When it comes to exploring the cosmos, the Trump administration's quasi-official mantra is "Make America Great in Space Again." But here's the thing: NASA is already great. Right now. NASA has sent ...

The International Space Station photographed from a Crew Dragon in 2021. Credit: NASA As the International Space Station (ISS) nears the end of its service life and the United States commercial space ...

American space science sits at a crossroads, with unmatched technical capability on one side and mounting political and budget pressures on the other. The country that built the Apollo program and the ...

What many of the country’s top policy makers are saying about our country’s space budget behind closed doors needs to be shouted from rooftops. A few rebels have even begun doing something verboten ...

America’s space community is having a phony and destructive debate about whether the U.S. should continue its current focus on returning astronauts to the Moon or switch to Mars. The chattering class ...

Sixty-eight years ago, the Soviet Union shocked the world by launching Sputnik 1 and igniting the space race. Today, new Sputnik moments loom on the horizon, and the stakes are far higher. The country ...

Section 1. Purpose. Superiority in space is a measure of national vision and willpower, and the technologies Americans develop to achieve it contribute substantially to the Nation’s strength, security ...

Veteran newsman and space enthusiast Walter Cronkite will be among the honored guests January 31, 2008, for the 50th Anniversary of America’s first satellite launch and the unveiling of the fully ...

In some ways, 2024 was a great year for space investors. With 138 combined Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launches, SpaceX launched more rockets last year than all the rest of the world combined ...