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Mark R. Whittington, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
The successful launch represents a triumph for the rival rocket company to Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
While SpaceX is not the sole new launch company, it has set the pace for reducing the cost and increasing the reliability of space launches.
Trump could sweeten the deal by making Putin an offer he can’t refuse.
A five-person committee within the Trump transition team is mulling over policy suggestions that represent major changes to the way the space...
2024 saw a number of successful moon landings by Japan, Intuitive Machines, and SpaceX, while the Boeing Starliner stranded two American astronauts...
The iSpace-Magna Petra agreement to start returning that isotope to Earth could be a small, first step that could spark a giant leap for a fusion...
Reaction to Isaacman’s nomination has been all but universally positive.
It turns out that the moon of Saturn has certain advantages for future space colonists not present on the moon or Mars.
Commercial programs financed by NASA have run into some problems, many inflicted by space agency managers.
While SpaceX has revolutionized space launches, vastly decreasing their cost and increasing their reliability, the company founded by Elon Musk has...
Firming up plans to go to Mars would be fine, so long as it is not done at the expense of returning to the moon.
We have a chance for a reset that will enable a space future for the United States and the world.
The resulting Haven-2 facility will be immense and filled with capabilities that could meet the needs of a wide variety of customers, both...
If Bridenstine becomes administrator of NASA again, his first task would be to get the Artemis program on track.
The test flight and its spectacular conclusion was a tiny step in the Starship’s development and a giant leap on the journey back to the moon and...
The moon landing missions planned to take place in the next few months are the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost, the Intuitive Machines IM-2 Nova C and...
Two problems must be solved before SpaceX lands anything on Mars, one technical, one bureaucratic.
The situation sets up an interesting dynamic that the United States and India both can use to their mutual advantage.
The history of space exploration can be said to be written in images as much as in words.
Such a commission would be the perfect vehicle for looking at NASA, an agency with a storied history beset with a slew of problems.
His suggestion that the United States government cut all ties to SpaceX would be an unmitigated disaster for NASA and the United States military.
The sticking point seems to be developing not so much around what space policy should be, but how it is being executed.
The prospect of VIPER becoming more of a public/private partnership illustrates the great advantage of a thriving commercial space sector to pick...
Left alone, the clouds of flying space junk will make low Earth orbit space increasingly hazardous to navigate.
Whoever gets sworn in on Jan. 20 is going to face some monumental challenges going forward.
SpaceX, the company founded by Elon Musk, is beating the competition hands down for NASA contracts.
The space agency has run out of money and, absent a last-minute salvation by Congress or either a commercial or international entity, the mission...
The first crewed flight of the Boeing Starliner to the International Space Station was supposed to last just eight days.
Just as Apollo 11 did, Artemis 3, whenever it happens, will provide a realization that there is still the capacity for greatness in the world.