Not since Werner Von Braun assisted in the development of the Saturn V rocket after World War II has there been such a fervent push to get a whole new series of propulsion vehicles ready for launch. In just a single year since announcing what they were looking for in crew and cargo transport [...]
Recently, Michael Griffen, the Administrator of NASA released a statement entitled, “Why Explore Space?“ In short he concluded that since it was difficult and expensive to do anything in space, we might as well reach for the brass (or in this case, iron) ring. Since the Challenger disaster of 2003, NASA has been [...]
The Marshal Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama, announced the winning designs for the new Ares I crew launch rocket had been approved by the agency. According to the press release, “The system requirements review confirmed that the Ares I system requirements were complete, validated and responsive to mission requirements.”
What that means [...]
AMarsOdyssey.com launches February 1st to track the first steps in humankind’s return to the exploration of space.
In a surprising speech on January 14th, 2004, President George W. Bush announced a bold new initiative to begin a long process of paving the way for the colonization of our Solar System. Bush said, “We do not [...]
In a 1997 article about the high failure rate of craft sent to the red planet, Donald Neff of Time Magazine half-jokingly suggested there was a Galactic Ghoul that ate Mars probes. One does wonder how it is that missions to Mars until 2007 have had a less than 50% success rate — some call [...]
