Enjoy the Milky Way while you can. Our home galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy are the main members of the Local Group of galaxies; you can think of them as the anchor stores of the Local Group mall. Unlike Sears and JCPenney, however, our galaxy and Andromeda are moving closer all the time. In a […]
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Saving spaceflight
Published May 8th, 2007 in moon, space exploration, Mars and science. 29 CommentsEvery so often I become worried about whether we’ll have a future in space. Right now my thoughts run this way because we’re sacrificing so much to go boldly where we went 40 years ago.
The robotic Mars exploration program has been truncated, the Terrestrial Planet Finder and Europa Orbiter have been cancelled, work to […]