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Roger Carlson earned a master’s degree in studies of the future from the University of Houston, Clear Lake City Branch, Texas (UHCLC). The studies centered around the debates between the techno-optimists who predicted abundance and space commerce versus the pessimists who fretted about a new dark age caused by peak resources and the oncoming new ice age. UHCLC is handily near the Johnson Space Center (JSC), so space commerce got some favorable comments.
After graduation, Roger could not resist running away and joining the space circus. He commenced an editing and writing career of 35 years at JSC and then at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. JSC work started with the Space Shuttle design and testing … followed by the beginning of NASA’s long night of multiple redesigns.
Items that Roger supported at JPL including… please attend the episode for that list.
And SO MUCH more!
Roger has a brief presentation for us as well: Traveling the Silk Orbital Flyway to Space … with the Help of Markets
Here’s part of his brief about that…
“Space dreams now include settlements on the Moon and even Mars. However, even the SpaceX Falcon Heavy can only deliver payload to low Earth orbit at a bit less than two-thousand kilos per kilogram … and all the competitors cost much more. (March 4, 2025, https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cost-space-launches-low-earth-orbit) The dreams simply cost too much, without further massive decreases in orbital costs.”
He wrapped up his bio to us like this…
“…there is still that lingering call of the wild—space travel dreams, proposals, and even slowly improving space flights. We need a lot more improvement if we are to build a spacefaring civilization.”
Sounds like an Everyday Spacer to me!
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