We will eventually find life in space. That from the crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
“If we push back boundaries far enough, I’m sure eventually we’ll find something out there,” said Mike Foreman, a mission specialist on the Endeavour, which returned to Earth in March.
“Maybe not as evolved as we are, but it’s hard to [...]
Over 100 hours of NASA’s glory days (hopefully there are more to come*) have been digitally remastered for a Discovery Channel documentary. “When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions” will air this summer, but we already have a sneak peak at how amazing it’s going to be. Here is America’s first spacewalk from Gemini 4 [...]
I’ve seen a lot of scientists complaining about how the media reports on science. For the most part, I’m pretty indifferent because I don’t read science stories and because I don’t know a lot about science. However, I do know a little something about space and common sense.
So today when I was reading an ABC [...]
If we don’t put a man on Mars in my lifetime, I’m going to be very disappointed.
We put many men on the moon almost 40 years ago. In the meantime, instead of attempting to do something extraordinary, we’ve pissed our money away on such hits as the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle program. Neither [...]
There’s a really interesting post on the Freakonomics blog. They pose the question “Is Space Exploration Worth the Cost?” Six space gurus were asked to answer.
Keith Cowing’s response caught my eye:
For those who would moan that this money could be “better spent back on Earth,” I would simply say that all of this [...]
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