President Obama's call for a halt to Constellation, the project that aims to send astronauts back to the moon by 2020 has generated plenty of coverage. Samples of the news and comment can be seen here, here, and here. For a good summing up of the issues take a look at Michael Robinson's The Death of the Constellation Program.
Showing posts with label space exploration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label space exploration. Show all posts
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Stairway to Mars
It is time to turn astronauts into true explorers again, with Mars as the goal. That's Michael Benson's argument in a recent New York Times opinion piece. Benson is the author of Far Out: A Space-time Chronicle.
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Space exploration
What sort of human space exploration will we see in the next decade? A bold approach that considers exploration as people planting flags on places, or unmanned voyages? A recent essay in USA Today looks at these questions - plenty of comment too. See here for the official NASA vision of the future.
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