A New Era?

NASA’s Moon to Mars Program

• Back to the moon by 2024
  • sustainable exploration by 2030
  • public-private partnership
  • testbed for Mars mission

A New Colony?

What would we do on Mars?

Research? Mining? Habitation?

Decolonizing Mars

There’s a matter of inclusion—space exploration is something that we all take part in.

— Lucianne Walkowicz NASA/Library of Congress Astrobiologist

Kalpana Chawla was a hero in India, and like so many kids growing up in the 90s, I wanted to be like her.

Immigrant, engineer, astronaut.

I wrote about her in my college entrance essay. (1/n)

— Gautham Narayan (@gsnarayan) February 1, 2019

The NASA Art Program

Sun Ra (1914-1993)

Trip to Saturn (1936?)

I landed on a planet that I identified as Saturn…
They teleported me and I was down on [a] stage with them.
They had one little antenna on each ear. A little antenna over each eye. They talked to me. I would speak [through music], and the world would listen. That’s what they told me.

Parliament-Funkadelic

The Mothership

Space Agencies Follow Suit

Astro Black

• http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/full-lecture-and-reading-list-from-sun-ras-1971-uc-berkeley-course.html
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q0A53Coqd0

In tomorrow’s world, men will not need artificial instruments such as jets and space ships. In the world of tomorrow, the new man will ‘think’ the place he wants to go, then his mind will take him there.

Lee “Scratch” Perry

George Clinton

“We had put black people in situations nobody ever thought they would be in, like the White House. I figured another place you wouldn’t think black people would be was in outer space. I was a big fan of Star Trek, so we did a thing with a pimp sitting in a spaceship shaped like a Cadillac, and we did all these James Brown-type grooves, but with street talk and ghetto slang. Make my funk the P-Funk. It was all kinda like drug talk. We were the first ones to call the music dope,” he says.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQjgprCVrcQ

The Pale Blue Dot