#space travel
# space
Ads for extrasolar attractions and preemptively naming cities on an alien world are all well and good. But what will it take to really start colonizing a distant planet?
# space
PZ Myers declares space exploration and colonizing other words dead on arrival. Let me count the way's he's wrong about that...
# space
Here's a little something for fans of large, complex space art...
# space
If we return to the Moon and decide to stay there, the Moon may offer us a few shortcuts in setting up a safe place to live.
# space
While we lament the high cost of exploring space, the truth is that we have the money and plenty of it, plus, investing in R&D will yield trillions in economic development.
# tech
The Tau Zero Foundation has a radical plan for exploring interstellar space with an extreme spaceship. Problem is, it might not be radical enough.
# space
It would be nothing short of self-sabotage not to use the Moon as a dress rehearsal for deep space missions and a hub for future astronauts.
# space
Whether we like it or not, military hardware is going to be in space. It's just a question of when and what.
# space
Singularitarians think they figured out the perfect way to travel through space after they upload their minds to machines.
# 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
The IIS is an engineering marvel and one of humanity's biggest accomplishments. Unfortunately, its potential is being wasted and its future is being horribly mismanaged.
# space
How hard would it be to develop space travel on a small, Earth-sized planet with rings posing a constant navigational hazard?
# space
Virgin Galactic has unveiled the first prototype of SpaceShipTwo, the vehicle that will take tourists to the edge of space.
# tech
Robots are a critical component of space exploration. But they're just that, a component.
# astrobiology
There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical that extraterrestrial scientists are roaming our solar system and kidnapping hapless humans for probing.
