Space

NASA's New Spacesuit Design For Missions To The Moon

Huffington Post | Posted 06.25.2008 | Home


NASA is redesigning the spacesuit for the first time since the late 1970s. The new design will replace the older, bulkier suit with a sleeker version...

Human triumph on Mars

Phil Plait | Posted 06.03.2008 | Living


Phil Plait

This is what we humans can do when we try. When we persist and learn from our mistakes, we can literally touch other worlds.

Branson On Stalking Sartre, Joining The Mile High Club, And Marrying A Google Guy

Details | Posted 04.05.2008 | Business


In this month's issue of Details magazine, Richard Branson, billionaire and renegade mogul, sounds off on a number of different issues. On his early...

Defense Department Study: 'Drilling Up' Into Space For Energy

AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


While great nations fretted over coal, oil and global warming, one of the smallest at the U.N. climate conference was looking toward the heavens for i...

Spaceport America: Virgin Galactic Unveils Plans For Tourist Spaceport In New Mexico

Business Week | Dianna Dilworth | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


As NASA prepares to retire the space shuttle by the end of the decade, just in time for completion of the International Space Station, the tourism ind...