Recent content by Surak

Let's not make the mistake of the 1960's all over again. Then, space exploration was framed as a race with the Soviet Union. Once the United States won that race, the political will to use Apollo technology to the fullest to explore the moon vanished. We didn't go back to the moon for...

Bernie Sanders and Greta Thunberg are trying to save our democracy and our global technological civilization from an increasingly corrupt and predacious corporate capitalism. Becoming an interplanetary society is the project of a successful society because it requires extensive international...

Musk's rather immature remark shows why we can't trust profit-driven billionaires with our future in space. He is clearly trying to suck up to the Trump administration in the hopes that any space weapons programs resulting from the Space Force will mean new launch contracts for Space X. As any...