From Alexis Madrigal, this was news to me: In thinking about the recent battles over NASA’s budget, it seems like the problem is simply citizen support. People don’t care that much about space, so space doesn’t get funded. Back in the Apollo days, people loved the space program! Except, as this Space Policy paper pointed [...]
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A new website Spacelog lets you relive NASA's early missions by recreating the full transcripts. As Alexis Madrigal put it: [T]hey've transformed the NASA transcripts into a series of searchable, linkable pages that look like Twitte... Read Post
Kepler, NASA’s designated planet-hunter, could be in trouble. Bill Borucki, the spacecraft mission’s longtime head, told Alexis Madrigal at the Atlantic that he was getting nervous about funding as Kepler heads toward the end of its... Read Post
To mark the end of NASA's shuttle program, Alexis Madrigal revisits the space colonies imagined in the 1970s: Conceptually, the colonies, while they required massive resources to build, would have been self-contained human communiti... Read Post