<p>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.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 16, 2012 3:57 PM, "Ethan Chew" <<a href="mailto:spacefelix@gmail.com">spacefelix@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote">Yo, <div><br></div><div> 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
"<span style="font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">education and research projects that enhance humanity’s survivability, on earth and in space."</span> <div>
<br></div><div> Fare Onwards & Upwards, ML256,</div><div> Ethan/spacefelix<div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Edward Wright</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edward.v.wright@gmail.com" target="_blank">edward.v.wright@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:49 AM<br>Subject: DARPA wants to fund hackerspaces and biosphere work<br>To: Robin Snelson <<a href="mailto:robin.snelson@gmail.com" target="_blank">robin.snelson@gmail.com</a>>, Michael Clive <<a href="mailto:zeinin@gmail.com" target="_blank">zeinin@gmail.com</a>>, Ethan Chew <<a href="mailto:spacefelix@gmail.com" target="_blank">spacefelix@gmail.com</a>>, Scott Nietfeld <<a href="mailto:snietfeld@gmail.com" target="_blank">snietfeld@gmail.com</a>>, Gary Hudson <<a href="mailto:gary@ssi.org" target="_blank">gary@ssi.org</a>><br>
<br><br>I just got a message from Jerry Isdale, who is DARPA lead for a new project, Hackerspaces in Space. <span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">He wants to meet us at Maker Faire. </span><div>
<br></div><div>Jerry has $500,000, which he'll be using to give $30k grants every 3 months for "<span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">education and research projects that enhance humanity’s survivability, on earth and in space."</span></div>
<div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The following is from the DARPA project proposal:</span></div>
<div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><blockquote><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">There are three investment areas we want to focus on in the first decade: education, space economy and biospheres.<br>
</span></b><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The first area is</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 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. <br>
</span></b><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
</span></span></b><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Second, investments in projects to create a viable Near-Earth space economy:<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Space prospecting and mining: Focusing on automated small body electronics: robotics, remote sensing, navigation.</span></li>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Space power station: Providing energy to the Near-Earth space facilities. Solar panels, microwave power transmission</span></li>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></li>
</ul><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
</span></b><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></b></font></blockquote>
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