Mars or Bust

Russia continues to move ahead with its Phobos-Grunt mission, which involves a spacecraft landing on Phobos, studying the moon's surfac...

Robert Zubrin, president of the Mars Society , had some interesting ideas in a recent op-ed piece .  Zubrin believe SpaceX's Falcon-9 he...

I was browsing through a magazine the other day and came across an advertisement for Space Adventures discussing plans for commercial fligh...

NASA finally made its decision about the home of each shuttle .  The results are as follows: -- Atlantis:  Kennedy Space Center Visitor C...

This week we celebrate 50 years of human space travel, with it all starting in Russia.  The April 12, 1961 flight by Yuri Gagarin on the Vos...

The pictures are starting to come in from MESSENGER (see my earlier story ).  The orbiting spacecraft obtained this shot of Mercury's su...

And now to lighten things a little.  We have all read science fiction stories of civilizations on Mars, such as Ray Bradbury's Martian C...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft recently captured something fascinating on Saturn's largest moon - rain showers .  However, Titan's ra...

On St. Patrick's Day NASA's luck was on full display with the successful placement of the MESSENGER spacecraft into Mercury's or...

With the final mission of the Discovery Space Shuttle and its 27 years of service in our space program, we are looking at mothballing a big...

Maybe research on living in space can be done in places other than the International Space Station, such as that cave up the road.  A recent...

This has not been a good year for public funding of anything, and NASA is no exception.  So in addition to a somewhat rudderless mission w...

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...