Perhaps no election is more important to the future of the American Space Program than this one. Americans will have a difficult decision to make with pressing issues on many fronts, but buried in those issues is the very fate of the space program. During the late sixties, no...

Fifty years ago this October Sputnik became the first human made object to leave the bonds of earth and reach space. Back then our televisions were black and white, World War II was still fresh in our minds, and computers for the masses were 25 years away. Our knowledge...

I had the opportunity last night to hear John Dobson, the father of sidewalk astronomy lead a discussion with an audience of amateur astronomers and space enthusiasts. Despite being ninety-two years old Mr. Dobson demonstrated the passion and acuity of a man much younger. He spoke on his theories...

On August 13, 2007 Time.com published an article called “Endeavour, What Now”. Throughout the mission of STS-118 there has been an endless stream of reports by journalists that reflect how uninformed the press is about the Space Shuttle and the space program. Jeffrey Klueger’s Time.com article ends by saying...

Three pioneers of the new space age gave their lives as the sun was rising on the era of private space travel. We have learned that at least for now there is no such thing as a routine test and those individuals will not be remembered as the first...

Why haven’t we gone back to the moon? or landed on Mars? Why 38 years after first landing on the Moon and 35 years since we last set foot on another world have we not left low Earth orbit with a manned craft? The answer lies in the troubled...

Where does the myth come from that Americans don’t care or aren’t interested in the space program? I recently went down to the Kennedy Space Center to view the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on June 8th. The launch was scheduled for 7:38 and I got to the...

China announced today a new heavy lift launch vehicle capable of lifting a space station or propelling astronauts to the moon. The target launch date is 2011. China’s space program garners a lot of attention. Each announcement seems to convey a country that just isn’t satisfied with getting a...