Mars or Bust

This past week represents the 25th anniversary of the Challenger explosion, a disaster that struck at the core of the American spirit. It ...

Mental Floss magazine had an interesting article in a recent issue discussing items left behind on the moon by the astronauts, including (1...

Earlier today Space X's  Dragon spacecraft had a very successful launch, orbit, and landing.  This is the beginning of what NASA hope...

It was certainly a fascinating week in terms of life on other planets and even life in other universes.  In terms of the first item, NASA a...

With the elections only a two days away, I started to think about intelligent life elsewhere (if only because I was wondering about its pres...

I am very happy, like everyone else, that the Chilean miners were safely brought to the surface after the mine collapse.  And the United St...

Just yesterday, Miles O'Brien from This Week in Space announced the end of his podcast show.  I wrote about this show last January when...

NASA recently started a partnership with Flickr Commons, called NASA on the Commons , that expands public access to the Agency's many ph...

This new 5-episode series from the Science Channel is ending this week, but I highly recommend "Wonders of the Solar System" to a...

NASA is seeking out museums and other parties that are willing to display the retired shuttles.  The only hitch is that you need to pay abou...

This weekend we had two astronauts on a space walk to repair one of two cooling pumps in the American sector of the International Space Stat...

I was going through some earlier stories in the The Planetary Report , the journal of the Planetary Society , and came across a speech from ...

The news about the NASA Administrator is not good.  I have read of at least three investigations looking into Administrator Charles Bolden...

Soon after my last posting I read in the papers that NASA may use the Atlantis Shuttle one more time.  The Atlantis could fly one more time...

Yesterday the Atlantis Shuttle left the Earth's orbit for the last time. Interestingly enough, the Shuttle was bringing a Russian com...

If the Obama administration is looking for an asteroid worth a human visit, how about 24 Themis? As recently reported in the journal Nature...

With all of this talk about the volcanic ash from Iceland covering Europe, it may be worth remembering the role of Iceland in our first moon...

The Planetary Society released its own statement following President Obama's speech at NASA, stating: The Planetary Society's leade...

Here is the official version of the President's visit to NASA's Kennedy Space Center to discuss his vision for America's space p...

I think back to Columbus and the Vikings when the President mentions bypassing the moon for some more distant goal. Of course, I am all for...