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Debate: Obama's Space Privatization Plan Is a Costly Mistake

(April 15) -- President Barack Obama is in Florida today to argue his case for privatizing the human spaceflight program. It will be a tough sell. The president's vision for privatizing American space exploration may sound appealing initially, but it rests on flawed assumptions and could result in the United States...

Debate: A Space Program for the Rest of Us

(April 15) -- While my admiration for and gratitude to Neil Armstrong and other astronauts and NASA officials from the Apollo era know no bounds, that doesn't mean they are the first people to whom I would go for space policy advice. The job of an astronaut or a flight director requires a certain skill set, but it doesn't...

NASA Chief Takes Heat for Not Shooting for Moon

WASHINGTON (Feb. 2) – NASA Administrator Charles Bolden won a Distinguished Flying Cross as a combat pilot in Vietnam, but this week he's caught in a different kind of crossfire. Bolden inherited a program to return to the moon a full half-century after the first lunar program. On Monday, the White House canceled...

Private Firms Look to Cash In on NASA Cuts

(Feb. 1) – With NASA's Constellation program cut from the budget President Obama proposed Monday, private companies have the chance to play a bigger role in the next space race. While the budget request for fiscal year 2011 eliminates the Constellation program – which would have replaced the space shuttle with...

The Challenger Tragedy: 24 Years Later

(Jan. 28) – "Obviously a major malfunction." Those words, spoken by NASA public affairs officer Steve Nesbitt 24 years ago today, signaled one of the worst disasters in the history of American spaceflight: the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger during launch and the loss of all seven members of its flight...