Mining Asteroids for a Better Earth
By Philip Metzger Aeon Mining asteroids might seem like the stuff of science fiction, but there are companies and a few governments already working hard to make it real. This should not […]
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Reinvigorating Interest in the Final Frontier
The Economist It may turn out to be a bare and barren rock. The fact that liquid water could be flowing across the surface of the planet just discovered orbiting […]
Inside China’s Unique Space Ambitions
By Namrata Goswami The Diplomat China’s space ambitions and goals are unique. Unlike the space rivalry between the United States and the former USSR, which was mostly about “who got where […]
Farming Solar Power in the Cosmos
By Anna Bitong Take Part Aboard an imaginary space station surrounded by distant planets, an astronaut on the fringes of human life toiled to turn the sun’s rays into electricity […]
The Asian Space Race
By Cody Knipfer The Space Review On April 22, the China National Space Administration announced its plan to launch a robotic Mars mission in 2020, to reach Mars by 2021. The […]
Who Will Protect us From Space Pirates?
By David Axe The Daily Beast With trillions of dollars worth of minerals lying just under the moon’s surface or spinning around the solar system inside asteroids, space mining is […]
Spurring Space Exploration with Market Forces
By Grayson Clary Aeon This is my lunar acre. There are many like it, billions, but this one is mine. At least, it could be for a modest fee: a […]
Earth, Meet Asteroids: Planning for the Worst
By Josh Dean Popular Mechanics On August 18, 2015, an otherwise unexceptional summer Tuesday, NASA issued a press release titled “There is No Asteroid Threatening Earth.” This was an alarming […]
Hitching Rides with Russia
By Charles F. Bolden, Jr. Wired Saturday will mark 1,500 days since the Space Shuttle touched down for the final time. Grounding human spaceflights was always supposed to be temporary as […]
Lawyers in Space
By Benjamin Soloway Foreign Policy Space programs around the world have a long history of productive cooperation. But issues fundamental to uncharted elements of human space exploration, such as regulations […]
