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You Can’t Always Get What You Want (but if you try some time, you might find … you get what you need)
A plan for a human mission to a near Earth object designed by engineers from Georgia Tech and the National Institute for Aerospace was posted online
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The Moon’s Role in Climate Science
A recent article about the role of global magnetic fields in the loss of planetary volatiles caught my attention.
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Volcanic Shields of the Moon
Come home with your shield, or on it – Spartan women to their husbands, marching off to war.
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Discarding Shuttle: The Hidden Cost
A symposium entitled “U.S. Human Spaceflight: Continuity and Stability” was held at Rice University’s James A. Baker Institute of Public Policy
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Vision statements for non-Visionaries
A seemingly trivial event has revealed some schadenfreude about NASA, along with a lot of irritation.
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Can we afford to return to the Moon?
We are almost at the end of a year that has seen major changes in our space program.
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A Founding Father of Lunar Science
I learned that a titan of lunar science passed away last month.
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Can NASA Get Its Groove Back?
Remember when space exploration was “groovy” and excitement about seeing humans explore the Solar System within our lifetimes was palpable?
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Permafrost, Snow Cones and Fairy Castles
Although the discovery of ice on the Moon comes from a wide variety of different measurements, they are all “remote sensing.”
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Look Ma! No Glasses!
A geologist uses topographic maps to measure slopes, depths, heights and the general shape of landforms.
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The Incredible Shrinking Moon
Back in the 1970’s Paleolithic age of lunar studies, scientists were busy using images of the Moon in an attempt to understand lunar processes and history.
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