The Dream of the VOSS is Born

~ image ~ Sedga at the ABC Island in Second Life with an image of the founders of Space Pioneers, Hulda Vyper and Stjarna Szondi, on their Sedgeway scooters at the island in early 2011

Where to begin?

How about the beginning?

That'll do, for a start ~

and for Space Pioneers the start was on the ABC Island in Second Life, where Stjarna and Hulda had been learning how to function in the virtual world, venturing out on expeditions and returning to this safe haven.

ABC stands for Australian Broadcasting Commission and as the national broadcaster in Australia, is owned by the people.

It was in this setting that Space Pioneers was given its launch into the virtual world at the ABC Island on the 13th of August 2011 ~

and also in real life with an article published in the Tasmanian Times on the same day ~

http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php?/weblog/article/the-official-launch-of-the-space-pioneers-and-the-bifrost-campaign/

The leading light of the vision, Stjarna Szondi, had been involved in space advocacy since joining the L5 Society in 1976, when he became very familiar with ideas for building cities in space.

Stjarna was joined in this adventure by a scientist, Hulda Vyper, who stepped on board as the science officer with Space Pioneers.

The simple aim was to solve the problem of building an orbital space settlement in the virtual world, or find where this was happening, where an avatar could walk around the inside of a wheel shaped space settlement.

In space the wheel would be rotating and the outward force would generate gravity on the inside of the wheel.

A virtual orbital space settlement (VOSS) would allow a realistic space environment to be created and used, as if the avatar was in a city in space.

Space Pioneers Stjarna and Hulda were not imagining a large project, just a simple working model that could be used in education, science and for recreation.

When a dream begins with deadly intent, you never know what will happen.

So the dream began.