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Casey Dreier • June 16, 2019 • 2
How much did Project Apollo cost? Planetary Society experts answered that question by revisiting primary sources and reconstructing Apollo's entire cost history from 1960 - 1973.
Casey Dreier • April 26, 2019 • 8
Thirty years ago, President George H.W. Bush announced an ambitious program to return humans to the Moon. It failed. Today the Trump Administration wants the same thing. Can a failed lunar return effort help this one succeed?
Bruce Betts • October 02, 2018 • 2
A collection of before and after slider images showing how views of planets in our solar system have changed over the years since NASA was created.
Mike Blackstone • July 12, 2018 • 1
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a fabled history of planetary rovers. But how do you start such a program?
Sandhya Ramesh • May 15, 2018
Two weeks ago, Indian media reported a fire at the Space Application Centre (SAC) of ISRO in the city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Although it was a big fire, it was in an isolated building and no spacecraft was damaged.
Duane W. Hamacher and Carla Bento Guedes • November 21, 2017
The Polynesian peoples' astronomical knowledge helped them colonize the vast Pacific Ocean.
Jason Callahan • October 11, 2017
Planetary Society Policy Adviser Jason Callahan summarizes his paper he presented at the 2017 International Astronautical Congress in Australia, where he examined NASA's low-cost Discovery program and how federal policies directed at higher education initially bolstered planetary science into a viable field.
Jason Wright • October 06, 2017
One of the reasons SETI is hard is that we don’t know exactly what we are looking for, and part of that difficulty is that we still aren’t sure of who we are. An astronomer and an anthropologist team up to explore how cultural myopia shape what we can find in the cosmos.
Paul Schenk • September 08, 2017 • 1
Planetary scientist Paul Schenk shares his story of working on the Voyager missions as a JPL intern back in 1979.
Casey Dreier • August 05, 2017
Five (Earth) years ago today, the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity landed in a dramatic fashion on the surface of the Red Planet. We look back at a mission that advanced humanity's understanding of Mars and provided a priceless return on a modest investment.
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