In a media teleconference last week, NASA’s Acting Associate Administrator for International and Interagency Relations Mike Gold, and Director of Commercial Spaceflight Development Phil McAlister announced that two U.S. companies, Lunar Outpost of Golden, Colorado, and Masten Space Systems of…
This week, NASA selected four private companies to collect lunar resources to further its goals of landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. In a distinctly effervescent teleconference, NASA Acting Associate Administrator Mike Gold announced…
Thanks to a statement from a former Hunter Biden associate and leaked emails that were never supposed to see the light of day, we now know that former Vice President Joe Biden may have been involved in his son’s business dealings with…
Mars. I’m launching July 30, 2020, on an Atlas V-451 rocket, from Cape Canaveral. Yep — got my boarding pass and everything. We’ll achieve Earth orbit and hurtle out into space on a seven-month voyage — dodge her two moons,…
Assuming the weather holds up, this Saturday at 3:22 p.m. EDT will mark the first humans to be delivered into space from American soil since 2011. The launch, which was originally scheduled for this Wednesday but delayed due to thunderstorm…
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy boldly declared that the United States would send a man to the moon and safely bring him home before the end of that decade. Apollo 11 accomplished that mission in 1969. In the process, the names Neil Armstrong,…
Fifty years ago tonight, there were about 200 of us crowded around a small black and white television set at Otis Air Force Base, Massachusetts. We were Air Force ROTC cadets attending the four-week summer camp between our junior and…
Tinsel Town is worried about American jingoism. In First Man, a 2018 movie about Neil Armstrong, the first man to step onto the moon, Hollywood has expurgated the planting of the American flag. That image, witnessed by about 15 percent…
Man ascended to the glorious heavens and sank to the murky depths 50 years ago this weekend. The juxtaposition serves as a metaphor for modern times, when our technology races to infinity and beyond as our behavior periodically knuckle-drags toward…