From Space.com
October 11
World Space Conference: NASA Memo: Single Planet Species Do Not Last
A cosmic communiqué is floating around the World Space Congress, authored by NASA Johnson Space Center’s Associate Director (Technical). The man behind that memo is none other than former Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle astronaut, John Young.
Young’s message, obtained by SPACE.com, is direct to numbers of his NASA colleagues: "In order to save the human race we must develop the technologies that will allow us to live and work on other places in the Solar System." Moreover, the NASA official says that, this past year, new knowledge has shown that the human race is at significant risk from normal Solar System and Earth evolving events.
"The Moon is the very best place to establish the first human bases for living, working, and supporting Earth people in this century," Young’s memo declares. He recommends that NASA redo the risk statistics for civilization extinction events and get the word out on what must be done to save the human race over the short or long haul.
In addition, Young urges the space agency to begin development of advanced technologies to live and work on other places in the Solar System.
Why start immediate work on such technology? In bold caps, Young states: "SINGLE PLANET SPECIES DO NOT LAST and we have no idea how much time we have."
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