I saw the future in my viewing of Ridley Scott’s “The Martian,” an entertaining, exciting and thought-provoking science “fiction” film. The challenge ahead is to transform that fiction into fact. In my mind, there’s another comforting and compelling fact about “The Martian.” It is not a...
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and astronaut Buzz Aldrin talk to “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson about their shared passion for space exploration, the government’s goals for Mars and more ...
NASA and the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute — known as America Makes — are holding a new $2.25 million competition to design and build a 3-D printed habitat for deep space exploration, including the agency’s journey to Mars. ...
US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to land on the moon in 1969. Since then, there's been much talk of the next great space leap: putting an astronaut on Mars. One of the leading advocates of this is Buzz Aldrin...
Over the decades, the planet Mars has been flown by, circled, crashed into, pinged by radar, parachuted onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled about and drilled into, smelled, baked, and even laser zapped. What’s missing here? The footprints of the first settlers! ...