1/28/22: Reading, with updates also

     AGENDA AND MINUTES

1. Updates:

• VJB research. Updating a draft for Feb. 24 deadline. Sent a partial draft today.
• PT research. Expect to finish SLR in a couple of weeks.
• News. Burned out rocket will crash into the Moon. 
• Women in space project. 
• Students needing projects?

2. Reading and discussion:

• de Alcantara and Martens 2019. We finished up to the 4th paragraph in Section 5, so we will start there next time and maybe finish the paper.
• Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology. Let's find out more about it.
• A background paper related to the women in space project: see SpaceTravelMetric-b6-5-16\PapersAndPresentations\femaleAstronauts\relatedArticles 
• One of McDowell's yearly reports, available on the website.
• https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/techno-optimism-for-2022
• Future possibility: https://ourworldindata.org/technological-progress; Goldin et al., The Productivity Paradox, 2019.
• James Pethokoukis, https://fasterplease.substack.com/, tech foresight blog by former Jeopardy! champ; Chad Jones, https://web.stanford.edu/~chadj/, writes about endogenous growth theory.
• We found that the paper at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40896-1_3 seems like a good paper for us to read.
• MH suggests a short book called Future Spaceflight Meditations, a cosmist perspective, by Jiulio Prisco, physicist formerly with the ESA.
• MH suggests Pantelis Koutroumpis, The Productivity Paradox, a report.
• Some interesting videos are at the Kartik Gada channel such as at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuRX67CJhaOT98Jdjh85CEQ which we discussed previously.

• For general reference here are some generic questions about articles (and videos):
• What is the source?
• What is the most significant advance in the human knowledge presented in the paper?
• Why is that advance important?
• What important questions arise from the paper for future research?
• What important questions would it be nice if the paper answered, but does not answer?
• What does the paper present that is novel (no one else has provided that before)?
• What is the relevance of the paper to our satellite research goals?
• Questions from the group?