June 21st 2004:    SpaceShipOne Go, Go, Go!!!!

"We are heading to orbit sooner than you think," Burt Rutan said. "We do not intend to stay in low-earth orbit for decades. The next 25 years will be a wild ride. ... One that history will note was done for the benefit of everyone."

Thank you Burt! We, of Technologies of the Frontier, are with you and your colleagues, in this great, beautiful day. 

SpaceShipOne Makes History: First Private Manned Mission to Space - Press Release from Scaled Composites - 21 June 2004
SpaceShipOne re-opened the astronautic way, after 36 years! - A. Autino

A Great Day! - Michael Martin Smith

A triumph of ingenuity and willpower - Samuel M. Coniglio, IV

Civilization caught between Mars and Parmalat

Will 2004 be the year of Astronautics? If yes, an Ethics of the free market could finally have birth, together with the space economy. 

Mars, and the Moon

The new US Space Program foresees a permanent base on the Moon within 10 years. For astronautic humanists, the first reaction to this news can only be a joyful one

The X Prize and Mercantile Astronautics

In 1996 a group of space academics and entrepreneurs - Pietro Diamandis and Gregg Maryniak - decided to start an historical enterprise.

An ordinary and ineffective dream

The Prodi's program for the european elections, "Europe, the dreamand the choices", flies low as the sustainable development philosophy, and reflects all the ideological poorness of the Left.

Which language will our European children speak?

How useful will be, for children that today are 5, 10, 13 years old, the ability to speak English like Italian? The answer is simple: it will be essential. But the education system keeps on taking English as a foreign language...

Reflections in margin to the reading of the Robert M. Pirsig's essay-novels [Italian language]

An unprecedented and uncomparable dynamic vision; which leads us to appreciate the pragmatism of the ones which are able to use even Aristotele in a non aristotelic way. And, not by case excel, unexpected, in the par excellence logic technology: software. 

Stories: "An autumn evening" [Italian language]

That evening I reentered from the job before the usual time: only seven thirty. A beautiful autumn sunset colored the west sky. The courtyard of my house was a picture of lights and shades, of gilded dusts and changing colors. So I didn't immediately notice the vehicle. 

Earth is not a Starship!

The most suggestive image, draft by the Club of Rome, was the one of our planet, seen as a spaceship, traveling the cosmos. That image became one of the pillars of the ecologist metaphysics, the so-called "sustainable development".