The Old Guard & The New Space Age
The Old Guard & The New Space Age Contents Sanity Checks The Role Of Oversight Fortifying Our Teams A New Era What Needs To Happen? Estimation Of Effort Our Space Future Civilizing The New Wild West __ One of our strengths as humans is the ability to evaluate the future and make plans. It’s how we have civilizations, train schedules, tiered prizes for ugly sweater contests, elections … You get the idea. We look ahead. We estimate what will be needed. We prepare. Not always perfectly, of course, sometimes quite horribly, but the fact that an Empire State Building exists in New York City – or that a New York City exists at all – would seem to speak to the notion that, mostly, we’re pretty damn good at figuring out how to do stuff. When it comes to space a storm is brewing. One we may not be planning well enough for. A wave we need to get ahead of. Many are aware of it. Many are pushing for action. It’s time to give it the full focus of our attention it deserves. It’s time to ap...