No pressure: How Isaacman could get the US back to the moon before China

With his renomination by President Trump, billionaire private space traveler Jared Isaacman has won the space Game of Thrones. All he has to do is go through the confirmation process again before he assumes the Iron Throne of NASA. Let that process be done with all due speed, since Isaacman has a lot to do when he becomes head of the space agency.

The latest target in the war against space billionaires

President Donald Trump has renominated billionaire private space traveler Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator. While Isaacman is expected to sail through confirmation, not everyone is enamored with the man. The same people who disdain space-faring billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos dislike Isaacman, too.

Why space companies want to make solar cells from lunar dirt

We rarely ask, with regard to humans returning to the moon, how they will develop its resources. Two companies are creating the technology to do just that.

William Shatner doesn’t much like space travel

About a year ago Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and CEO of Blue Origin, had what seemed to be the brilliant idea of sending Shatner on a suborbital hop on the New Shepard rocket. Indeed, Shatner gushed in awe and wonder about the experience at the time.

That was then. Now, Shatner has just published his latest memoir, “Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder.” He says that his experience of flying into space was depressing.

Jeff Bezos prepares to challenge Elon Musk for space dominance

When most people think of a space race, they think of the one conducted by the United States against the Soviet Union during the 1960s or the current one between the United States, and her allies, versus China. However, the most interesting space race is occurring between commercial space companies: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX. As of right now, SpaceX is winning, hands down.

Biden's wealth tax would undermine his space and environmental goals

The Biden administration seems not to have thought things through when it ventured into "soak-the-rich" territory. The proposal is obviously a sop to Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, and members of "the Squad" who have targeted wealthy, successful taxpayers as enemies of the people. However, the more money that people such as Musk, Bezos, and Gates must pay to the government, the less they will have to invest in innovative technologies that will address the problems of space travel and climate change.