Why do dotcom billionaires flock to the space industry? Because space is a lot like what made them rich in the first place. It's technological, packed with challenges, and way out there.
Read MoreSpace industry pioneer Burt Rutan thought he was a maverick. But he was galloping on the shoulders of giants.
Read MoreMost of NASA's budget doesn't go toward NASA employees building equipment. It goes toward private contracts.
Read MoreOn December 14, 1972, Gene Cernan climbed into the lunar module from the surface of the Moon. He was the last person to be on the Moon. Today, more than 40 years later, the machines for landing people on the Moon and returning them safely to Earth no longer exist.
Read MoreAfter we landed on the Moon, few people suspected that we wouldn't keep going.
Read MoreApollo was more than a Moon mission. It was America's most successful technology mission. And our economy is still mining the benefits.
Read MoreSamuel P. Langley is remembered as the man who spent government money to build a airplane that never flew. The real story is a lot more interesting. In aerospace, failure actually is an option.
Read MoreThe Baltimore Sun published our op ed on space and the future. Go Gravity Well!
You can read it here.
It really wasn’t that long ago when the two greatest superpowers were vying to put satellites into space. Now, 50 nations have their own satellites in low Earth orbit. If you’re a Thailand, say, you can call Space Systems/Loral, a Canadian-owned company based in Palo Alto, California, and tell them you want to put a satellite into geostationary orbit for television broadcasting or military communications. You can have the thing in orbit 25,000 miles above Earth within two years.
