space exploration

On Tuesday, it will be 50 years since the launch of Apollo 11, the first crewed expedition to the moon. More followed, and I remember those ones better. I was only 4 when 11 happened so don't really remember much. Of course, NASA has marked the anniversary by initiating a serious attempt to...

NASA has finally conceded that the Opportunity rover on Mars is a lost cause. Contact was lost last summer when a massive Martian dust storm forced Oppy, as it is affectionately known, to shut down. Opportunity was solar powered so the dust basically prevented it from generating enough energy to...

Alan Bean, fourth human being to set foot on the Moon, passed away today. That leaves only 4 of the twelve astronauts who actually set foot on our satellite left and all are in their early to mid eighties. At one time, the optimists among us thought we'd be back there while at least some of them...