by Michael Belfiore | Jul 10, 2011 | Blog
“Inner space is useful. Outer space is history.” Thus reads the subhead of the cover editorial in the current issue of The Economist. It’s just another major media outlet taking the opportunity of the Space Shuttle’s retirement to declare the...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 4, 2011 | Blog
The Space Shuttle will roar into retirement on Friday, leaving NASA with no vehicle of its own to replace it. The situation has some, including moonwalker Neil Armstrong and US Senator Richard Shelby, declaring the end of US competitiveness in space. Yet, I would...
by Michael Belfiore | Jun 30, 2011 | Blog
The race is on for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE for the first privately funded team to land a robot on the moon, have it traverse 500 meters, and send back high-def video (and email and Facebook and Twitter posts). Next Giant Leap, led by entrepreneur Michael...
