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A new online petition seeks to send people into space sooner, using a Kennedy-era technology that never had the chance to take flight. At We the People, a website that lets users submit petitions to the Obama Administration, one petition urges officials to "harness the full intellectual and industrial strength of our universities, national laboratories and private enterprise to rapidly develop and deploy a nuclear thermal rocket."
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he US based National Space Society (NSS) and Space Canada, an Ontario based not-for-profit organization advocating space based solar power, are jointly trumpeting recently released findings on what they call a "ground-breaking space solar power study," according to the November 15th, 2011 post on the NSS blog titled "National Space Society Hails Space Solar Power Study Findings." Delete the scoop?
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Space-based solar power (SBSP) is one of those ideas that, on the surface, looks particularly attractive. Harnessing sunlight in space—where it’s not limited by the day-night cycle or weather, as on Earth—and beaming that energy to Earth could provide effectively limitless amounts of power to meet the growing needs of humanity without the resource limitations or environmental impacts of alternatives like fossil fuels. However, SBSP’s beauty may be only skin-deep: once you start to dig into the details, from the technical challenges of building massive structures in space to the costs of doing so, it’s easy to understand why the SBSP concept has made little progress since first conceived by Peter Glaser over four decades ago.
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