President Trump called for “unlocking the mysteries of space” in his inaugural address and then envisioned “American footprints on distant worlds” in his speech before a Joint Session of Congress. Addressing a crowd at the Kennedy Space Center this summer, Vice President Pence confidently stated...
The new space race is on. "We can establish permanent habitats on Mars by 2039, and I have a plan to achieve it." So says Dr. Buzz Aldrin, best known for being one of the first two humans to walk on the Moon when, on 16...
The Quest For Another Earth Humankind is eager to step out into the cosmos and wander across the deserted plains of the Red Planet. According to most reports, Elon Musk is leading the waywith SpaceX; however, a number of other orginizations—NASA, China’s Space Agency, The Mars Society—are...
Forty-eight years ago, on July 20, 1969, I know exactly where I was: standing on the Moon with my fellow space traveler, Neil Armstrong. Our Apollo 11 colleague, Mike Collins, was circling high above the barren lunar landscape I described as “magnificent desolation.” America’s Apollo program...