[General] Fwd: DARPA wants to fund hackerspaces and biosphere work

[ainut at hiwaay.net]

Quoting Bahiy Watson <bahiy1 at gmail.com>:

> It seems like the question is ... How do we pursue this grant and capture
> it for Makers Local? Does anyone know?
> On May 16, 2012 5:20 PM, "Neil Spear" <spearna at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Very cool.  For 3 years, I worked in NASA mission operations for the Space
>> Shuttle and Space station, then 1 year in Auxiliary propulsion design for
>> Ares 1.  Also, my educational background is orbital mechanics.  I'd be
>> willing to lend any knowledge to any future efforts.
>>
>>
>> - Neil
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Bahiy Watson <bahiy1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This is right up my alley. I work on planes now for Boeing. But not too
>>> long ago I worked on an Apollo style crew capsule. I had ideas on how to
>>> make it lighter but the ideas were shot down. They were considered too
>>> risky for space flight, but in the airplane business they do what I was
>>> suggesting all the time.
>>> On May 16, 2012 3:57 PM, "Ethan Chew" <spacefelix at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yo,
>>>>
>>>>       Some more ears to the ground info on the DARPA grant of
>>>> HackerSpaces in Space Program.  Jerrry Isdale of Maui Makers now has
>>>> $500,000.00 he will be using to give $30,000 grants every 3  
>>>> months for  "education
>>>> and research projects that enhance humanity's survivability, on earth and
>>>> in space."
>>>>
>>>>                   Fare Onwards & Upwards, ML256,
>>>>                   Ethan/spacefelix
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Edward Wright <edward.v.wright at gmail.com>
>>>> Date: Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:49 AM
>>>> Subject: DARPA wants to fund hackerspaces and biosphere work
>>>> To: Robin Snelson <robin.snelson at gmail.com>, Michael Clive <
>>>> zeinin at gmail.com>, Ethan Chew <spacefelix at gmail.com>, Scott Nietfeld <
>>>> snietfeld at gmail.com>, Gary Hudson <gary at ssi.org>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I just got a message from Jerry Isdale, who is DARPA lead for a new
>>>> project, Hackerspaces in Space. He wants to meet us at Maker Faire.
>>>>
>>>> Jerry has $500,000, which he'll be using to give $30k grants every 3
>>>> months for "education and research projects that enhance humanity's
>>>> survivability, on earth and in space."
>>>>
>>>> The following is from the DARPA project proposal:
>>>>
>>>> *There are three investment areas we want to focus on in the first
>>>> decade: education, space economy and biospheres.
>>>> **The first area is creating new generations of makers and researchers
>>>> who can research and implement the necessary technologies. This will be in
>>>> the form of an open source education program, with both self-education and
>>>> group-education components, designed to teach successive generations the
>>>> basics of Maker/ Tinker/ Hacker thinking and encourage continual  
>>>> innovation
>>>> and improvement of the program itself. We also want to inspire an interest
>>>> in space development through providing opportunities for applied sciences
>>>> and engineering.
>>>> **
>>>> **Second, investments in projects to create a viable Near-Earth space
>>>> economy:
>>>>
>>>> *
>>>>
>>>>    - Space prospecting and mining: Focusing on automated small body
>>>>    electronics: robotics, remote sensing, navigation.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Space power station: Providing energy to the Near-Earth space
>>>>    facilities. Solar panels, microwave power transmission
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Space manufacturing: Once provided with power and material, it is
>>>>    possible to start manufacturing in space. To scale up  
>>>> production, research
>>>>    into self-replicating 3D printing machines and fully automated
>>>>    manufacturing.
>>>>
>>>> *
>>>> **Finally, efforts to make it possible to live autonomously in space
>>>> and other planets of the solar system through the creation of
>>>> self-encapsulated biospheres with improvements in hydroponics and waste
>>>> recycling.*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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