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The Future of Space, Part II: The Potential
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The Future of Space, Part II: The Potential

Getting to space is about to get a lot easier. I talked about the reasons why in the last episode. Now for the fun part: what it will lead to. This summary is focused on some of the changes we're likely to see in the next 5 to 20 years.

Here's a link to the full essay, or you can listen and check out the links below.

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Reference material

  • The Case for Space, by Robert Zubrin. Probably the best rundown of why we need to continue our push into space, how we'll get there, and what it will look like when we do.

  • Beyond, by Chris Impey. Very similar to The Case for Space, so if you're interested I would just read that. I read Beyond first a few years ago and it has a lot of great explanations and potential futures, like using nuclear or fusion engines to explore the universe.

  • Winchell Chung's Atomic Rockets. Basically a Wikipedia for space travel and sci-fi concepts. You could spend days on this site without finishing it.

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This is the audio edition of the FutureBlind blog. Episodes will be rare: on occasion I'll record an audio version of an essay that tries to take advantage of the audio medium with clips from others, good sound design, and more.
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