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Return to Tranquility Base in 2010?!
A private firm will attempt to send an unmanned rover to the Apollo 11 landing site by 2010…and win a $20 million dollar prize. The prize won’t, of course, cover the cost of the mission. But Astrobotic Technology Inc. would win the Google Lunar X Prize and beat out the other 13 competitors if successful. [...]
Mars Expert With A Vision
When I met Chris McKay a few years back, at his NASA Ames Research Center office, he was excited. One gets the sense that he’s always excited. And why not? He’s got an exciting job. He works for NASA and he’s an expert on figuring out how to look for life in strange places, especially [...]
Buzz Aldrin: Great American, gets it wrong
Words cannot express how much I admire Buzz Aldrin. But… He seems to think that America faced a choice of going to the moon or going to Mars, and wisely chose the latter. NASA’s new course in space is allegedly to spend time and money doing research and finding the best way to send people [...]
