NASA can’t afford to return to the moon. And it hasn’t a prayer of putting a person on Mars. In fact, it doesn’t have enough budget to continue getting astronauts into space—unless it buys rides on Russian spacecraft. The Augustine Commission is going to tell the truth.  Unvarnished. The United States has chosen to pull [...]

Japan’s Hayabusa space probe, which visited an asteroid and scooped up sample material may not make it back to earth. Launched in May 2003, the spacecraft uses some amazing experimental ion thrusters, which have been failing one by one. It is now down to a single thruster which is in questionable shape. Whether or not [...]

Construction has begun on the world’s first commercial spaceport, in Sierra County, New Mexico. Supported by the New Mexico government to the tune of $200 million, the hope is that it will make the state the leader in the emerging industry of commercial spaceflight. Virgin Galactic plans to use the new spaceport as headquarters of [...]