MoonMars Workshop Case for Human Exploration in conjunction with the Planetary Society
MoonMars Workshop Case for Human Exploration in conjunction with the Planetary Society
Welcome to this workshop!
This group will work to create a media piece stating why humans need to explore space.
SGC 2006 Workgroup concluding abstract
Despite the 2004 U.S presidential vision for a human return to the moon and
Mars, and the increase in development of spacecrafts dedicated to exploring
the moon and Mars as precursors to human settlements, the arguments over why
humanity should transition from a robotic to a human based exploration strategy
remains poorly justified to the general public. Although recent intra-governmental
efforts were recently presented, such as the Royal Astronomical study on Human
Exploration, such studies are not global in scope. To address this issue, a
dedicated session was held during the MoonMars workshop, run in collaboration
with the Space Generation Congress, an international youth space congress organized
by the Space Generation Advisory Council, a non-profit organization supporting
the United Nations Programme on Space Applications. It was found that a human
presence in space will have inspirational benefits that a robotic exploration-based
strategy will never be able to provide. Such Inspiration will drive all sectors
of our society, with the culmination of stronger international cooperation and
understanding. In the long term, such inspiration could be the foundation for
human unification.
SGC 2007 Output
The 2007 workshop built upon the 2006 output and wrote a paper describing the ideas generated during the 2007 forum discussion and during the actual Congress, the abstract of which was submitted to the IAC in the aim of finalizing and presenting the paper at the 2008 IAC.
SGC 2008 Goals and Aims
The 2008 workshop will have 2 components. The first will be to continue the
debate and information gathering started in 2006, to strenghten/edit, remove/add
the arguments that were developped in 2007, and think of the best way to create a short video to share the ideas visually. Stay tuned and join the forum discussion!!
soon.
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