The Commercialization of Space: The Final Frontier
How the aeronautical industry’s profit motive achieved escape velocity.
How the aeronautical industry’s profit motive achieved escape velocity.
A Dallas man knows all about the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. It’s the people he wonders about.
NASA’s food scientists in Houston keep the astronauts on the International Space Station healthy and well fed. Thermostabilized seafood gumbo, anyone?
More like awwwstronaut, right?
Elon Musk has some big plans.
On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth.
The lovesick antics of diapered astronaut Lisa Nowak are some combination of funny and sad but seemingly not revealing of anything larger, until you realize that her tragic, tabloidy breakdown says everything you need to know about NASA’s many troubles.
Forty years ago, the attention to space exploration was constant. And the faces of the exploration gave rise to a group of larger than life individuals—the astronauts.
“It’s funny: I’ve never been scared on a shuttle mission. It’s just the nature of the job. You’re busy, you’re focused, you’re well trained, and you go, ‘You know, if I’m going to die, there’s nothing I can do about it.’”
In this exclusive excerpt from Stephen Harrigan’s new novel, Challenger Park, a female astronaut confronts mommy-track issues on the way to outer space.
Scripting success.
What astronaut Alan Bean saw on the moon changed his life. Now, with paint and canvas, he’s trying to let the rest of us see it too.
Astronauts used to be dashing pilots. Now they’re doctors, scientists, and . . . sanitary engineers.
Ten years ago the Apollo astronauts, technicians and scientists all, landed on the Moon and touched what poets only dreamed. But that touch changed their lives.