Making NASA Great Again
In the Cold War, American spaceflight mattered. It doesn’t anymore, but it could again.
Let the Airlines Compete on Safety
The murder-by-airplane of 149 people last week in the French Alps on Germanwings flight 9525 is a reminder that there are always unintended consequences of measures designed to keep us ...
Boeing Isn’t Getting More NASA Money Because It’s Doing a Better Job than SpaceX
While Taylor Dinerman’s description of this week’s announcements is generally useful, it really isn’t correct to say that Boeing is getting more money than SpaceX for the new contracts to ...
Time to Rethink NASA
Sunday is the 45th anniversary of the first Apollo landing. A little less than three and a half years later, the last men left the moon. As I noted Friday ...
Set Safety Aside — We Need a Way to Get Into Space Without the Russians
Taylor Dinerman had an NRO article recently about the current mess with the space program, both civil and military, as a result of our short-sighted decision to make it so dependent on ...
Capitalism in Space
Ever since the Obama administration’s rollout of its space policy two and a half years ago, conventional ideological wisdom has been turned on its head. An administration that had seemed ...
Newt’s Moon Mines
Political debate about space policy is rarely edifying, especially when it arises not from any interest in the subject but from a hamhanded attempt gain a perceived political advantage. That ...
Blame Congress and Pork, Not NASA
Rory Cooper’s criticism of the space agency today is notable not so much for what it says, but for what it leaves out of the story. Beyond that, it gets ...
The Final Launch
Today’s launch of the Atlantis was the final launch of any Space Shuttle, after a little over 30 years of space voyages for the program. Its final return to Earth, ...