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NASA’s moon plan too ambitious, Obama panel says – A panel reviewing NASA’s current plans for human space flight will report that there is no...

Expert panel urges NASA to revive futuristic think tank NASA should revive its Institute for Advanced Concepts, a blue-skies idea mill that closed in 2007,...

After reviewing the slides in the presentation “Options and Decisions on Human Exploration Discussion, August 5, 2009, my impression that the decision process ignores a...

Review of US Human Space Flight Plans Committee-Options and Decisions on Human Exploration Discussion August 5, 2009. These are Augustine Panel member Ed Crawley’s Powerpoint...

At the Augustine Committee Meeting in Washington DC on Wednesday Dr. Robert Zubrin talked about the two NASA operating modes, with and without a goal....

Elements of a 21st century space policy by Peter Garretson in The Space Review. 5) Establish a lead agency—preferably ARPA-E—with a clear mandate and initial...

Econominst.com is sponsoring a debate on the question of whether we should return to the Moon, Returning to the moon- This house believes that NASA...

How do we get young Canadians to reach for the stars? by Sumitra Rajagopalan Forty years later, the sequel is being written as the US...

By Veronica Ann Zabala-Aliberto It is only fitting that just before humanity celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the surface of...

Garver served 9 years as Executive Director of the National Space Society. The National Space Society (NSS) is pleased to congratulate retired Marine Major General...

PROVIDE YOUR INPUT TO THE AUGUSTINE COMMISSION This spring, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy asked NASA to launch a commission tasked...

Join the discussion on Human Space Flight. NASA is facing a once-in-a-generation decision about the future of human space flight. We encourage friends of the...

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