Mars or Bust

Last week NASA had two reports on extraterrestrial water in our solar system. First, NASA reported that water molecules had been definitely...

Just this past weekend I listened in on Tavis Smiley's radio interview of NASA's new Administrator General Charles Bolden. It was...

The recent study of the Human Space Flight Review Committee , released by NASA, indicates our ambitions are outstripping our resources. To ...

Well, now that we have read the words of President Kennedy, maybe we can find something similarly inspiring from our current President. Or ...

Here is an excerpt from President John Kennedy's May 25, 1961 speech delivered before a joint session of Congress. Take a look at the e...

The United States has moved anti-missile systems to Hawaii to ward off stray North Korean missiles, while the North Korean leader continues ...

I guess I should not be surprised with the number of books out there on the 40th anniversary of our landing a man on the Moon. Its a feat y...

In a recent Wall Street Journal article , Michio Kaku discusses the race for the Moon and how China, Japan and India all have plans to land ...

The New York Times had an interesting interview with Buzz Aldrin in its Sunday magazine. Asked about a return to the Moon, Aldrin thought ...

Just to follow up on an earlier posting , President Obama has named General Charles Bolden as the new Administrator of NASA. According to t...

Brian O'Brien, an Australian physicist, has figured out the secret of moon dust, or what is officially called regolith. Mr. O'Brien ...

Okay, the name is not as memorable as Mars or the ice planet of Hoth, but HD 189733b is the first distant world where traces of carbon dioxi...

One of the names that had been bouncing around as the new Administrator is retired Air Force Major General Scott Gration , one of his adviso...

As of today, if you review the NASA organizational chart you will see an acting Administrator (Christopher Scolese) and a missing Deputy Ad...

Now that the Kepler spacecraft is on its way, we need some way to keep track of all the new planets we hope to discover. Well, do not fear...

It's good to hear NASA's Kepler spacecraft is safely on its way into its 6-year mission to study the heavens and find other Earth-li...

Last month NASA awarded a $3.5 billion cargo contract to Orbital Sciences Corp. and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX). This should ...

Well, while we do not know where the space program fits into the Obama budget priorities (see my earlier posting ), at least we know that NA...

On October 22nd of this year the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched its first probe to our Moon - the Chandrayaan-1. This ...

Okay, I have been gone for awhile, so now that I am back and we have a new President, we must be back on track for Mars, right? Let's t...