http://spacefrontier.org/2009/07/31/augustine-committee-declares-a-new-national-purpose-in-space-%e2%80%9cworthy-of-a-great-nation%e2%80%9d/ Advancing Newspace, championing ideas for opening the space frontier to human settlement as rapidly as possible Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:11:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://spacefrontier.org/2009/07/31/augustine-committee-declares-a-new-national-purpose-in-space-%e2%80%9cworthy-of-a-great-nation%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-236 James Fairbairn Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:38:15 +0000 http://spacefrontier.org/?p=1215#comment-236 If the extension of human civilisation beyond earth is the goal, then one of the first questions to be adressed is the effect of long term fractional gravity on human body over a very long term (years) together with the effectiveness of possible mitigation measures. This burning question should inform the initial priorities for human inspace activity - whether in earth orbit on on the lunar surface. If the extension of human civilisation beyond earth is the goal, then one of the first questions to be adressed is the effect of long term fractional gravity on human body over a very long term (years) together with the effectiveness of possible mitigation measures.
This burning question should inform the initial priorities for human inspace activity – whether in earth orbit on on the lunar surface.

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