Mars or Bust

The Curiosity rover is on its way to Mars after a successful NASA launch yesterday.  In about 8 and a half months the rover will start its ...

I have written in the past about a lack of vision in the U.S. space program, but I did not expect to write about the potential loss of fuel ...

Well, the good news is that Russia has now had it's second International Space Station (ISS) success.  The first was noted in my earlier...

Yesterday's launch of a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan has reestablished our link with the International Space Station.  The Russian resu...

The Wall Street Journal had a recent piece on Elon Musk, the South African born founder of SpaceX, Telsa, and SolarCity.  The article conta...

This past summer astronomers showcased a number of fascinating planetary discoveries, from diamonds in the sky to Star Wars-like home worlds...

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...