by SpaceJace | Apr 22, 2021 | Featured News & Views, News
Download The Promise of Space Tourism PDF Article
Written by Jason Klassi and published in the prestigious European magazine “Room, The Space Journal.”
We live in a time of unprecedented possibilities. Every day new discoveries are helping each of us live longer, healthier and happier. Discoveries from space exploration can be found in everything from cell phones, to medicines, to inspiring stories. Space is romantic, dramatic, beautiful, mysterious, hostile, exotic and erotic all at the same time. It has been called everything from the ‘edge of heaven’ to the ‘new frontier’ to the ‘inverted sea’.
On Christmas Eve 1968, a turbulent world looked to the heavens for a unique view of our home planet. Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders had become the first humans ever to leave Earth’s orbit. That evening during a historic, live television broadcast, the world watched as those men took what may well be the single most influential photograph of all time – Earth rising above the stark landscape of the Moon.
Through their eyes, the rest of us saw Earth like we’ve never seen her before…
NASA’s high resolution ‘Earthrise’ image recreates the most iconic Earthrise photo taken by the crew of the Apollo 8 mission as the spacecraft entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve 1968.
For the complete article, download The Promise of Space Tourism PDF
Room, The Space Journal is published by Aerospace International Research Center GmBH in Vienna, Austria and Sodium Media in London, Great Britain
by SpaceJace | Jan 11, 2017 | News
A local bobcat visits my camera trap on the edge of civilization high up in the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking the Bay. As I explore the remote canyons and ridges in the rugged landscape, I notice many similarities between my camera traps and the robotic rovers exploring the surface of Mars.
Bobcat above Santa Monica Bay captured on my trail camera. © Jason Klassi
A local bobcat visits my camera trap high up in the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking the Bay. © Jason Klassi
by SpaceJace | Jun 16, 2015 | News
The Future is Short – Science Fiction in a Flash
Over 70 Amazing Microstories
Check out “The Future is Short.” I was honored to have written the foreword to this outstanding anthology of short stories from a select group of authors and visionaries. From the stories of space travel I’ve heard from the mouths of real astronauts, our future will be everything we can ever imagine. With “The Future is Short,” now we can… in a flash. (more…)
by SpaceJace | Jul 27, 2014 | News
The Everyday Space Traveler featured at Mindshare L.A.’s “Outer Space / Inner Space” event.
Jason Klassi participates in Mindshare L.A.’s event “Outer Space / Inner Space” on June 25th at the futuristic Cross Campus facility. Copies of his award-winning book The Everyday Space Traveler were featured.
The evening started when Doug Campbell, co-founder of Mindshare L.A., brilliantly MC’d the illuminating event with a relevant opening homage to Isaac Newton.
Presenters included Liana Bandziulis, a journalist with WIRED Magazine speaking about Data Mining YOUR World, Seth Dorfman, a Postdoctoral Scientist from UCLA asking Why Plasmas Are “Hot Stuff” and Ashley Booth, an Oceanographer exploring the inner space of Altering Consciousness and Perception.
Cross Campus is an engine of creativity and innovation, housed at their state-of–the-art space in the heart of Santa Monica with a goal to inspire creative collisions through space design, learning platforms, and extraordinary events, fostering member-driven collaboration that ultimately leads to game changing ideas and enterprises.
For more event images go to Mindshare’s Facebook page.
Image Caption: Jason Klassi at Mindshare L.A.’s “Outer Space / Inner Space” event featuring his award-winning book The Everyday Space Traveler with a foreword by Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin.
by SpaceJace | Jul 1, 2013 | News
The Everyday Space Traveler honored with “Book of the Year” Award
The Everyday Space Traveler was recently honored with a Book of the Year Award from Foreword Reviews. That makes 3 awards this year.
Nautilus “GRAND PRIZE” Book Award
The Everyday Space Traveler also won the Nautilus Grand Prize for Young Adult Non-Fiction and was voted one of three “Best-In-Show”. We are honored to be among the winners of Nautilus’ Better Books for a Better World. Nautilusbookawards.com 
Benjamin Franklin Award
The Everyday Space Traveler was also awarded the Silver Medal in the Benjamin Franklin Awards from the Independent Book Publisher’s Association. Named in honor of America’s most cherished publisher/printer, the Benjamin Franklin Award™ recognizes excellence in independent publishing. We congratulate Gold Medal Winner Jean-Michel Cousteau and Ocean Publishing.
