Marsha Freeman passed away on September 20

Marsha Freeman, the most coherent and passionate student of Krafft A. Ehricke, passed away on September 20. A bout with Covid combined with the deterioration of her Parkinson’s condition were too much for her small physique to handle. The Parkinson had already made it difficult for her to speak, particularly any public speaking, so she couldn’t speak at the SRI event, at the Archenhold Observatory in Berlin, in 2022. Marsha authored hundreds of papers and articles, on the themes of space and U.S. space program, and has been published in Fusion Magazine, 21^st Century Science & Technology, Acta Astronautica, and many others. Her campaign to revive the work and the thought of her dear friend, Krafft Ehricke, led to his last presentation in the  1980s on lunar industrialization at the American Academy of Sciences. Marsha was the author of several books, including “How We Got to the Moon: The Story of the German Space Pioneers”^[1], “Challenges of Human Space Exploration”^[2], and “Krafft Ehricke’s Extraterrestrial Imperative”^[3]. There are also works of Krafft that have never been published, including a major book The Seventh Continent on lunar industrialization. His daughter, who has been the executor of his estate since the passing of his wife some years ago, would like to see this published. It was a project dear to Marsha, but difficult for her to take up in her condition. In the near future, Marsha’s beloved husband Bill Jones will try to find a publisher. That would be such a wonderful memorial to Marsha as well as to Krafft and a treasure to the space community.