Invention and Discovery Are Twins
/The ancients knew that the one leads to the other. Engineers know this. And so does anyone who supports space.
Read MoreThe ancients knew that the one leads to the other. Engineers know this. And so does anyone who supports space.
Read MoreSpace is the ultimate high ground. It would be foolish to give it up to nations to may want to do us harm someday.
Read MoreTwo primary reasons: investment, and risk.
Read MoreA fully funded space program costs a lot. And we have other priorities. So what's the argument for funding space?
Read MoreWhat took Europeans centuries, we can achieve within the lifetime of some readers: an unprecedented economy in a new frontier.
Read MoreIt 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.