With the vision of Walt “If you can dream it you can do it” Disney and the scope of Gene “Star Trek — The Final Frontier” Roddenberry, Steve Durst, of Space Age Publishing Company (Palo Alto, CA), is determined to lead us into the Aquarius Age, The Next 2000 Years!

According to Steve, “This amazing Milky Way Galaxy…A new human domain, massive and immense, yet finite enough for human understanding and familiarization — multi-billions larger than our solar / star system, yet sub-microscopic in the cosmic infinity.”

This is early ebullient thinking at its finest!

As we approach the 2015 Maslow Window, this stunning vision of human expansion into the cosmos will continue to gain momentum and begin to go ballistic.

In his 4/20/09 email to me, “I do wish I had learned about 21st Century Waves before writing the 2100 / 100AA essay — lots of synchronous interests and perspectives there, continuing same of last 30+ years — Congratulations.” Thanks and Congratulations to you too Steve!

Space Calendar (Vol 4, No. 10) featured my new concept for interplanetary commerce. Click spacecal.JPG

I first heard of Space Calendar in the 1980s shortly after I joined General Dynamics and had developed an idea that would provide an economic incentive for the human exploration of Mars and inaugurate interplanetary commerce. Basically, GD/NASA (!!) would retrieve water mined on the moons of Mars to the Earth-Moon system for use as propellants and/or life support. Avoiding Earth’s deep gravity well — i.e., not launching the water from Earth but from Mars’ tiny moons — creates a large energy advantage. Although our cost study was promising, it depended on the markets in Earth orbit and/or at the Moon for success, which is still true. Anyway, I sent the concept to Steve and he put it on the cover of Space Calendar’s May 13-15, 1985 issue, which you can see above.

Steve’s basic theme is “Galacticity” …his word for Galaxy Consciousness. It will provide inspiration and future direction. His new (March, 2009) brochure features a “future history” approach in the form of a fascinating timeline out to 2100. For example, his entries include: “2100 — Lifespan average of 120 years based on 1900-2000 60% Longevity Growth from 45 to 75 years…off-Earth population likely to grow exponentially in Free-Space habitats, and throughout CisLunar and Solar System domains…”

Steve’s Galaxy Forum program is exciting and promising. Check it out at www.iloa.org or www.spaceagepub.com.

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