NYC SPACE

BROOKLYN in New York City was where New Yorkers were the first "viritual astronauts" who fancifully traveled to the Moon and Mars in the first decade of the 20th Century via marvelous simulated exhibit rides at Coney Island in Luna Park. In the 21st Century, NYC is a leader in space activism, events, institutions, organizations, research, planetary robotics and spacesuit design.

Since 2006 "ASTRO-GAIA NEWS" has documented much of that as a free public information service and continues to provide that, along with our new "ASTRO-GAIA NYC-SPACE JOURNAL" extra webzine launched in early 2013. It includes pages on the NYC Space Society (NSS in NYC) and other space advocacy organizations in NYC. Iin 2004, the "SPACESHIP GAIA EXPLORER: A Cosmic Ecology Journal for Earth & Space" webzine was the first ASTRO-GAIA publication. All are the productions of NYC journalist and activist Harold Walter Egeln, Jr.

For the most comprehensive metro-NYC Space News and Events, the prime stellar source is NYSkies Astronomy, Inc. [www.nyskies.org], provided by astronomer John Pazmino, a longtime prominent amateur home astronomy leader in NYC. NYSkies Astronomy holds twice monthly free open public seminars (see item on this home-page) in Chelsea. The seminars are currently the place that the NSS-NYC Space Society attends.

READ "SPACEWALK" RIGHT HERE EVERY MONTH!

NYSkies Astronomy publishes the most popular space and astronomy monthy news source in metro-NYC, "SPACEWALK" in PDF format that can be visited from the www.nyskies.org homepage or directly at www.nyskies.org/sw.htm. The link has been provided here by ASTRO-GAIA NEWS/NY SPACE since 2006.

For the "GAIA" ecology issues and news portion for endangered "Spaceship Earth" we have our "HOMEPLANET REPORT-NYC" webzine.

Our second webpage (click-on "Next Page" at end of this homepage) here features our Mission Control internal webpages links and links to many major daily and weekly space news publications, giving readers a place to find...

"All the Space News That's Fit to Explore."

[Mars photo courtesy of NASA.]

"MISSION TO MARS: MY VISION FOR SPACE EXPLORATION" -- A NEW BOOK by BUZZ ALDRIN MAPS TRIPS VIA "ALDRIN CYCLER" SPACE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM!

"Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration" is a new book by Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, published May 2013 by National Geographic Books.

"Do NOT put NASA astronauts on the Moon. They have other places to go," Aldrin told Leonard David of www.Space.com.

The famous moonwalker's tandem spaceships "Adrin Mars-Cycler" is his daring, workable and efficient design concept for a continuous interplanetary space transportation loop system between the Earth-Moon region and Mars to ferry astronauts to and from the Red Planet.

On July 20, 2009, the 40th anniversary of the historic first lunar landing, Apollo astronauts declared that Mars must be the next destination in human space travel and settlement. Let's Go to Mars!

"To Mars! To Mars! We're off to Mars today. -- It's just one world away, He's calling out our name. -- To Mars! To Mars! We're going there to stay. -- When we're on Mars, We'll be halfway to the stars." -- Elaine Walker from her "Mars" CD -- copyright-2000©ZIA ww.ziaspace.com

The Current Off-Earth Human Population of Space is Three People. "People living and working in thriving communities beyond the Earth." - National Space Society **** Six astronauts are now in Earth orbit. Spacefarers aboard the International Space Station in Expedition #34, living and working at the LEO DoorWay to Outer Space, as of May 14, 2013: CHRIS CASSIDY [NASA],.PAVEL VINOGRADOV [ROSCOSMOS], & ALEXANDER MISURKN [ROSCOSMOS]. **** "People of the world, let's safeguard and enhance its beauty, not destroy it." - Yuri Gagarin, 1961 **** "Oh, that view is tremendous!" - John Glenn, 1962 *** "To boldly go where no one has gone before!" - Capt. Picard. **** "Space Is The Place." - Sun Ra

For current ISS information, click-on www.nasa.gov/station, and for both current and past ISS crew and expedition information, click-on the website below:

"Once you reach orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system... But we don't want to stay there... We are reaching for the stars." -- ROBERT HEINLEIN

DESTINATION MOON & PROJECT MOONBASE

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"Lunar settlement now lies within our power to accomplish and can change our whole state of affairs at a stroke. From the material and psychological aspects, it our best step upon our road to the stars." -- THE LUNA PROJECT

In December 2012, the U.S. and the world barely noticed te 40th anniversary of humanity's last spaceflight in 1972 to another world, the Moon, upon which the last Apollo 17 mission astronauts noted that humankind will return to in the future. Underway are new projects by private enterprise and other nations, and new organizations are putting the giant space spotlight on Moon settlement.

These include The Luna Project and the new documentary "Lunarcy" by Simon Ennis, with Apollo astronaut and artist Alan Bean, and NSS Regional 3 (Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas) Director Christopher D. Carson, who recently met with NSS-NYC Space Society leaders, among those in it.

Recently the Moon and Back organization [www.moonandback.com] was launched, and The Moon Society [www.moonsociety.org] has been active since 2000, among other efforts such as Lunar Explorer.

FROM REEL TO REAL THEN BACK TO REEL AND BACK TO REAL MOON BASES

The movie still photo above is from the famous 1950 science fiction classic "Destination Moon" by Irving Pichel, based on Robert Heinlein's 1947 novel. It was released on June 27, 1950, 25 days after the release of "Rocketship X-M" about a lunar flight that accidently landed on Mars.

Earlier Moon movies were the German "Woman On The Moon" in 1929, a Russian movie in 1935, and "Things To Come" in 1936. Many have been made over the years, with the 1953 "Project Moonbase" ("Thrills come rocketing to the screen as science smashes a New Frontier") about the first base in 1970. In 1991 the "Plymouth -- Moon Colony" TV movie shown, and we had the "Space 1999" TV series in the 1970s. There have been more movies about Moon trips than the nine real ones made by historic Apollo missions.

This nation has lost its vision and its longstanding sense of futurity. But visionaries are fast blooming among the creative, forward-looking landscape, with eyes, minds and hands working now towards renewed "lunar exploration, research and settlement," as The Luna Project states.

The links below below are meant to help inspire and re-ignite a new sense of lunar exploration and settlement. Ad Luna! Ad Mars! Ad Astra!

NASA'S HALF-PENNY OF EVERY U.S. TAX DOLLAR When Americans are polled about the money the federal government spends yearly for NASA, many say, at most, "20 percent." In a poll this month (March 2013), nearly all respondents said that too much money is spent on space and it should be cut, believing in that 20% nonfactoid. In Fiscal Year 2012 NASA's percentage of the federal budget was 0.5%, with a space budget amount of less than $19-billion ($18.727) of the $3-trillion U.S. government budget. That's half-a-penny of each tax dollar. NASA's highest percentage was in FY-1966 at 4.4%, during the height of outlays for the Apollo Project. It dropped off dramatically after the aborted lunar landing of the damaged Apollo 13 mission in 1970, and has fallen drastically since, especially in the last five years. In March 2013, the Space Exploration Alliance (SEA) made educational visits by 29 volunteers divided into eight teams to 84 U.S. senators and representatives with information about the state of the U.S. space program, news reports said. SEA noted that 19,000 space-related jobs could be lost due to congressional budget spending cutbacks.

Dance with the Real Stars at the Rose Center for Earth & Space's famous and fabulous Hayden Planetarium! Click-on www.amnh.org/programs for full information on planetarium shows, special exhibits and events, and the once-a-monthly "Star-Struck" Tuesdays' evening lectures (you can sign-up there for Star-Struck notices).

NYSKIES ASTRONOMY, INC. Free Public Seminars Twice A Month, Every Month!

"NYSkies Astronomy is the support service for home astronomy in New York.... NY Skies (is) on top of the astronomical world in and around the city!" --- John Pazmino, founder and moderator of NYSkies Astronomy, Inc.

The nonprofit NYSkies Astronomy holds twice monthly free public seminars, every month of the year (that equals 24 seminars per year!), on every first and third Friday evenings of the month from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the McBurney "Y" in the First Floor Function Room, 125 West 14th Street (north side of block) in Chelsea, between 6th and 7th avenues. It's just one subway ride from nearly anywhere in the city!

"These meetings are discussions and presentations of current astronomy topics, space missions, show and tell, celestial events, travel and conferences, observing reports, and news of other astronomy activities in and around NYC," explained Pazmno.

The first NYSkies seminar was held on March 17, 2005 at St. Paul's Litheran Church in Chelsea. When the NYC Space Society-NSS lost its place at NYU at the end of 2007, the NSS-NYC chapter meetings were held jointly with NYSkies seminars. That arrangement with the NSS-NYC chapter ended when NYSkies seminars moved to the McBurney Y in April 2010, but NSS chapter members were welcomed to attend and participate.

"The formation of the NYSkies Astronomy Seminar came from the growing desire of NYSkiers and othe local astronomers to have a congenial climate in which to carry on their discussions of astronomy, to offer a more personal flavor to the Yahoogroups forum, and to give NYSkies more visibility as an urban astronomy support service," said Pazmino.

To receive seminar notices and special alerts, sign-on to nysky.subscribe@yahoogroups.com and for more information, click-on the NYSkies website at www.nyskies.org. For NYC Events: www.nyskies.org/nyc.htm and for PazMiniBits: www.nyskies.org/pmb.htm

NYC-Space Society (NSS-NYC chapter) website: http://community-2.webtv.net/AstroEcologist/ASTROGAIANYCSPACE/page2.html

"LITHOPANSPERMIA" PRESENTATION BY DR. EDWARD BELBRUNO AT NYSKIES ASTRONOMY At the NYSkies Astronomy seminar on February 15, 2013, held in Chelsea, NY, Dr. Edward Belbruno gave a presentation on "LITHOPANSPERMIA." Dr. Belbrno is the famed space orbital mechanics mathematician and scientist, and author of "Fly Me to the Moon: An Insider's Guide to the New Science of Space Travel" [Princeton University Press]. Dr. Belbruno [www.EdBelbruno.com] is founder and president of Innovative Orbital Design, Inc. [www.SpaceRoutes.com] in Princeton, NJ, and the NYC Space Society's Honorary Vice President. In January, it was announced that a documentary of his life and work, "PAINTING THE WAY TO THE MOON," is being made for a late Summer 2013 release, by well-known documentarian moviemaker Jacob Okada [www.jacobokada.com]. FOR MORE ON DR. BELBRUNO & LITHOPANSPERMIA, read the article and click-on the many links below.****

Among the many venues for pro-space activities in the metropolitan area are the NYC Space Society (the NSS city chapter - logo shown here), The Planetary Society, Space Frontier Foundation, the Hayden Planetariun at the AMNH Rose Center for Earth & Space, NYSkies Astronomy Inc., the Intrepid Museum and Space Shuttle Enterprise Pavillion, Cradle of Aviation Museum, NYC Amateur Astronomers Association, Yuri's Night-NYC, and planetariums (some with observatories) in Newark, Yonkers, Staten Island and Long Island, among other space choices. Click-on several of these venue sites below, and find more on the next few pages of this webzine.

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