There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.

It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.

If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad day on Earth.

NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.

Wow, monitor lizards are pretty gnarly creatures. I want to go with the monitor lizard. That's just weird enough to be true. No?

Let's create a World's Fair that captures everybody's visions of tomorrow together and let's celebrate that vision. Let's have articles on it with illustrators imagining how we'd be living differently.

I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.