Highlights of ISDC

So many good presentations at last week's International Space Development Conference, and I couldn't be at many of them, so I'll just link to Clark Lindsey's summary, which links to articles about many of the highlights.

Keith Cowing reports on Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart's call for a launch of a transponder/probe to the asteroid 2004MN4, which will make a close approach to Earth in April 2029, to determine if it will pose a threat of impact on subsequent encounters a few years later.

Finally, while not commenting specifically on this conference, writer Robert Zimmerman discusses the blooming space renaissance and offers an explanation here.