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Space Means Business? Space: The Business Frontier at Harvard Business School

Space Means Business? Space: The Business Frontier at Harvard Business School

Zoe P. Strassfield  05. 8.2012
I'd never heard of a space conference for business majors before. How exactly would students in BU's School of Management or the equivalent...
Rocky Mountain Higher? Hick Signs Bill To Expand Spaceflight Biz

Rocky Mountain Higher? Hick Signs Bill To Expand Spaceflight Biz

Matt Ferner  04.20.2012
The Rocky Mountain high is poised to get even higher. On Thursday, Gov. John Hickenlooper signed the "Spaceflight Entity Limited Liability"...

The Dawn of the Era of Private Human Spaceflight

Ayodele Faiyetole  04.11.2012
While visiting San Francisco awhile back, Yuki Takahashi was away at the South Pole working on a telescope for his Ph.D. He remotely organized...
Alien Messages in Plain Sight

Alien Messages in Plain Sight

Seth Shostak  04. 5.2012
Could there be a faster way to discover interesting galactic neighbors? Is there some scheme for detecting aliens that might work quicker...
To Infinity...And Beyond!

To Infinity...And Beyond!

Kate Auletta  03.19.2012
There's soon to be a new man on the moon. Ashton Kutcher became Virgin Galactic's 500th customer on Monday, CEO Sir Richard Branson blogged. Branson...

Ushering in the Final Frontier -- Manned Spaceflight

Ayodele Faiyetole  03.19.2012
Space is vast, and in order for humans to further take the giant leaps of colonizing the other planets -- terraforming and living on there...
Why Human Space Travel?

Why Human Space Travel?

Richard Garriott de Cayeux  03.19.2012
Human spaceflight can and will come down in cost by a factor of 10 to 100 in the next decades. The issue is not if we should explore and...
The New Space Race: The Next 30 Years of Human Exploration of Space

The New Space Race: The Next 30 Years of Human Exploration of Space

Richard Garriott de Cayeux  02.21.2012
So, why travel into space and why should tax payers pay for humans to travel beyond Earth? Because this exploration will return direct...
NASA Reportedly Considering Outpost Near Moon

NASA Reportedly Considering Outpost Near Moon

Timothy Stenovec  02.12.2012
By: Leonard David Published: 02/11/2012 09:32 PM EST on SPACE.com NASA is pressing forward on assessing the value of a "human-tended...

Cirque Du Soleil Founder Goes To Space

02.10.2012
Guy Laliberte began as a humble juggler in Quebec and worked his way up the circus circuit, eventually founding the now infamous Cirque...

Gingrich: Terrible President on Earth, Great One in Space

Konstantin Kakaes  01.30.2012

President Obama's attempts to reform NASA have been gestures in the right direction, but he has been tepid in this, as in so many other...

What is the Use of Space Exploration?

Margaret Weinberg  01.25.2012
Throughout my childhood social studies classes, I was told that we study history so we can learn from our mistakes and successes. To not...
A Journey Into Distant Worlds: Making Space Exploration Come Alive for Young Earthlings

A Journey Into Distant Worlds: Making Space Exploration Come Alive for Young Earthlings

Larry Bock  01.24.2012
It is our aim during the Festival to give kids a peek into these discoveries and distant frontiers by providing them an up-close look into...
Newt: Let's Go To The Moon Permanently

Newt: Let's Go To The Moon Permanently

Amanda Terkel  01.23.2012
Space travel is an issue that will likely come in few states besides Florida this primary season, but both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich...