Mars or Bust

More and more I find the beauty of space is more astounding than any artist can imagine here on Earth.  To the right is a fascinating NASA...

I am not so sure the accomplished very much with our current International Space Station, and yet NASA is now proposing a second station. ...

Last week's piece by New York Time's David Brooks, Temerity at the Top , was an interesting article on why America needs more Elo...

Just as astronomy has benefited from private citizens scanning the heavens with their own telescopes or offering some of their computer ca...

  Given all the press criticizing India's plan to visit Mars, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh defending his nation's d...

If you have a few minutes, you should watch the fascinating video from TED where George Dyson describes Project Orion, a planned mission ...

You might think you are watching daughter cells, as as one planet splits into two.  But what you really see are two of Saturn's moon, ...

Earlier today astronaut Neil Armstrong passed away at the age of 82.  His first walk on the moon's surface, an amazing feat regardless...

NASA has decided to name the Curiosity landing site after Ray Bradbury , making the announcement on August 22nd, the day that would have b...

Take a look at this panoramic shot of the Martian surface put together by Andrew Bodrov .  It works best on an iPad or similar device.  I ...

If you are interested in Sally Ride's career and some of her writings, you can find plenty of published material.  Many are geared for...

With all of the attention on NASA's Curiosity, many may have missed India's announcement that it would like to send a spacecraft ...

Just as President Obama used the successful landing of Curiosity to sell the merits of a private sector space program, which really had n...

NASA's Curiosity continues to send fascinating photos of the journey ahead.  Below is a shot of the distant rim of Gale Crater.  ...

We can all breath easy now.  Curiosity is safe and sound on the surface of Mars, landing earlier this morning.  To the right you can see ...

Earlier I noted how the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) already has its own space shuttle program and maybe more sharing of resources cou...

Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, died on Monday at the age of 61.  Ms. Ride's first entered the Earth's orbit via t...

This image is part of the NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection and found at nasaimages.org . Here is the photo's accompanying text:...

Thirty-three years ago on July 11 America's Skylab returned to earth in pieces littering the Indian Ocean and Australia.  First launc...

Even with the demise of NASA's shuttle program, we should remember that the United States has been running a separate shuttle program...