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Prelude to the High Frontier: Early Space Vehicles
In the closing months of World War II, Henry “Hap” Arnold, Commanding General of the Army Air Forces (AAF), persuaded Caltech’s eminent aeronautics...
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Pioneers of the Final Frontier: Space Art from Victorian Times to World War II
The first example of true astronomical art – the first time that an effort had been made to depict a scene from the surface of another world with...
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The Next Sustainability Frontier Is Digital
Digitalization is a powerful accelerator to create and scale sustainable solutions. Artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the Internet of Things,...
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The Importance of Frontiers
In the summer of 1893, at the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition, Frederick Jackson Turner a minor academic in the new discipline of social...
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Settlement Communities
When Frederick Jackson Turner presented his theory about the closing of the western frontier signaled an end of American civilization’s economic...
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Questions and Answers
By briefly examining the nature of past emerging markets, perhaps we may gain some insights about how the early growth of the future space economy...
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Forever Frontiers
Settling the solar system will take a very very long time simply because our solar system is a very very big place. Generations from now, new...
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Ronald Reagan and the Space Frontier
When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, limits on NASA funding and the lack of direction under the Nixon and Carter administrations had left the U.S....
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Pushback and Challenges
Not everyone is in favor of creating a new settled commercial space economy. There are those who actively resist this development for economic,...
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Frontier Analysis
A great deal of research in economics and business is devoted to the study of the efficiency of individuals, organisations or entire economies. This...
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A New Destiny
When I learned about Manifest Destiny in my high school history class, I took away the patriotic notion that America was a promised land. A place, as...
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Don’t Look Back
Is there room for human compassion in the rugged space frontier? Consider why an immigrant immigrates. Either life is abhorrent or dangerous where...
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Colonies, Outposts, Settlements, and Stations
Over past decades there has been much research and thinking about what a space outpost or settlement would look like, the kinds of activities that...
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The Cosmos Economy The Industrialization of Space
If man’s next big step is to live and work in space, then what will everyone do out there that is so different from what we are now doing here on...
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Excitement and Disappointment: The Emotions of Science
Performing frontier scientific research is a very competitive enterprise. Long gone are the days when the world’s few scientists had royal or wealthy...
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A New Generation of Pilgrims
There are many visions for leaving Earth to settle tomorrow’s space; many reasons to uproot from an old life and pursue a new calling. Some see a...
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The Big Machine
For physicists and many who have casual interests in frontier science, one of the most remarkable machines ever built for fundamental research is the...
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Canada's Public Diplomacy
This book is a timely resource for the debate around “revitalizing” Canada’s public diplomacy, bringing together some of the top scholars of Canadian...
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Intrinsically Intersectional: Difference, Performativity, and Hybridity
This chapter focuses on queer theory’s performativity, postcolonial theory’s hybridity, and Chicana feminism’s mestiza, frontiers, and flow to...
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Semiconductors to Light Antennas: A Woman Engineer’s Career at the Turn of the Third Millennium
I dialogue my early Bell Labs work, at 18 years old, sha** small hair-like S-shaped antennas for the capture of radio-astronomical galactic waves,...