A generation ago, when former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin promoted the mantra of a “faster, better, cheaper” approach to the agency’s science missions, critics often joked that NASA could only pick ...

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This series, Space in Focus, explores key space trends, challenges, and policy issues that will confront the next administration as well as offers recommendations for how to navigate them. In the ...

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman speaks April 10, 2024, at the 39th Space Symposium. Credit: Tom Kimmell Photography COLORADO SPRINGS — Following the Pentagon’s recent guidance urging ...

The story of human progress has always been about the pioneers who dared to cross the river, explore the cave, or sail beyond the horizon. When those who go first return, what was dangerous and ...

After years of hesitation, the national security space community is finally boarding the commercial space train, one that many of us have been pushing for since the early 2000’s. The momentum is ...

A strategy document released by the Pentagon this week lays out where the US military can most effectively rely on the commercial space industry and what missions should remain in government hands.

It's been a big week for NATO-geared space players, as the military coalition increased its defense spending target to 5% and issued its commercial space strategy. Communication, navigation and ...

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo tug developed under NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program approaches the International Space Station’s Canadarm 2 in February. Credit: NASA ORLANDO, ...

There are moments in the modern space era that compel all of us to stop and reassess their place in the new Space Race. When Paul Allen and Burt Rutan’s SpaceShipOne became the first privately built ...

The space station industry is starting to take off. For decades, if you wanted to send an astronaut or experiment into orbit, the International Space Station (ISS) was the only option. But now, as ...