Paul M. Jones | Space 2026-05-08T09:12:58-05:00 The Climate Issues You Should *Really* Be Worried About: Solar Output Variation And Ice Ages 2013-01-18T18:53:46-06:00 The average G-type star shows a variability in energy output of around 4%. Our sun is a typical G-type star, yet its observed variability in our brief historical sample is only 1/40th of this. When or if the Sun returns to more typical variation in e... Why You Should Be More Interested in Mars Than the Olympics 2012-07-30T21:48:04-05:00 This summer, if you want the world's best story of international human triumph, you'll have to look past London (even beyond the amazing hurdlers with very popular warm-up routines). You'll have to look 200 million miles away, in fact, to discover a ... Former NASA scientists, astronauts admonish agency on climate change position 2012-04-10T22:16:09-05:00 49 former rocket scientists and astronauts think NASA is doing it wrong: We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering... Happy Moon Landing Day 2011-07-20T16:22:54-05:00 On this day in 1969, Apolo 11 landed on the moon..... A Thousand Dollars per Pound, Delivered to Orbit 2011-04-10T19:10:01-05:00 Reaching Earth orbit and only spending a thousand dollars per pound to get your spacecraft there--it's long been the shining goal of the launch business. Tuesday, Elon Musk, the founder of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), made an announcement... A Space Elevator In 7 Years 2010-06-01T15:00:01-05:00 ... compared to the technology of the 1960s, when mankind first embarked on a trip to the moon, a space elevator is simple for our modern world to build. In fact, if you took a cellphone back to the Apollo scientists, they’d treat it like a supe... A Space Program for the Rest of Us 2009-07-24T14:01:08-05:00 Apollo was not a methodical space program; it was an anomalous race in the Cold War in which anything could be wasted but time. It turned out to be unsustainable and unaffordable, which is why it boggles the mind that over three decades later--during... Buzz Aldrin’s Plan for NASA 2009-06-25T12:32:02-05:00 I’m in no mood to keep my mouth shut any longer when I see NASA heading down the wrong path. And that’s exactly what I see today. The ­agency’s current Vision for Space Exploration will waste decades and hundreds of billions of doll... Header Image: Jupiter and Io 2006-01-02T09:43:30-06:00 So I finally got around to putting up a custom header image for this blog; now it won't look exactly like every other default installation of Wordpress. It's a picture of Io in orbit above Jupiter, taken by the Cassini space probe on its way to Satu... Sputnik and SpaceShipOne 2004-10-04T14:07:06-05:00 On this day in 1957, the Soviet Union started the space race among national governments. On this same day, today, in 2004, SpaceShipOne won $10 million X Prize and started the space race among private organizations. Great going, guys, let's hope you ...