Section 1. Purpose. Superiority in space is a measure of national vision and willpower, and the technologies Americans develop to achieve it contribute substantially to the Nation’s strength, security ...

Two NASA astronauts who flew up to the International Space Station in a Boeing Starliner capsule for a round trip that was supposed to last just over a week will be stuck in space for closer to a year ...

"Wicked" stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande have recently made headlines not only around the movie's release, but also their emotional press tour. In a recent interview, Out reporter Tracy E.

Private companies are offering many opportunities to make the leap off Earth, ranging from a quick suborbital hop to a multi month stay on the International Space Station (ISS). But the advent of the ...

A 3D model of a space elevator. Credit: Bruce Irving/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The space elevator has been a staple of science fiction for decades, from The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke to the ...

President Donald J. Trump transformed American space policy during his first term. He reestablished the National Space Council to coordinate national space strategy. He issued a series of important ...

What goes up, must come down — unless you’re sending things into space, of course, which creates some complications. After more than 60 years of satellite launches and space exploration, manufactured ...

The current ‘second space age’ has enabled multiple studies on the effects of spaceflight on human physiology and health, which are contributing to the development of measures that will be needed to ...

A space elevator could make it much cheaper and faster to get goods to other planets, like Mars. The Obayashi Corporation based in Japan announced in 2012 plans to begin building one by next year. Not ...

Space should not be a garbage dump. Nevertheless, we have treated the sky as a wrecker’s yard for more than half a century, and the amount of space junk orbiting Earth has skyrocketed in recent years.

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Humanity's quest to explore—and, perhaps eventually, colonize—outer space has prompted a great many ideas about how precisely to go about it. While conventional wisdom suggests that space launch via ...