Sentences with phrase «for planetary resources»

For Planetary Resources, the first wave of development is to culminate in a doughnut - shape spacecraft heading on a prospecting mission to a near - Earth asteroid in 2020.

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I also suggest The Man Who Sold the Moon by Robert A. Heinlein, which gave me the idea for the Google Lunar XPrize and the work we're doing with Planetary Resources to prospect and mine asteroids.

«H.R. 2262 fuels a new economy that will open many avenues for the continual growth and prosperity of humanity,» Chris Lewicki, Planetary Resource's president and chief engineer, said in a statement.

This is a real industry: There are quite a few companies vying for these rights already, including Deep Space Industries, Kepler Energy, and Planetary Resources.

«Our goal is to have a space environment that is populated by people acting responsibly,» said Peter Marquez, vice president for global engagement at Planetary Resources.

Chris Lewicki, a former NASA scientist and currently the president and chief engineer of Planetary Resources, chats with Cambridge House Live's Bridgitte Anderson about opportunities for mining in outer space.

For more information and to view photo / video highlights of past Expeditions, please visit: http://spaceangels.com/expedition Companies and organizations who've participated in previous Expeditions include: SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Planet [Labs], Facebook, Made in Space, Terra Bella, Planetary Resources, Spaceflight Industries, BlackSky Global, Ventions, Spire, Kymeta, Tethers Unlimited, Oculus, XCOR, Masten, Final Frontier Design, B612 Foundation, SETI Institute, Museum of Flight, Mojave Air & Spaceport, Boeing, NASA Ames, and more.

Article four of the CSLCA, the Space Resource Exploration and Utilization Act of 2015, is especially important for space mining outfits like Space Angels - funded venture Planetary Resources.

But there is also the promise of a unified planetary society living in harmony with nature, using the natural resources of the earth for the benefit of all the earth's living creatures, and opening up prospects of human adventures never before possible.

Were the church able to provide a vision of a unified planetary society organized both politically and technologically in such a way as to make available the full resources of the earth for the benefit of all the world's people, would it be effective in generating social change?

Asserting that in our time the whole planetary system must be taken into account in planning for a humanly desirable future, he argues that the prime end must be to redirect the use of human and technological resources to overcoming the gap between the affluent nations and that much larger portion of mankind which still exists in hunger, poverty, disease, and misery.

Stray microbes from Earth could potentially harm not just Martian life, but also resources that human settlers may eventually want, such as aquifers, says John Rummel, who served as NASA's planetary protection officer for more than a decade.

Participating in the conversation were Russlynn Ali, assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education; Joan Steitz, a molecular biophysicist at Yale University who studies RNA; Shirley Malcom, head of the directorate for education and human resources at AAAS; and Sara Seager, a planetary scientist and physicist at MIT who studies the atmospheres of planets beyond the solar system.

«An asteroid in the Earth - moon system would provide a safer destination to begin developing our capability for human deep space exploration,» says Chris Lewicki of Planetary Resources, a space - mining firm in Seattle.

In that solutions space, there also lies a new charter for the social sciences; a call for more — and better — social scientific knowledge to inform and inspire the kind of transformative responses needed to face humanity's greatest challenge: to simultaneously safeguard planetary resources, social equity, and human wellbeing.

At Planetary Resources, Mr. Lewicki is responsible for the strategic development of the company's mission and vision, engagement with customers and the scientific community, serves as technical compass, and leads day to day operations.

But in the three - and - a-half years since then, Planetary Resources has made significant progress towards developing and testing the technology needed to make its dream become a reality, according to Lewicki, who served as flight director for NASA's Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers, and surface mission manager for the Phoenix Mars Lander.

Eric Anderson, co-founder and co-chairman of Planetary Resources Inc., said in a statement, «This key technology for determining resources on asteroids can also be applied towards monitoring and managing high - value resources on our homResources Inc., said in a statement, «This key technology for determining resources on asteroids can also be applied towards monitoring and managing high - value resources on our homresources on asteroids can also be applied towards monitoring and managing high - value resources on our homresources on our home planet.

Contribute to real Science Citizen Science — List of projects on the Planetary Society website Zooniverse, Galaxy Zoo — popular citizen Science platforms Resources for citizen scientists — tools for citizen scientists from NASA

Our ISO Class 7 (Class 10,000) clean room facilities at Planetary Resources allow for multiple spacecraft builds and component assemblies in parallel.

What's worse, it does all this while degrading planetary bio-geo-chemical processes and laying waste to natural landscapes, and destroys the resource base for future generations.

These AI factions should be constantly competing for the persitent resources around them through war, asassinations, spying, family mergers (marriage), colonial planetary expansion, tech development, and so on.

Harvest planetary resources and rescue executives to multiply your profit margin, while you stay blissfully entertained with a whole host of captivating retro mini games that will keep you coming back for more.

Mine for resources, cultivate food, build resource centers and shelters, and keep your citizens healthy and happy as you face the numerous challenges of planetary colonization.

If human - induced global warming, among other factors such as human - driven pollution and human - forced overpopulation, serve decisively to precipitate the massive extinction of biodiversity, the irreversible degradation of Earth's environment and the reckless dissipation of its resources, so as to make our planetary home unfit for life as we know it, then is no one to bear responsibility for such a colossal wreckage as we could help to perpetrate in these early years of Century XXI?

Please forgive me for stating the obvious: there are mountains of scientific evidence, plenty of sound reasons and abundant common sense imploring the leaders of India, China, the US and the rest of the over-developed and under - developed world to consider that the seemingly endless, global expansion of large - scale industrialization and production capabilities, now overspreading the surface of Earth, could be approaching a point in history when these unbridled big - business activities could dangerously destablize frangible global ecosystems, irreversibly degrade the environment, recklessly dissipate Earth's natural resource base and, perhaps, destroy our planetary home as a fit place for human habitation by our children.

If per human overconsumption of scarce resources; unbridled economic globalization overspreading the surface of our planetary home; and the skyrocketing increase of absolute global human population numbers could be occurring synergistically in our time and could have something to do with the distinctly human - driven predicament which looms ominously before humanity, does it make sense to consider, just for a moment, what might to done to set limits on these overgrown human activities?

Humanity will have used up its allowance of planetary resources such as water, soil, and clean air for all of 2017 by Wednesday, a report said.

After accounting for errors associated with transport, planetary boundary layer height, lateral boundary conditions, seasonality of emissions, and the spatial resolution of surface emission prior estimates, we find that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) CH4 budget is a factor of 1.64 too low.

This fixed infrastructure coupled with a pretty much insatiable human demand drive for energy services may result in a once - in - a-species crisis if our planetary resource and ecosystems can no longer keep pace.

NOAH is a grassroots organisation founded in 1969 working for equal access to the Earth's resources for current and future generations staying within planetary boundaries.

Interest is growing in the nascent concept of planetary health, and a variety of information, resources, and opportunities for action now exist through the work of numerous projects and organizations.

As the 21st century global economy hits natural resource limits and planetary boundaries, fundamental questions about fair shares will start to arise — and these questions will increasingly come to be seen as the new front line for international development.

Physical needs (that is, nutrition, sanitation, access to energy and elimination of poverty below the US$ 1.90 line) could likely be met for 7 billion people at a level of resource use that does not significantly transgress planetary boundaries.

Startups vying for a piece of the rock include Planetary Resources (tagline: «the Asteroid Mining Company»), backed by billionaires including Larry Page of Google, and Deep Space Industries («Creating Wealth and Opportunity from Space Resources»).