The Martian sunrise reveals not only exquisite views, but also secrets and lies. Author’s note: This piece contains spoilers for For All Mankind Season 3. In his 1981 book 2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future, futurist and pioneer of space settlements Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill wrote, “Here is…

A 1986 Esquire article reveals idle gossip but very little about the pioneering woman astronaut. Here’s what most people know about Dr. Judith A. Resnik, the second U.S. woman in space: she was killed during January 1986’s Challenger tragedy. And that’s it. During her lifetime, Resnik kept a remarkably low…

Axiom Space’s Ax-1 mission retells a story first told in 1974. According to a SpaceNews article by Jeff Foust published on May 13, Axiom Space’s Ax-1 mission, the first spaceflight of non-NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), was beset by what its astronauts characterized as “an aggressive timeline.”…

A nuclear accident that happened in 1979 colored how many viewed Skylab’s impending reentry. Less than three months before Skylab’s reentry, a nuclear incident of unprecedented proportions unfolded around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, striking fear into the city’s (and nation’s) populace and effectively ending the United States’ commercial nuclear power industry. Much…

Better late than never, the U.S. space agency makes a bold statement. On Thursday, April 14, NASA released its first-ever Equity Action Plan, which, according to the space agency, “Establishes key focus areas that will allow the agency to track progress toward improved diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility both internally…

Trigger warning: mentions of women’s health issues. Anyone squeamish about these topics may not want to read further. I seriously considered not writing this, but a writer writes, so I decided why not tackle this subject? But I felt it bears mentioning given that I’ll be largely absent from this…

Three excellent Twitter sources to follow as this situation continues to unfold. It almost goes without writing that since Russia invaded Ukraine on Wednesday, February 23rd, there has been a lot of information (and misinformation) spread via social media channels, most notably Twitter, which has allowed the war to be…

Nearly 51 years after the mission ended, Apollo 15 still stirs up questions. The day was August 5, 1971, and astronaut Alfred M. Worden’s place in the history books was already assured. He was in the process of becoming the first-ever astronaut to perform a trans-lunar EVA, with full sight…