The Shifting Tides of the New Space Age http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

The current era of spaceflight has seen a lot of uncertainty and upheaval. NASA is drifting without a clear purpose, torn between encouraging start-ups to build new rockets and wanting to produce a large and capable spacecraft of its own. New players have entered the arena, offering cheaper access to space and audacious plans to mine asteroids and settle Mars. We talk to space policy expert John Logsdon about all this tumult, what it means for spaceflight, and just when the heck we are finally going to Mars.



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