This week Rob joins Matt for an in-depth conversation with the team behind this years winning entrance to the Mars Society, Nexus Aurora. We chat about the Nexus Aurora organisation and a few of their projects including their Orbital Can project which they are presenting to the IAC in Dubai.
“There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.”
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Nexus Aurora are a global citizens science community, contributing to permanent human space settlement who recently won the Mars City State Design Competition hosted by The Mars Society: https://nexusaurora.com/report.pdf & https://bit.ly/nawinners
There are three levels of engagement in Nexus Aurora:
We are joined not the podcast by the Core admin team:
Koen Kegel - Chair, responsible for Projects and Competitions
Sean Wessels - Secretary, responsible for Marketing & Communications
Cameron Rough - CFO, responsible for Server & Community Management
Here is a shareable link to our Discord server, so you can invite your friends: :link: http://bit.ly/NADiscord
If you wish to support their mission, check https://www.patreon.com/nexusaurora
10 May 1946
The first scientific exploration from space (71 miles high) was the cosmic radiation experiment launched by the U.S. captured and improved V-2 rocket, the first successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground. The captured Von Braun and team had only arrived at white sands about 6 months before. This was the third attempt.
This happened on Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin 46th birthday.