#nasa
# politics
NASA's ability to hit ambitious future targets has to rely on private companies willing and eager to get to space, not traditional defense contractors.
# space
NASA is looking to fix its problems and gear up for sustainable missions. But the actual numbers leave much to be desired.
# space
If NASA was funded as well as most Americans think it is, we would live in an amazing world straight out of our retrofuturistic dreams.
# space
If we'll ever meaningfully explore space, the first thing we need is a vision from our leaders that stretches beyond just winning the next election.
# space
Time calls the Ares rocket one of this year's best inventions. The problem is that nothing about Ares is actually new or inventive...
# space
America won the space race and the Cold War. Now, its access to space will be controlled by the whims of the country it defeated thanks to its myopic politicians.
# space
Current plans for our return to the Moon seem a little too vague to be successful.
# space
NASA is trying to replay history at the cost of keeping its launch systems and exploration programs stagnant.
# space
Thanks to budget constraints and slow-walking replacement vehicles, NASA is about to left without a way to get humans in orbit without paying Russia for a ride.
# space
Celebrating Apollo 11's lunar landing isn't just celebrating an American triumph. It's celebrating how far humanity can go and how much it can do.
# space
Colony ships wouldn't just be small cities floating through space. They could become their own little, self-contained worlds.
# space
NASA is trying to protect its budget from finance wonks by talking like them.
# space
Even with a pro-science administration, NASA should still be worried about its funding as apathy to science runs deep among politicians.
# space
NASA is going to bat for its new rocket, even if it doesn't seem to be the best idea for it to do so.
# space
No matter how much we try to move forward with space exploration, we're being held back.
