The Moon is Full of Money: Capitalism in Space
By Pope Brock Nautilus I was slung in my favorite deck chair, drink in hand, having a gawk at the night sky. Andromeda, Pisces … I trawled the constellations, mind […]
By Pope Brock Nautilus I was slung in my favorite deck chair, drink in hand, having a gawk at the night sky. Andromeda, Pisces … I trawled the constellations, mind […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]