Meeting 12/15/17: Lots of readings!

Today we discussed the following articles:

• 1. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2015/11/08/01-its-sad-that-human-space-exploration-has-stalled.html (You will have to keep refreshing it as you read, because after a few seconds it obscures the page with a popup.)
  
• 2. https://www.quora.com/Has-the-pace-of-progress-in-space-exploration-slowed-since-the-Space-Race
• 3. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/why-2015-was-a-major-year-for-space-exploration/
• 4. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/which-countries-spend-the-most-on-space-exploration/

HA plans to update our source document with comments that were made during the discussion. Thanks!

For next meeting, we will read and discuss the following articles, found by HA:

• 1. https://venturebeat.com/2014/10/05/how-big-data-is-fueling-a-new-age-in-space-exploration/
• 2. https://analyticsindiamag.com/big-data-advances-fuelling-space-exploration/
• 3. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7389270/  (Really Really Big Data: NASA at the forefront of Analytics) It needs pay acess.
• 4. https://www.edvancer.in/out-of-the-world-nasas-space-probes-and-how-big-data-is-driving-space-explorations/

RS suggests the following article:

• https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-space-exploration-go-exponential

VK sent two articles about space investment:

• https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/1605b6e32d867f4d (that link will probably only work for DB but we can fix that as needed)

VK also sent two readings regarding human space flight:

• 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_spaceflight
• 2) https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Statlog+(Shuttle)