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

[Bahiy Watson]

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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