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Mark R. Whittington, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
Recent events in the Middle East and the reaction to them globally suggest that a joint American-Israeli-Arab mission to the moon is needed now more...
The United States and Japan have entered into an agreement that will change the course of space exploration.
History has given megalomania a bad name.
The lunar Zoom call could be part of a worldwide STEM education program related to the Artemis III expedition.
Musk, Bezos and others in the commercial space sector are keen to explore and settle space and take care of Earth.
Starship’s awe-inspiring capacity is without dispute.
Either the United States, and by extension the world, will enjoy a future of limitless possibilities fueled by opening space to business, or it will...
His term as NASA administrator during George H. W. Bush’s presidency was fraught with controversy.
Unlike the moon and asteroids, the answer to that question is not immediately obvious.
Nova-C’s successful landing represents the first success of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program approach to lunar exploration.
Hope doesn’t begin to describe the prospect of adding yet another weapon in the war on cancer.
The idea of commercializing Mars exploration will have profound implications for how NASA handles voyages beyond the Earth-Moon system, even up to the...
If former President Trump wins the 2024 election and carries out his promise to deploy a modern version of an SDI system, he should order the...
Soon, people will walk on the lunar surface, making the moon a new frontier of human endeavor.
If it means that a return to the moon takes longer and costs more, so be it.
The United States military could secure the Earth-moon Lagrange Points — areas where the gravities of the Earth and moon cancel out — against the...
If all goes well, 2024 will mark America’s return to the moon and prove that human beings are still capable of accomplishing great things.
The prospect of the feud delaying or even derailing America’s return to the moon is a threat to national security.
The NASA-Chinese race to the moon has taken on a diplomatic dimension.
Kissinger was instrumental in arranging the world tour by the Apollo 11 astronauts as a way to showcase American democracy, freedom and...
Because of Project Artemis, NASA is eager to find ways for future lunar explorers to grow their own food.
But, in the end, we get a spaceship that will take humankind to the moon, Mars and beyond.
For a long time, Musk has dreamed of setting up a Mars settlement, even going so far as to wish that he might die on the Red Planet “just not on...
The Vulcan Centaur already has some important customers lined up.
Somewhere, the late Arthur C. Clarke must be smiling.
The scope of New Delhi’s space ambition is breathtaking, to put the matter mildly.
Elon Musk has dominated the launching of things and even people into space, and some people think it’s a problem.
One estimate suggests that the riches of the asteroid Psyche may be worth $10 quintillion.
The presence of carbon dioxide is one more piece of evidence that Europa’s subsurface ocean may be an abode of life.
With no space race and no threat of a Chinese space hegemony, supporters of the Artemis program will have to scramble for other reasons to return to...
Two recent events illustrated how Project Artemis has become an instrument of international diplomacy for the United States and how China is trying to...
What caused President Kennedy to switch from racing the Soviets to the moon to proposing a joint Soviet-American moon mission?
NASA already has contracted SpaceX to build a lunar lander based on its massive Starship rocket. Elon Musk dreams of using a fleet of Starships to...