Mars or Bust

While the United States recovers from problems with access to the International Space Station (ISS), yesterday China launched a mock compo...

In general, the public's mood about our moon has been "been there, done that."  The Apollo missions gave us the opportunity to...

So what are we to make of the August 24th failure of Blue Origin's spacecraft failure ?  We should not be surprised that spacecraft wi...

The recent failure of Russia's Soyuz-U rocket five minutes into its mission just ripped a hole in plans to rely on other countries to s...

The other week NASA awarded $10 million in contracts to seven firms to support the development of cargo flights to the International Space ...

With the human role in space being curtailed by the last Shuttle mission, we will need to keep interest alive through a variety of robotic m...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory continues to share great images of Mars, and this particular video helps you to realize how amazing th...

As I noted in my last piece , Shuttle mission cost estimates range from $450 million and $1.5 billion per launch.  What did we get for this ...

With the final Shuttle flight underway, the America space program is now reliant on the Russians for trips to the International Space Statio...

Last October I wrote that a video podcast I enjoyed, This Week in Space , had run out of steam and ceased production.  Well, over time I fou...

It was news to me that NASA has been contracting for art since the 1960s, including works from artists such as Andy Warhol and Annie Leibovi...

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...