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A new book explores the meaning of the Apollo space program by interviewing the last living astronauts who walked on the moon.

After having the Columbia shuttle disaster and a number of other setbacks, the National Aeronautic and Space Administration is making plans to continue space exploration.

The space shuttle, once thought to be the solution to cheap access to space, will be retired in 2010 having never achieved that goal. However, cheap access to space may yet be accomplished by the private sector.

Some time in the year 2018, if all plans come to fruition, an event will happen for the first time in forty six years. A space craft will land on the Moon and astronauts will walk on the lunar surface.

Forty or so years ago, astronauts had all the glory of the exploration of space. Now, robots are exploring places that currently no astronaut can go. For the past twenty five years, no human being has journeyed beyond low Earth orbit.

NASA proposed to build the follow on to the space shuttle, the Crewed Exploration Vehicle, five years after the shuttle will be retired. NASA is trying to narrow that gap. The solution may be a race to build a commercial space vehicle.

Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon in 1969. Almost 40 years later, millions believe Apollo 11 was a hoax crafted by President Nixon, the CIA, and Stanley Kubrick. Apollo astronauts tell their stories about how real it was.

In the Shadow of the Moon is a celebration of the singular greatest technological feat in history. British director David Singleton scores a particular artistic coup by allowing the astronauts themselves to tell their stories, clear and unvarnished.

Using archival footage and interviews with the surviving astronauts, this documentary examines the Apollo missions in which America shot for the Moon

When President Bush announced the Vision for Space Exploration almost two years ago, he left the question of how to pay for it unanswred. The question is important, as trhe Vision must be sustained for decades.

The 2007 budget presented by the House Republican Study Committee has some good ideas to reduce the deficit. Unfortunately it also has a proposal that would sound the death knell for publicly funded human space flight in the United States.

Constructed as a prototype vehicle for flight and endurance tests on the space shuttle design, the Enterprise paved the way for space flight for shuttles built after her.

In 1969, we landed on the moon, and now, we have accomplished sending a satellite to Mars to collect data and pictures so we can explore this foreign planet.

A look at the NASA program and what should be down about space exploration in America.

The standard for civilian space travel restricts the FAA from regulating amateur space travel until a fatal tragedy occurs. President Bush signed this document in 2004. The reality of space travel arrives with the Virgin Galactic space port in NM.

Apollo 13, Ron Howard's epid telling of a true life space adventure, does not rely on blasters of aliens like other space films. That's because the events told in the movie actually happened.

Until now NASA only had the innocuous name Crew Exploration Vehicle for the next generation of space craft. Though still on the drawing board, NASA finally has christened its new class of ships.

Three major myths about space exploration have arisen and are believed by a great many people. Two of the myths have been around since the beginning of the Space Age. One myth, however, is of more recent vintage.

A group of planetary scientists, former astronauts, and former NASA officials, led by the Planetary Society's Louis Friedman, have come up with a proposal to alter the goals of President Bush's Vision for Space Exploration.

NASA has said that the moon is going to play as very important and prominent part in the future of space exploration and these studies will greatly expand our knowledge of the Moon and the Earth and beyond that to the whole universe.

2007 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Space Age, agreed by most to have begun with the launch Sputnik, on October 4th, 1957. While some are taking stock of the last fifty years, others are wondering what the next fifty years might bring.

People have argued about the need for space flight and complain about the money spent. I give facts about space flight and show why people need to explore beyond what they see.

Since India began pushing space research and exploration in the 70's it has launched a number of successful missions and plans on putting an Indian in space by 2014 and an Indian on the moon by 2020.

With the recent failure of Columbia in 2003, and, of course, Challenger in 1986, many doubts are growing in the hearts of mankind over the safety, reliability, and sensibility of manned space missions.

Three Apollo missions to the Moon, which would have taken place in the early 1970s, were cancelled, largely due to budgetary reasons. If flown,. they would have extended the first era of lunar exploration another two years.

Return to the Moon, edited by the Space Frontier Foundation's Rick Tumlinson, contains a series of essays geared more for the policy wonk than to the engineer or scientist.

Who ran NASA during the go-go 1960s? A new biography by Piers Bizony explains the lofty ambitions of James E. Webb and the race to reach the moon.

The Google Lunar X Prize is a private sector contest sponsored by the X Prize Foundation and funded by the Google Corporation with very little NASA involvement with a prize going to the first private sector team to land a small rover on the Moon.

If you've always wanted to get involved in exploring space without setting aside six to eight years in a major university, then you should consider getting involved in looking for the missing 1999 Mars Polar Lander that NASA is letting the public attempt to find...

NASA is planning to explore other planets farther out in our solar system that will add even more years to the space missions resulting in the astronauts being away from home longer. The space agency has now been put in the position of pondering many issues.

Biographies of Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolov are the launching pad of an analysis of the colossal rocket duel waged between the United States and the Soviet Union in the book "Space Race" written by BBC producer Deborah Cadbury.

What if you had a shuttle launch and nobody came? Well, to hold the public's interest in the space program, NASA shows that it's big thinkers aren't out to launch.

After you've been to the moon and back, what do you do for an encore? The late astronaut, Colonel James B. Irwin in this exclusive interview told that serving God provided an even higher flight than space travel.

The crew will test lunar exploration concepts and medical concerns for long space flights. They'll conduct "moon walks" under the sea, build a communications tower, practice lunar sample collecting and perform tasks to look into space suit design.

The Dish is one of the sweetest, if also the most quirky, homage to the spirit of space exploration ever filmed. The time is July, 1969 and the occasion is the Apollo 11 moon landing.

There was more than one space race taking place in the 1960s. Not only was the United States racing the Soviet Union, but women were racing men into space.

A female space shuttle astronaut pays the price for pursuing her exciting career while trying to hold her family together in this exciting new novel.

Florida is well known for all its tourist attractions. From the beaches to the House of the Mouse, there is a lot to choose from for a visitor. My favorite is the one I visited November 16, the Kennedy Space Center.

Magnificent Desolation is a new, 40-minute 3D IMAX film produced by Tom Hanks which tells the story of the Apollo missions to the Moon.

Recently surveys on public attitudes toward space exploration taken by the Dittmar Associates firm had some disquieting news for NASA. It seems that there is a high level of apathy toward NASA programs on the part of 18 to 25 year olds.

For companies that pursue space travel or space exploration, insurance protection is necessary to safeguard against rare events, including those damages to a third party.

Recently, during an address on the space economy to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the space age, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin made the assertion that China would beat the United States to the Moon.

Recently, at a briefing that took place at the Johnson Space Center, NASA officials announced the strategy the United States will undertake to return to the Moon.

Twelve years hence from the writing of this, the following words may well be heard around the planet: "Aitkin Base here, the Altair has landed." The words will herald the return of humans to the Moon after two thirds of a lifetime.

A look at the engineering developments, processes, and aspects of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo projects, which culminated in first lunar landing in 1969.

In this paper, the meaning of the Space Race and its accomplishments will be explored and discussed within the context of the Cold War and beyond.

The new Photon Laser Thruster produced by the Bae Institute makes it possible in the near future to travel to Mars in one week. The residual fallout from this technology can have immense benefits for commercial, aerospace, and civilian aerospace realms.

What elements of the original Apollo landing suggest it may have been faked? This article attempts to analyze these elements.

The next US President will enter office in January, 2009 with a space program that is in transition. He or she will have the opportunity to shape what could be the Third Age of Space.

The Kennedy Space Center at the Cape is where you will learn all about the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) - their history and the future, and the nature and technology of space exploration.

With a diameter of 3476km, The Moon is Earth’s only natural satellite.

NASA is giving everyone a chance to participate in humanity's return to the moon by including their names aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft heading for lunar orbit late this year.

Moon missions have captured the public's imagination like no other space missions. So why aren't we there now?

If the Vision for Space Exploration survives the coming change of administrations, if the myriad technical challenges of returning to the Moon are met and overcome, and if the project is adequately funded, the next Moon landing will occur in ten to twelve years.

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"This provision will help the United States maintain its global leadership in space by keeping exploration programs on track."

When thinking of women's contribution to the United States of America's space program, the name Sally Ride is most often one of the first to be mentioned.

NASA has selected a contractor team led by the aerospace behemoth Lockheed Martin to build the Orion Moon Ship. The Orion, if plans go to fruition, will carry four astronauts back to the Moon sometime between the years 2015 and 2018.

This is a description and review, along with a little history, of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, in Huntsville, AL.

Feeling disgusted that some of your family or friends aren't paying enough attention to the awe-inspiring strides NASA has been making lately? You're not alone, and something needs to be done to get the public inspired about space again as NASA turns 50...

The space race as most Americans know it was All-American affair. In fact, for most of the race, the Soviets did everything first and better than we did.

It's been nearly 35 years since the last men set foot on the moon, yet the Apollo lunar missions continue to pique our curiosity.

The ascension of the Democrats to control of the Congress in the recent midterm elections has implications for America's space effort. For those who support the effort, the news was potentially mixed

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Recently Robert Bigelow, the Los Vegas hotel tycoon who has been working on an orbiting "space hotel" made a couple of announcements that have shaken up the commercial aerospace world.

Science and science fiction feed one another. Dr. Marc Rayman, Chief Propulsion Engineer at NASA talks real science and sci-fi fun like Star Trek & Star Wars.

The recent death of Dr. James Van Allen, opponent of human space flight, reminds us that the robots vrs astronaut debate is as old as the space age.

This article reviews Space Camp at the Kennedy Space Center.

Atlantis and ISS are within Earth's protective magnetosphere. Beginning in 2011, NASA plans manned lunar launches, then manned and robotic launches to Mars. Astronauts will be at risk for radiation sickness from solar proton storms.

Sometime in the 2030s, if NASA's plans come to fruition, the first human explorers will depart for Mars. It will be a voyage of discovery as challenging and, potentially, as dangerous as the circumnavigation voyages of Maglleon and Drake in the 16th Century.

The actions of the new Congress concerning funding NASA's program to send human explorers to the Moon and Mars can seem puzzling. This is especially so for anyone who is unfamiliar with the capacity of politicians to practice double think.

Some time in the next decade, something will happen that hasn't occurred since President Nixon was in office and the Soviet Union bestrode the world like a colossus.

When Wendy Pendleton wanted to become an astronaut, it was not considered a suitable job for a woman. But that didn't stop her. A Children of Apollo alternate history story.

The 40th Anniversary of the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey, along with the death of Arthur C. Clarke, brings to mind how the Space Age might have been, as opposed to what it has been. I was pleased to come upon a story along those lines entitled Recovering Apollo 8.

A California congressman wants to sell ad space on the space shuttle and other NASA equipment to fill the holes left in the space agencies pockets.

The Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum, named for the astronaut and located in his hometown, is a space honoring the first man to walk on the moon, the history of flight, and Ohio's role in the chronicle of space travel.

The Space Race started in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched SPUTNIC 1, the first manmade satellite, into space on October 4,1957.

My trip to Space Camp as a young teenager ignited a life-long love of space.

While most people think of the future of space travel residing on trips to the Moon and Mars, the really profitable places to visit may well be the asteroids, the solar system's leftovers.

Mars is an example of how many different biases and ideas form our perception and practice of science, as well as how technology helps break through the limitations of human subjectivity.

A recent film documentary produced in France explores curious facts surrounding the Apollo space program, linking it with one of the most brilliant and controversial film makers in history.

Due to budget cutbacks, NASA will be forced to delay the replacement for the space shuttle which is expected to take astronauts back to the moon and eventually to Mars.

It looks increasingly as if people actually will return to the Moon some time late in the next decade. What will people in the future think of the first Moon landing in over a generation?

Wally Schirra was the only astronaut to fly in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. His professionalism is still a shining example today.

On Christmas Eve, 1968, three explorers gave a Christmas present to the world that was much needed. That year had not been a happy one, with wars, riots, assassination, and political unrest. But that Christmas Eve was glorious indeed.

On August 18th, NASA announced the two winners of the Commercial Orbital Transportation Systems (COTS) competition. These companies are Space Explorations Technlogies (SpaceX) and Rocketplane-Kistler (Rp-K).

Voyage is a novel about an expedition to Mars. Nothing unusual about that, buy in this tale the mission takes place in the mid 1980s. That makes Voyage a novel of alternate history, exciting and bitter sweet at the same time.

. Mainly the focus of Goddess based religions, the moon has enraptured men's and women's imaginations like no other heavenly body, except for maybe the sun.

Andrew Smith, the author of Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth, recently published a polemic in the British newspaper The Guardian, entitled Plundering the Moon, that argued against the economic development of the Moon.

Space is a very mysterious place that has some very odd and unusual characteristics not many people know about. The facts and stories about the Moon that I'm going to let you in on are often interesting, amazing, or just plain weird.

What is the true cost of voyaging to the moon? Historian Gerard J. DeGroot makes an accounting in his new book "Dark Side of the Moon" and he doesn't like the bottom line.

Hecate represents the mystic nature worshiped with the full moon.

After several exceedingly wealthy individuals have gone for "space vacations," it seems that an industry will develop providing space travel to the rich.