OUTER AND INNER SPACE EXPLORATIONS

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OUTER AND INNER SPACE EXPLORATIONS
UNDERSTANDING FRONTIER EXPERIENCES
IMPLICATIONS FOR HUMAN GROWTH Dr. Kenneth
J. Cox kcox12_at_houston.rr.com January 2004
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DANCE OF THE PERMANENT WHITE WATER MANAGEMENT

• THE FACTS
• We are living through a time of rapid, complex
  and fundamental change
• THE CHALLENGE FOR HUMANS
• Create a desired vision and provide leadership
  to attain that vision within diverse turbulent
  environments
• THE RESPONSE
• Individuals and organizations must adapt to
  emerging levels of complex and chaotic systems in
  order to mature relationships, and to identify
  and understand significant patterns of change

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DANCE OF THE PERMANENT WHITE WATER MANAGEMENT
(CONT)

• THE FOCUS
• Integrity, congruence and discipline
• Intention, leadership and insight
• Adapting, unifying, sharing and risk taking
• Listening, looking, intuiting and reflecting
• Visioning, creating, innovating and inner growing
  

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THE APOLLO EXPERIENCE - A HISTORICAL CENTRAL
PROJECT

• Patterns of human experience
• Impact of weightlessness, silence and darkness
• An event horizon occurred when humanity
  experienced the vastness of outer space on the
  return lunar trip by viewing the earth as a
  beautiful blue and green silver planet floating
  in the womb of the cosmos
• Then, the vastness of inner space of the mind
  opened and was manifest as a higher level
  awareness and compassion for the well-being of
  the earth
• An enhanced understanding that everything is
  interconnected and interrelated began to unfold

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POST-APOLLO CHALLENGE

• Build upon Apollo mission experiences and broad
  international science activities
• View defense, civil, and commercial domains as
  prime elements leading to the development of
  outer space
• Search for opportunities to interweave science,
  exploration, technology, development, education
  and infrastructure activities with
• Political and legal institutions
• Ecological sustainable systems
• Multidimensional community development
• In-depth understanding of human history
• Aesthetic systems - art, writing, music and
  movement

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AN EXPANDED PERCEPTION OF SPACE

• Terrestrial space - Involving the basic
  elements of earth, fire, water and air
• Inner space - Individual aware beings at the mind
  level
• Outer/under space Above and below the earths
  natural surfaces
• Relationship space - Aware beings interacting
  with each other, other life forms and all parts
  of the living universe
• Relationship space is an essential frontier
• Requires an understanding of relationships
  between parts and the whole of systems
• Modified universal symbols, myths, art and
  language forms will naturally evolve

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A VIEWPOINT ON SPACE

• Transform the space program into an earth/space
  movement
• Settlements and personal adventure
• Science, commerce and ecology
• Holistic well being for elements of the earth
• Primary Domains
• Space Exploration - Destiny Driven
• Space Science - Discovery Driven
• Space Defense - Threat Driven
• Space Economics Business/Market Driven
• Space Settlements - Human Genes Driven
• Earth/Space Sustainability - Survival Driven
• Space Culture Aesthetics Driven

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THIRD MILLENNIUM STRATEGIC INTENTION

• Seek meaning and awareness for humankind in the
  ultimate frontiers of earth/space
• Live, work, and prosper in multiple solar system
  space communities
• Develop a human-energy presence beyond our local
  galactic universe
• Openly interact with Whats out there in the
  frontiers of outer space
• Nurture the growth of consciousness in earth/space

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SPACE CHALLENGES
Drive Towards An Integral Space Frontier
Strategy

• Search for origins and life forms
• Sustain human life on the frontiers
• Understand dynamics between living entities and
  the regenerating universe
• Develop symbiotic relationships between humans
  and intelligent machines
• Evolve a frontier science of open systems

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ULTIMATE FRONTIERS

• Span of life activities - cellular to stellar
• Major domains
• Earth terrestrial space
• Inner space - human mind
• Outer and under space
• Relationship space
• Understand prime environmental drivers
• Human friendly abundant water, air and fire
• Human hostile radiation, gravity, vacuum and
  temperature/pressure extremes
• Future potentials for renaissance evolution
• Expanding into broader horizons
• Providing stewardship for future generations
• Discovering higher ground while enabling common
  ground

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NON-LINEAR SCIENCE

• Non-linear science involves dynamic behavior of
  complex systems
• Characteristics associated with living systems
• Self organization processes
• Attractors that underlie and govern transitional
  and transformational behavior
• Bifurcation points where transformational change
  occur, leading to new life
• Chaos where irregular, unpredictable motions
  occur within a complex system
• Periodic motion that exhibits both simple and
  complex cycles
• Fractals where entities replicate, and discard
  things that are not their true essence self

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FUTURE INFLUENCE FACTORS

• Simultaneously develop local/regional/national/glo
  bal/universal commerce
• Shift from nation state Cold Warriors to market
  state Trade Negotiators
• Expand into information space with boundless
  communications
• Grow into enhanced levels of human mobility
• Expand open systems
• Fluid and layered boundaries
• Flexible human identities
• Multi-dimensional realms of reality

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SPACE DEVELOPMENT

• Significant need to mature private and public
  sector relationships
• Establish plausible combinations of investment
  energies
• Initiate sensible public regulatory functions
• Develop vibrant and new methods of collaboration
• Understand potentials for frontier patterns of
  growth
• Future areas of focus
• Human capital systems involving research and
  engineering, education and development of diverse
  work force skills
• Policies to encourage multiple levels of free
  market businesses to effectively participate in
  the space frontier ventures

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MARKET DRIVEN STRATEGIES FOR VARYING ENVIRONMENTS

• Friendly environment - commercial markets with
  high volume
• Terrestrial applications
• Prime driver private sector
• Secondary driver public sector
• Semi-hostile environment - commercial markets
  with moderate volume
• Atmosphere and under water applications
• Drivers blend of private and public sectors
• Hostile environment - commercial markets with low
  volume
• Outer space and deep under earth applications
• Prime driver public sector
• Secondary driver private sector

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STRATEGIC VIEWPOINTS

• Earth/space should be understood from a top down
  perspective similar to systems engineering, an
  innovative global business or an
  interdisciplinary academic institution
• Nanoscale technology, together with cosmic
  stellar technology will be key for future
  innovation
• Technologies of the small
• Technologies of the large
• Critical areas to better understand
• Surface interactions and layering concepts
• Fabrication under different environments
  gravity, radiation, temperature and pressure
• Dark matter

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EARTH/SPACE TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS

• Human health and safety
• Nuclear propulsion and power
• Human/robotic operations - mining and
  constructing
• Energy harvesting systems thermal electrics
• Manufacturing and fabrication
• Hostile environment space suits and local
  transport systems
• Solar power systems
• Magneto-plasma propulsion
• Habitation and transportation systems
• Nano scale research and technology
• Cosmic scale research and technology

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NEAR FRONTIER SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE

• Initiate a phased development of near earth
  outposts including transportation hubs,
  maintenance facilities, platforms, and science
  and technology research facilities
• Develop upper stage vehicles for near earth
  transportation leading to exploration missions
• Mix and match human, cargo and robotic upper
  stage systems with available booster systems
• Perform operational science and technology tasks
  within the near earth environment

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BEYOND EARTH TO THE STARS

• Building a near earth infrastructure is key to
  robotic and human exploration and development of
  the inner solar system
• Collaborating between the civil, defense, and
  commercial space elements is vital
• Multidimensional communication, intelligence,
  learning, knowledge, wisdom and awareness are
  also key to opening additional frontiers of space
• Frontier strategies
• Opportunities for everyone
• Protect humans and other living entities
• Live off the land where feasible
• Progressively improve self sustainability

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UNFOLDING OF FRONTIERS

• Search for concepts of wholeness
• Evolve basic understanding of layering and
  connections
• Continue to expand a relevant science of reality
• External science involves matter
• Internal science involves mind
• Relationship science involves bridging and
  meaning

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SCENARIO PLANNING PROCESS

• Scenarios are one of the most effective tools
  available for systematically influencing and
  helping to shape the future
• Normative scenario planning is a way to develop
  imagination by telling a set of stories about
  what is happening, might happen and what is
  wanted to happen in the future
• These stories provide viable images of the future
  
• A well developed scenario process will produce a
  spectrum of plausible futures that effectively
  bracket the horizon
• Relevant stories are generally emergent and fact
  oriented, and help to evoke a set of choices

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EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIP SPACE

• Outer space adventures provide event horizons
  with extended points of view
• A cultural vitality council should be considered
  in order to support the development of
  harmonistic living relationships in the harsh
  space environments
• Such a council could solicit broad viewpoints and
  perspectives from anthropologists, psychologists,
  sociologists, philosophers, artists, writers,
  biologists, ecologists, folklorists, spiritual
  leaders, craft persons, historians and many
  others

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TRANSFORMATION AND TRANSITION

• We must be pro-active in shaping the future for
  the space frontier elements
• Past driving forces have been intellectual
  curiosity, economics, defense, and religion
• Future driving forces will add universal
  entrepreneurs, high frontier adventurers
  including explorer artists and authors, and
  searchers for space resources.
• Relationship space dealing with human capital
  will be an emerging cultural frontier
• We also need to better understand the
  multi-generational planning from the past,
  including building cathedrals, pyramids and
  sacred sites

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A DYNAMIC MODEL FOR THE REGENERATING UNIVERSE

• Develop vision around earth/space frontiers
• Establish innovative approaches for research
• Provide concrete actions for space development
• Invest in revolutionary science and technology
• Construct evolutionary space infrastructure
• Develop viable exploitation activities
• Invest in mature human capital
• Understand viable options for establishing
  communities in outer space

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BACKUP SLIDES

• Celebrations
• Quotations

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CELEBRATIONS - RECEIVING, HAVING AND GIVING

• The dynamics of relationship space will be
  energized by
• Knowledge from verifiable measurements
• Learning and wisdom from engaged experiences
• Understanding from higher levels of awareness
• The matriculation of humanity will be enhanced as
  individuals
• Learn to grow into a mature relationship with the
  flowing universe
• Serve a cause greater than ones self
• Discover who we are as we travel to broadened
  horizons

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CELEBRATIONS - DOING
It is not the critic who counts not the man who
points out how the strong man stumbles, or where
the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in
the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat
and blood who strives valiantly who errs, and
comes short again and again, because there is no
effort without error and shortcoming but who
does actually strive to do the deeds who knows
the great enthusiasms, the great devotions who
spends himself in a worthy cause who at the best
knows in the end the triumph of high
achievements, and who at worst, if he fails, at
least fails while daring greatly, so that his
place shall never be with those cold and timid
souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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CELEBRATIONS - BEING

• Live - to be well remembered
• Act - to be well evoked
• Love - to be well missed
• From the Mexican celebration of the day of the
  dead

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THE CREATIVE MASTER

• The master in the art of living makes little
  distinction between his work and his play, his
  labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his
  information and his recreation, his life and his
  religion.
• He hardly knows which is which. He simply
  pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he
  does, leaving others to decide whether he is
  working or playing. To him, he is always doing
  both.
• James Michener

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ENDPOINT

• We shall not cease from exploration
• and the end of all our exploring
• will be to arrive where we started
• and know the place for the first time
• T.S. Eliot

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A TINY SEED

• How can you think you are but a tiny seed, when
  within you are the secrets of the universe?
• Georgia Lesley

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FUTURE TASK

• As for the future, your task is not to foresee,
  but to enable it
• Antoine de
  Saint-Exupery