More on the role of science in NASA

By Jeff Foust on 2006 April 3 at 6:21 am ET

I wasn’t planning to say anything about Gregg Easterbrook’s essay in Slate last week that criticized NASA’s exploration initiative. That’s in part because Easterbrook didn’t say anything new (in a blog post over two years ago he echoed a theme in his Slate essay that there would be nothing for astronauts at a Moon base […]

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Using space to take on Hutchison

By Jeff Foust on 2006 April 3 at 5:42 am ET

In Texas, Barbara Ann Radnofsky is a Democratic candidate for the US Senate against Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. (“A” candidate since Radnofsky must first win a primary runoff next Tuesday.) Interestingly, she tells the Houston Chronicle that she believes that she can win votes in the Houston area by pointing out a perceived lack of […]

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What’s a spaceport for?

By Jeff Foust on 2006 April 2 at 8:10 pm ET

For the last several months legislators in Wisconsin have been working on a bill that would create a Wisconsin Aerospace Authority, charged with the responsibility of overseeing a state spaceport, most likely in Sheboygan. (See earlier coverage.) That bill has passed both houses of the legislature and is awaiting the governor’s signature, according to an […]

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