Chinese space officials are rolling out a welcome mat to other nations eager to gain access to their future space station. The Chinese government has designed a multiphase station program aimed at launching a Tiangong 2 space laboratory around 2015, an experimental space station in 2018,...
Golden Spike’s plan is to use existing rockets and emerging commercial crew spacecraft to lower the cost of a two-person expedition to the lunar surface to roughly the price of current robotic missions to the Moon. Golden Spike would only develop new systems — such...
own Hall in NYC on Feb. 27, 2013, Commander Neil deGrasse Tyson and Co-Pilot Eugene Mirman recruited a crack crew: NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, Andrew Chaikin, planetary geologist and author of A Man on the Moon, and,...
Buzz Aldrin, 83, on the secret ceremony he performed on the moon, his three marriages, and the tragedy that led to his space adventures...
On the morning of July 16, 1969, Buzz Aldrin had steak and eggs for breakfast. If cholesterol from such food was supposed to worry him, it didn't. "I knew it was the last hot meal I was going to have for a while that wasn't freeze-dried," he...