Category: Space exploration
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The beginning of the end for NASA?
This week NASA announced its Next Big Thing: the “Space Launch System,” a heavy-lift vehicle that will provide the basis for a new generation of deep space missions, and renew U.S. launch capability in the post-Shuttle era. It’s an exciting new concept with the potential to take the human race far beyond Low Earth Orbit.…
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So long, farewell, we’ll miss you, and… good riddance?
The Space Shuttle program has come to an end. It accomplished some great things over the past three decades—but I can’t help thinking that we should have chosen a different path into space.
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Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith
What did Apollo mean? And for that matter, what does it mean today, decades later? Andrew Smith chooses to ask those questions, with intriguing results and deeply personal insight.