Space Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/topic/space/ The best minds on the most important topics. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:20:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Space Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/topic/space/ 32 32 Attempting a Democratic Technology https://issues.org/peoples-spaceship-review-logsdon/ https://issues.org/peoples-spaceship-review-logsdon/#respond Wed, 05 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44588 John M. Logsdon reviews Amy Paige Kaminsky’s book about the development of and justification for NASA’s space shuttle program.

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]]> https://issues.org/peoples-spaceship-review-logsdon/feed/ 0 Brent Blevins Makes Mars Policy in Congress https://issues.org/brent-blevins-makes-mars-policy-in-congress/ https://issues.org/brent-blevins-makes-mars-policy-in-congress/#respond Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=42759 In this installment of Science Policy IRL, Lisa Margonelli goes behind the scenes of congressional policymaking with Brent Blevins. Blevins is a senior congressional staffer and staff director of the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/brent-blevins-makes-mars-policy-in-congress/feed/ 0 How Space Art Shaped National Identity https://issues.org/space-art-national-identity-russo/ https://issues.org/space-art-national-identity-russo/#respond Wed, 01 May 2024 15:07:04 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=42246 Space exploration became firmly interwoven with American culture through influential speeches by President John F. Kennedy at a time of heightened awareness of the “space race” between the United States and the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/space-art-national-identity-russo/feed/ 0 Taking Aristotle to the Moon and Beyond https://issues.org/aristotle-philosophy-space-exploration-faith/ https://issues.org/aristotle-philosophy-space-exploration-faith/#respond Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41961 In 2009, journalist Tom Wolfe, author of the space-age classic The Right Stuff, wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times entitled “One Giant Leap to Nowhere.” Commenting on the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/aristotle-philosophy-space-exploration-faith/feed/ 0 This Eclipse Could Make You Cry–And Make New Scientists https://issues.org/total-solar-eclipse-public-engagement-podcast/ https://issues.org/total-solar-eclipse-public-engagement-podcast/#respond Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:27:19 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41903 Douglas Duncan is an astronomer who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. He is also an eclipse fanatic. Since 1970, he has been to 11 total solar eclipses. When April 8, 2024,… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/total-solar-eclipse-public-engagement-podcast/feed/ 0 Why Space Debris Flies Through Regulatory Gaps https://issues.org/space-debris-fcc-harbert-balakrishnan/ https://issues.org/space-debris-fcc-harbert-balakrishnan/#respond Wed, 26 Jul 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=39533 Within an eight-day period in March 2023, astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) fired their thrusters twice to avoid a projected collision. Part of a dead satellite was hurtling toward the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/space-debris-fcc-harbert-balakrishnan/feed/ 0 How Would You Defend the Planet From Asteroids? https://issues.org/nasa-asteroid-initative-pta-farooque-kessler/ https://issues.org/nasa-asteroid-initative-pta-farooque-kessler/#respond Mon, 09 Jan 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=37981 On September 26, 2022, NASA successfully smashed a spacecraft into a tiny asteroid named Dimorphos, altering its orbit. Although it was 6.8 million miles from Earth, the Double Asteroid Redirect Test … Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/nasa-asteroid-initative-pta-farooque-kessler/feed/ 0 A Montreal Protocol for Space Junk? https://issues.org/orbital-debris-space-junk-montreal-protocol-garber-rand/ https://issues.org/orbital-debris-space-junk-montreal-protocol-garber-rand/#respond Wed, 11 May 2022 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=34575 On November 15, 2021, the crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) received an early wake-up call from NASA’s mission control. The day before, Russia had unexpectedly conducted an antisatellite technology (ASAT)… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/orbital-debris-space-junk-montreal-protocol-garber-rand/feed/ 0 An Inflection Point for Space https://issues.org/space-inflection-point-dark-skies-deudney-perkovich/ https://issues.org/space-inflection-point-dark-skies-deudney-perkovich/#respond Mon, 09 May 2022 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=34612 In December 2021, China accused SpaceX, the private aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, of flying two of its Starlink satellites unacceptably close to China’s space station in July and October of… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/space-inflection-point-dark-skies-deudney-perkovich/feed/ 0 Making Space for Everyone https://issues.org/making-space-everyone-nasa-kaminski/ https://issues.org/making-space-everyone-nasa-kaminski/#respond Mon, 13 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=31991 The tenor of spaceflight has changed. In the spring of 2020, the gloom of COVID-19 was temporarily dispelled by two NASA astronauts donning restyled flight suits before launching aboard Space X’s Dragon… Read More

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