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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 •
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Astronomy •
Space Policy •
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Essay | Fall 2023

Fall 2023

  • Lars Erik Schönander

The Open Sky

How revolutions in space, imaging, and AI could open up satellite surveillance to the masses

Lars Erik Schönander

Essay | Winter 2023

Winter 2023

  • Alex Dubin

The Long Delay Is Nearly Over

After a half-century of going nowhere, in 2022 American space travel got moving again. Here’s what changed — and how to make it stick.

Alex Dubin

Essay | Spring 2022

Spring 2022

  • John Konicki
  • James Pethokoukis

Do Americans Care About Space?

Making sense of six decades of public ambivalence about the final frontier

John Konicki and James Pethokoukis

Essay | Fall 2021

Fall 2021

  • Rand Simberg

Walmart, But for Space

Cheapness isn’t just about rockets — it will change the design of everything we send up.

Rand Simberg

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
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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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Online Exclusive | October 21, 2016

October 21, 2016

  • Robert Zubrin

Colonizing Mars

A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System

Robert Zubrin

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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Online Exclusive | June 10, 2016

June 10, 2016

  • Rand Simberg

Keep the FAA’s Head in the Clouds

Why the Agency Should Not Be Regulating Space

Rand Simberg

Essay | Fall 2012

Fall 2012

  • Rand Simberg

Property Rights in Space

Rand Simberg

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