being any more significant than yesterday, though thanks to Google I was reminded otherwise. Today is an incredibly significant day in fact – marking the 50th anniversary of mankind’s first steps beyond Planet Earth. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin left our atmosphere on April 12, 1961. The event has likely…

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STS-51L Challenger Tragedy | 25 Years Today

Twenty-five years ago this very morning (at age 6) I was sitting on a tile floor in the hallway of Martin Elementary School in Seekonk, Massachusetts watching history unfold in real-time. This school assembly followed a series of classroom lessons about space – our solar system, the moon, and exploration. As the world turns, it often takes…

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The Earth’s Experience of Space | von Daniken’s Chapter 10

The first 3000 word’s of Chapter 10 in Erich von Daniken’s Chariots of the Gods stand as reflectively poetic today as they were prophetic when written in 1968. von Daniken boldly challenges the reader to consider the ‘future’ of major culturally significant events and evolutions – including the topics of overpopulation, world hunger, alternative and…

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an Earth-like Evolution

Are we alone? The question of all questions, of all civilizations, and of all time. The fact that we have such high biological and chemical diversity here on Earth, would lead one to believe that there are no exacting replicates of us, or even of our biosphere out there on another planet or inhabitable moon,…

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