View source for Future Work for NASA Readings

The following materials were critical in the development of the [[Future Work for NASA]] entry:

===Purpose===

* Scientific American, “The Future of Space Exploration” (October 2007)

* Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have a Dream” [http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm]

* Ted Nodhaus, Michael Shellenberger, Break Through (Houghton Miffin, 2007)

* Thom Hartman, Cracking the Code (Berrett-Koehler, 2007)

==The Great Problems of the 21st Century==

===The Hockey Stick===

* “An Inconvenient Truth”, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth]

* Senator Clinton’s “Innovation Agenda”, [http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/innovation/]

* Senator Obama’s “American Leadership in Space” [http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=26647]

* “The Prophet of Climate Change: James Lovelock, (Rolling Stone, October 17, 2007)[http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16956300/the_prophet_of_climate_change_james_lovelock]

* Brian Fagan, The Great Warming, Climate Change and the Raise and Fall of Civilizations, (Bloomsbury Press, 2008)

* Brian Fagan, The Little Ice Age 1300-1850, (Basic Books, 2000)

* Howard E. McCurdy, Inside NASA (Johns Hopkins, 1994)

* Brenda Forman, “The Politics of Space Science Funding”, GSFC Engineering Colloquium 1998, [http://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/1998-Spring/announce.forman.html]

===Hubbert’s Peak===

*“Hubbert’s Peak”, [http://www.princeton.edu/hubbert/]

* Kenneth S. Deffeyes, Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage (Princeton, 2003)

* Kenneth S. Deffeyes, Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak (Hill, 2006)

* Matthew R. Simmons, Twilight in the Desert (Wiley, 2005)

* National Security Space Office, “Space-Based Solar Power, As an Opportunity for Strategic Security”, [http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/library/nsso.htm]

* Harrison H. Schmitt, Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space (Springer, 2006)

===The Population Bomb===

* United Nations World Population Estimates, [http://esa.un.org/unpp/]

* Wikipedia, “The Limits to Growth” [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_to_Growth]

* D. H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows, Limits to Growth, The 30-Year Update (Earthscan, 2004 edition)

===Moore’s Law===

* “Moore’s Law”, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_Law]

===Cost to LEO===

* P. Dimotakis, “100 lbs to Low Earth Orbit (LEO): Small-Payload Launch Options” (MITER Corp. 1999)

==The Great Themes of the 21st Century==

* Scientific American, “50 Trends” (January 2008)

===The Century of Biology===

* Freeman Dyson, The New York Review of Books, “Our Biotech Future” [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20370?email]

* The National Research Council, “The Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems”, [http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11919]

===The Century of Information===

==Winners and Losers==

* MIT, Technology Review, “Special Reports, 10 Top Technologies 2008” [http://www.technologyreview.com/specialreports/specialreport.aspx?id=25]

* NetworkWorld, “What are the 14 greatest engineering challenges for the 21st century?” [http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/25219]

* Scientific American, “A Solar Grand Plan” (January 2008)

* The National Research Council, The Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon, [http://ssedso.gsfc.nasa.gov/initiatives/lunar/LESWG/pubs_presentations/misc/NAC_final_report.pdf]

* Scientific American, “When markets Beat the Polls” (March 2008)

==Conclusion for NASA==
 
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