BMS Symposium on Astrobiology India

Benu Atri provides an excellent summary of the first Blue Marble Space symposium on the Astrobiology India website. The BMS symposium was held in Chicago on the Sunday prior to AbSciCon, which provided a rare and valuable opportunity for members of our community to converse in person. Benu summarizes the roundtable discussion at the symposium, which was recorded and edited into an episode of our BlueSciCon podcast series. If you missed the symposium, then be sure to check out Benu’s […]

July 22, 2015

Podcast: Sustained Solar System Exploration

Live from the 2015 Astrobiology Science Conference in Chicago, our BlueSciCon podcast for June features a lively discussion of our collective ideas for the “Sustained Exploration of the Inner Solar System.” We are currently promoting our essay contest for undergraduate students with the same theme, and we hope that our discussion will help to stimulate ideas in many of our essay contest participants. We purposefully excluded Mars from the conversation (only because Mars gets a lot of attention…), and so […]

June 14, 2015

BlueSciCon Episode 39: Sustained Exploration of the Inner Solar System

Live from AbSciCon 2015 Beverages: Various Listen: [mp3 download] Questions to consider: How can human civilization develop a successful strategy for the sustained exploration of the inner solar system for the next 200 years? What planets and astronomical bodies should we target? Can space exploration be profitable? Is space colonization desirable? [ca_audio url=”http://beerwith.bmsis.org/BlueSciCon_39_JUN2015.mp3″ width=”500″ height=”27″ css_class=”codeart-google-mp3-player”]