How to go — and why: visions of a human future in which we not only endure but prevail
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.
Symposium | Fall 2010
Fall 2010
Symposium
A half-century after Apollo, the agency risks irrelevance. It’s time for a real — and different — mission.
A purpose-driven plan to open the lunar frontier
How space tycoons are bringing back the dream of truly settling the “high frontier” — and how policy can catch up
The 1960s missions to the Moon are a bad template for today’s space program.