Mars or Bust

I bumped into an ad for the Spacefest 2007 conference in Mesa, Arizona. It actually looks like an interesting weekend of events. For inst...

Yes, our invincible, intergalactic fleet has been grounded again by snowballs. Okay, hail, but still pretty sad. The Atlantis shuttle is s...

Japan has announced that its long delayed Moon mission may be scrapped. According to a MSNBC story, the Lunar-A probe, designed to place tw...

NASA hopes to have humans landing on the Moon by 2020 and occupying the surface by 2024, at least for a week at a time. The base would be l...

While some of us are concerned about water on Mars, the Great Space Race with China, and other mighty issues, the press seems to be quite co...

The Planetary Society continues with its SOS campaign. According to the Society's site, they recently delivered a petition containing ...

I am glad to read that Discovery had another successful mission to the International Space Station last December. However, I am still puzzl...

Now that the Hubble has been saved (read more here ) until 2012, we will not go blind anytime soon. But I recently read that the next genera...

So, NASA and Google are cooperating. Does this mean more NASA work with some extra money, or less openness with the space program? Only ti...

The French and European Space Agency have plans to launch the COROT spacecraft in December to look for exoplanets, or planets outside of ou...

The Mars Global Surveyor went quiet on November 2nd, and the chance of restoring communications is slim. The spacecraft has been circling M...

Fortunately, the Atlantis crew is back in Florida getting ready for their delayed flight. After Ernesto was downgraded to a tropical storm...

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...