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Beyond Earth

How to go — and why: visions of a human future in which we not only endure but prevail

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Space Stations •
Moon •
Mars •
Settlement •
NASA •
Astronomy •
Space Policy •
All

Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Robert Zubrin

The Mars Dream Is Back — Here’s How to Make It Actually Happen

Between SpaceX’s breakthroughs and Trump’s inaugural promise, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity. But it can’t be realized as an eccentric’s project or a pork banquet. Here’s a science-driven program that could get astronauts on the Red Planet by 2031.

Robert Zubrin

Essay | Winter 2024

Winter 2024

  • William Boyce

What Is Space For?

Why we gaze and why we should go

William Boyce

Symposium | Fall 2010

Fall 2010

The New U.S. Space Policy

NASA’s Course Correction
Opening Space with a ‘Transorbital Railroad’
In Search of a Conservative Space Policy

Symposium

Human Uniqueness in the Cosmos

Are we an insignificant speck?
Searching for Other Earths
Meaning in a Silent Universe
The Fine-Tuning of Nature’s Laws

Essay | Fall 2019

Fall 2019

  • Robert Zubrin

The Mars Decision

How to show that American democracy can still do great things

Robert Zubrin

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Essay | Summer 2019

Summer 2019

  • Robert Zubrin

NASA’s Next 50 Years

A half-century after Apollo, the agency risks irrelevance. It’s time for a real — and different — mission.

Robert Zubrin

Essay | Summer/Fall 2018

Summer/Fall 2018

  • Robert Zubrin

Moon Direct

A purpose-driven plan to open the lunar frontier

From: The Space Renaissance

Robert Zubrin

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Essay | Summer/Fall 2018

Summer/Fall 2018

  • Rand Simberg

The Return of the Space Visionaries

How space tycoons are bringing back the dream of truly settling the “high frontier” — and how policy can catch up

From: The Space Renaissance

Rand Simberg

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Review | Spring 2017

Spring 2017

  • George Weigel

Grit, Gus, and Glory

Restoring the reputation of an unsung American hero

George Weigel

Essay | Spring/Summer 2016

Spring/Summer 2016

  • Rand Simberg

Getting Over ‘Apolloism’

The 1960s missions to the Moon are a bad template for today’s space program.

Rand Simberg

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