We need to go back.
We are long overdue for a return trip. Boeing, I’m looking at you. At this rate, Elon Musk or Jeff…
Tom Wolfe talked about how the Mercury astronauts had “that righteous stuff.” The swagger of Al Shepherd, Deke Slayton, and…
Most books about NASA focus on the trailblazing programs like Mercury and Apollo. They talk about the moonwalkers and the…
They’re all gone now, the Mercury 7. John Glenn died in late 2016, and knowledge of the first rides taken…
It’s a common theme in science fiction, particularly in Altered Carbon and Robinson’s Mars Trilogy. Humans find a way to stop…
The Apollo program captured the world’s imagination. And it seemed to all that a golden age of human exploration had…
When veteran astronaut Scott Kelly was selected for NASA’s first year-long mission in orbit, he opted to read the book Endurance:…
In Sapiens, historian Yuval Noah Harari recounts the history of Earth’s most dominant species. History began, he asserted, with the cognitive…