We landed on the moon. We built a habitat on the moon. We are living in earth orbit, and we are living in lunar orbit. We are living on the far side of the moon, with no visibility to earth…ever. With four space stations, two lunar bases, and over 35 crewed trips between the earth […]
S1E8 – Lunar Skylab
The United States was forming quite a bit of a space complex. They had space stations in low earth orbit, learning how to live and work in space, eventually to establish a permanent presence in low earth orbit. They had bases on the surface of the moon. Learning how to live and work on the […]
Belitopia S1E5 – Skylab +
The Space Race wasn’t just about who could get to the moon first. There were other battlefields where the space race was fought. One of those battlefields was in building a permanent manned presence in space in the form of a space station in low earth orbit. Such a station would not only be a […]
Belitopia S1E2 – Apollo Applications Program
The Apollo space program was much more than a set of missions to the moon. It was also a technology platform that provided the basis for future space programs. A technology platform that the Apollo Applications Program was created to leverage and enhance. In real life, not much came of the Apollo Applications Program. […]
Belitopia S1E1 – Apollo +
The Apollo space program. The quintessential peak of human kinds manned space program. The funding that went into this program was astronomical, around $120 **billion** dollars, adjusted for inflation. But once we landed on the moon, we lost interest in space. With the reduced interest in space came reduced funding…and our future in space […]