Project Work and Tasks

Welcome to the workgroup of the 2008 SGC on Making the Case for human-based exploration beyond LEO. If you are new to this workshop, I invite you to read the posts of last year to familiarize yourself with the discussions. I will also shortly post the current status of our paper. We are tentatively working with "Agenda Wannabe", a media agency based in New Delhi that have much experience in short-film creation. Stay tuned!

Below are discussions held during SGC 2007

Hi Guys,

here is the abstract concluding last year's workshop on the same topic:

"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."