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” [1]

• 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”, [2]

• Senator Clinton’s “Innovation Agenda”, [3]
• Senator Obama’s “American Leadership in Space” [4]

• “The Prophet of Climate Change: James Lovelock, (Rolling Stone, October 17, 2007)

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• 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,

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Hubbert’s Peak

• “Hubbert’s Peak”, [7]
• 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”, [8]

• 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, [9]
• Wikipedia, “The Limits to Growth” [10]
• D. H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows, Limits to Growth, The 30-Year Update (Earthscan, 2004 edition)

Moore’s Law

• “Moore’s Law”, [11]

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”

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• The National Research Council, “The Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems”, [13]

Winners and Losers

• MIT, Technology Review, “Special Reports, 10 Top Technologies 2008”

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• NetworkWorld, “What are the 14 greatest engineering challenges for the 21st century?”

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

• The National Research Council, The Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon,

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