In this issue

December 2022

It's Been 50 Years Since Humans Walked on the Moon

We were supposed to go back to the moon last week. We were also supposed to go back five weeks before that in mid-September, and six months before that.

3 mins

We Are Going to the Moon

Thanks to the rise of private spaceflight companies, mankind will have a future off-earth.

10+ mins

We Are Living Robert Heinlein's Dream

A new generation of companies has made space travel affordable.

10+ mins

ARE WE STILL AWED BY THE HEAVENS?

IS SPACE MORE awesome than ever, now that we've walked on the moon and beheld the stunning photos transmitted by the James Webb telescope? Or is the night sky, thanks to modernity, more meh? In particular, do kids find the universe more meh than the metaverse?

3 mins

The Case for Space Billionaires

What critics of the private space race get wrong

10 mins

TERRAFORM THE GALAXY

SEVERAL INFLUENTIAL PHILOSOPHERS and environmentalist thinkers argue that terraforming Mars and other planets, making them suitable for humans and other Earth life, would be immoral. As we near a day when terraforming is actually possible, the arguments against it are worth reviewing and rebutting.

4 mins

THE MILITARY-UFO COMPLEX

HOW A MOTLEY CREW OF SAUCER HUNTERS GOT A PLACE AT THE PUBLIC TROUGH

9 mins

SPACE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RETHINK PROPERTY RIGHTS

HERE'S WHAT COULD HAPPEN WHEN JOHN LOCKE AND HENRY GEORGE GO TO THE MOON.

10 mins

If You Want to Get High in Space

After SpaceX founder Elon Musk smoked a blunt on Joe Rogan's podcast in 2018, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was happy to cut him some slack. "Let the man get high if he wants to get high," Tyson told TMZ. "He's the best thing we've had since Thomas Edison."

3 mins

America's Other Space Agency

How the FCC went from regulating telegraphs to regulating satellites

10 mins

FROM SPACE REGULATOR TO ASTRONAUT

George Nield spent his government career thinking about space. Then he got to fly.

10+ mins

THE FRACTAL, FRACTIOUS POLITICS OF THE EXPANSE

TAKING HUMANITY FROM EARTH TO THE STARS ISN'T EASY.

10 mins

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