Continuous human habitation of space has been going on for some time. When the International Space Station really got going, it seemed to mark a special time in history: the time from which people would ALWAYS be in space. In fact, a least one human being has been in space since the end of October [...]

NASA may be forced to ground its first new man-rated booster rocket in more than 40 years, but for now, tests are going forward. The early version of the rocket, Ares 1-X, is scheduled for a two-minute engineering test flight in late October. Because current generation of engineers have little or no experience with such [...]

It’s been—in my eyes—an ugly battle. On one side, we have the old NASA, one that had been struggling for years to return to the moon with an insufficient budget, trying to stay alive. They wanted Constellation, and a new manned lunar landing, even if it had to be scaled down. When it became clear [...]