Articles, Blogs, & Interesting Stuff
This page is intended to be a location for miscellaneous stuff I think worth knowing about or saving for later reference. Usually it will be unrelated to anything I am working on, just, as I said, miscellaneous.
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Encyclopedia of BioAstronautics - Humans and Robots in Space Exploration, Friedman, 2019
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Op-Ed published Feb.3, 2020: Commenting on changes in the current NASA human space program focus on the Moon
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Obituary for our good friend and colleague Dr. Slava
Linkin, published by The Planetary Society
https://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2019/slava-linkin-obituary.html
Article published in Aerospace America (Jan 2019)
about a mission concept on which we are working, to
the Solar Gravity Lens Focus
https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/imaging-a-habitable-world/
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Aug 2018,
with Paper by Louis Friedman and Slava Turyshev: First Stop on the
Interstellar Mission
https://louisdfriedman.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/jbis-v71-no08-august-2018.pdf
PAPER PRESENTED AS POSTER TALK AT COSPAR, JULY 2018
Humans to Mars Political History
This paper is now included as an appendix in my new book: Planetary
Adventures from Moscow to Mars
https://louisdfriedman.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/humans-to-mars-political-history.pdf
Letter to Congress about NASA’s Journey to Mars
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2932/1
Historical Reflection on What Has Made The Planetary Society Significant
[pdf] — remarks delivered at Huntington Library reception for Society charter members and donors
President Obama’s Arctic Trip – A Blog, 4 Sep 2015
https://louisdfriedman.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/president-obamas-arctic-trip1.pdf
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Congratulations to all those who’ve worked on and supported LightSail
over the past ten years. I am very proud of our LightSail team and of the
spacecraft designed and developed by Tom Svitek and Stellar Inc., and by
Jim Cantrell, our first project manager. Congratulations to Dave Spencer
and his students first at Georgia Tech and then at Purdue, to Rex Ridenoure
and Ecliptic Enterprises and to Doug Stetson a Tech and especially to the
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo teams who overcame difficulties during mission
operations to enable seeing the successful deployment test with LightSail-1
and then the full orbital flight of LightSail-2. I express my appreciation to Bill Nye and The Planetary Society staff for their determination to make it happen.
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This picture overlays the wonderful “selfie”captured by the
LightSail-1 camera system (built by Aerospace Corporation) installed
on the spacecraft’s solar panels on a photo of the four “fathers of
LightSail,” its originators and designers (from right to left): Jim
Cantrell, Tom Svitek, Louis Friedman, and an otherwise anonymous
member of The Planetary Society whose key donations made
it possible.
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“Phobos Indeed,” an op-ed 20 Apr 2015
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2735/1
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Canopus Award won by Louis Friedman and Slava Turyshev for our essay on the idea of a Solar Gravity Lens Mission
– Finding Earth 2.0 at the Solar Gravity Lens Focus [pdf]
Op-Ed: Government – Commercial space cooperation in the aftermath of the Antares and Spaceship Two Accidents
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2634/1
Two papers presented at the International Astronautical Congress -Oct 2014, Toronto, Canada:
Synergies of Robotic Asteroid Redirection Technologies and Human
Space Exploration IAC-2014-ARM-KISSpaper (.pdf)
Science and Technology Steps Into the Interstellar Medium IAC-2014-ISMpaper (.pdf)
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2634/1
https://louisdfriedman.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/iac-2014-ismpaper.pdf
Rethinking MSR (.pdf)
A work-in-progress, re-thinking the role of Mars Sample Return in Mars Exploration planning. I am discussing this with colleagues and invite comments.
https://louisdfriedman.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/rethinking-msr.pdf
ESA success with Rosetta (.PDF)
https://louisdfriedman.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/esa-success-with-rosetta.pdf Commentary,
10 Aug 2014
USA Today took me to see the new movie, INTERSTELLAR, and then
interviewed me about the science and reality of it all. It was a terrific
movie — I admired the treatment of the physics. The treatment of
engineering was over the top — but very entertaining, The interview
is here.
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/life/movies/2014/11/09/18675643/
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