Mars or Bust

NASA deserves credit for motivating and financially backing private sector initiatives to travel into space. The space agency started a com...

Hubble still hovers over our planet, but its camera stopped working back in June possibly due to a bad transistor. The telescope/spacecraft...

No, this is not a new reusable rocket designed by Boeing. It is the name of an asteroid that missed the earth by 269,000 miles last month -...

Have you heard of the Alliance to Rescue Civilization (with the cute acronym ARC)? While it may sound a little wild to worry about the day ...

Great news...the delays are over and Discovery is off the ground. Neither weather nor foam would get the better of the shuttle. It is not n...

Okay, let's just get it on the table. Space facts are fascinating, but so are space stories, real or otherwise. Under unreal comes sci...

The Mars Society has announced its 9th Annual International Mars Society Conference. The conference runs from August 3rd through the 6th. S...

It is nice to see the shuttle being readied again. Unfortunately, the events may be delayed as tropical storm Alberto runs across the state...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is in the process of retrieving asteroid samples. The Hayabusa spacecraft , launched in May 2003, ...

Now that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in orbit around the Red Planet (after a 7 month journey) we may learn more about our neighbor....

With NASA announcing the retirement of the Atlantis shuttle by 2008, one wonders where our space program is going next. Sadly, we are down t...

It seems that NASA's Cassini spacecraft , a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency, may hav...

Space Adventures is not the only player in town. Virgin Galactic also offers space enthusiasts the opportunity to travel to the Earth'...

While the traditional route to space orbit has been a long training program at NASA, the private sector is now opening up new opportunties. ...

Remember the famous Buran (Russian for "Snowstorm") shuttle designed by the USSR to compete with NASA's shuttle? In fact, it l...

The Kuiper Belt is the region beyond Neptune containing much of the same material used to form our solar system. Pluto is one of the larg...

NASA's Stardust space capsule is now safely back on Earth after quite a journey. Scientists are now studying the payload (about one teas...

We are off to a great start as we head towards the last planet in the solar system! The 3 billion mile trip to Pluto began yesterday and now...