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FerrisValyn's Profile
I am a professional political space activist. Yes, that means I am paid for doing space activism. I spend most of my time focused on enabling space settlemnet, and when I don't do that, I am into board gaming.
Groups: SciTech
Diaries published: 124 (873 days since last diary on Tue Dec 29, 2020 at 10:55 AM PST)
Comments posted: 13503 (9 days since last comment on Fri May 12, 2023 at 01:51 PM PDT)
Diary frequency: often
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 1357
Total Comment Ratings: 20727
Most Recommended Diary: The loss of a trailblazer - for women, minorities, and spaceflight, 26 comments, 114 recommends
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It’s a few days old, but the Washington Post’s Christian Davenport wrote a piece on the the International Space Station, and the future of space stations. The space agency is confident Congress and its international partners will agree to extend...
by FerrisValyn
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on Tue Dec 29, 2020 at 10:55 AM PST
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There are many meaningful space policy options for a Biden administration. I recommend focusing on enabling and creating space infrastructure in Earth Orbit for commercial development. Making this the primary goal of the U.S. civil space program will...
by FerrisValyn
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on Wed Jul 01, 2020 at 05:37 PM PDT
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As opposed to the Space Race…. Ok, so, with all of the discussion and protests going on about racism in our country, I did want to talk a little about the final frontier — space. The simple fact is that the aerospace sector is incredibly male and white...
by FerrisValyn
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on Sun Jun 21, 2020 at 07:00 PM PDT
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If all goes according to plan today, at 4:32 pm Eastern, astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken will lift off from the Kennedy Space Center, and become the first humans to fly to orbit from the U.S. since the launch of STS-135 in 2011. This is an...
by FerrisValyn
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on Wed May 27, 2020 at 09:02 AM PDT
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Last Thursday, NASA announced it had selected 3 companies to do developmental work on Lunar Lander systems. The first is Blue Origin, aka The National Team (yes, that is what they are calling themselves). It consists of a 3 piece system. The first is a...
by FerrisValyn
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on Mon May 04, 2020 at 11:50 AM PDT
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Today there will be much celebrating about Apollo’s 50th anniversary — on the National Mall, there is a whole bunch of celebrations happening, and of course there is the Saturn 5 on the Washington Monument.
But among these celebrations, there...
by FerrisValyn
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on Sat Jul 20, 2019 at 09:11 AM PDT
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- On Tuesday morning, Wally Funk finally made it to space, six decades after she and the other women of the Mercury 13 were cut off from the possibility of becoming astronauts by a government policy that was deeply and inflexibly misogynistic. Oh, and...174 comments 78 Recs
- The huge Arecibo radio telescope, which had been used for decades to investigate radio waves from deep space back to the early moments of the universe is now a ruin. The instrumentation hanging at the focal point of the of the telescope above the...160 comments 268 Recs
- After 62 days in space, approximately 1,024 orbits around our planet and four spacewalks, the Dragon Capsule is making the first return. to Earth carrying humans. It will be a water landing, off Pensacola, FL. ETA is approximately 2:48 ET. It’s being...73 comments 50 Recs
- Unless weather intervenes, astronauts will drive out to the Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday afternoon and launch aboard a flight that will take them and their Dragon capsule to the International Space Station. Considering that this is the 64th time that a...110 comments 117 Recs
- SpaceX’s Starhopper test finally took place today, in Boca Chica, Texas, after last night’s aborted test and after previous delays getting FAA clearances. This was a test of the raptor engine, a more powerful version of which will power next generation...96 comments 88 Recs
- Dragon-Day is here — SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft is scheduled for launch on top of a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) on March 2 Saturday early morning at 2:49 a.m. EST. The launch will take place from the historic Launch...45 comments 44 Recs
- Thirty five years ago on Feb 7, 1984, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II (June 8, 1937 – December 21, 2017) made the first ever untethered free flight using the Manned Maneuvering Unit and starred in one of the most memorable images of our time. ...13 comments 42 Recs
- Insurance Covers In Vitro Fertilization...Only For Women in Heterosexual Relationships - Many StatesShort diary without links but I want to bring attention to this issue. Writing from memory as I did some reading about this a few weeks ago. I recently learned that insurance companies in Virginia, and some other states, can and do deny coverage of...21 comments 4 Recs
- In the midst of two hurricanes hitting the U.S. over the last few weeks, one of Donald Trump’s picks to fill out his severely understaffed administration slipped by without much airplay. Which is ...206 comments 72 Recs
- (Our guest blogger today is Dr. Richard Holtzin, one of the founding members of NMSTARG. He will be writing about the terrific opportunity New Mexico has in Spaceport America, and why it is ...34 comments 5 Recs
