Space Exploration on Townhall

• White House: We Will Not Be Building a Death Star Sat Jan 12
  Kate Hicks
• Beyond the Beltway: America's Next Sputnik Moment Fri May 25
  David Malcolm
  In Hawthorne, California, birthplace of the Beach Boys and just minutes south of Los Angeles International Airport, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is making the futuristic “final frontier” envisioned in movies like “Star Trek” a near-term reality. ... more
• NASA ready to move shuttle Enterprise to New York Fri Apr 27
  Townhall.com Staff
• Space Shuttle Discovery and Our New Comrades Thu Apr 19
  Sandy Rios
  Watching Space Shuttle Discovery soar over the great American monuments in DC on the back of a 747, gutted and consigned to a museum, brought back wonderful memories of America’s marvelous achievements. Yet it also reminded us it was our triumph in the space war that bankrupted the Soviet Union and created a bitterness they shall never forget. ... more
• Newt Gingrich goes to space camp Tue Mar 6
  Townhall.com Staff
• Gingrich says space exploration in US tradition Sat Jan 28
  AP News
• Gingrich Unveils and Emphasizes Plans for Outer Space Wed Jan 25
  Kevin Glass
• China's JFK Moment Thu Jan 5
  Cal Thomas
  President Obama's decision in 2010 to cut NASA's budget and abandon the Constellation program, established by the Bush administration, which was charged with returning Americans to the moon by 2020 and creating an "extended human presence on the moon," has created a vacuum, which China will attempt to fill. ... more
• Obama's Russia Policy: Trust, Don't Verify Fri Nov 18
  Ken Blackwell
  President Reagan’s famous dictum, which he often quoted to Mikhail Gorbachev in Russian, was Trust but Verify. (In Russian, it rhymes: Doverai, no proverai.) President Obama has recognized that Reagan was a “transformational” president. He says he gave the old man credit, though he never gave him his vote. ... more
• Cain criticizes Obama on space exploration Sat Nov 12
  AP News
• Nobel Prize-winning physicist Norman Ramsey dies Mon Nov 7
  AP News
• Boeing brings space taxi jobs to Florida Mon Oct 31
  Reuters News
• Boeing to build spacecraft at shuttle hangar Mon Oct 31
  AP News
• NASA-backed space taxi to fly in test next summer Tue Oct 11
  Reuters News
• SpaceX to attempt fully reusable orbital booster Thu Sep 29
  AP News
• Obama's Intent to Gut the Military Mon Jul 25
  Lurita Doan
  President Obama continues to push the notion that he wants a "balanced approach" to budget cuts, but it is becoming increasingly clear that the only spending cuts he is willing to contemplate are cuts in defense spending. ... more
• CNN Poll: 50 percent say ending shuttle program is bad for country Thu Jul 21
  Townhall.com Staff
• Atlantis Makes Final Landing Thu Jul 21
  Cape Canaveral, FL
  The US Space Shuttle program ended last night when Atlantis landed for the last time. ... more
• Final Trip to the Final Frontier Fri Jul 8
  Rich Galen
  The future of manned spaceflight? Who will issue the call to "boldly go where no man has gone before?" We can't figure out how to raise the debt limit much less launch a mission to Mars. ... more
• Atlantis Blasts Off on Final Voyage Fri Jul 8
  Cape Canaveral, FL
  Space shuttle lifted off today on final voyage, marking the end of the space-shuttle era. ... more
• No More 'Right Stuf' ? Thu Jul 7
  Cal Thomas
  Meaningful deep-space exploration requires human participation for meaningful results. And, according to The New York Times, NASA is facing "a brain drain that threatens to undermine safety as well as the agency's plans." ... more
• Watch: Space Shuttle Endeavor Liftoff Mon May 16
  Cape Canaveral, FL
  The space shuttle Endeavor lifted off for its final mission this morning from Florida. Watch the video on Townhall! ... more
• Russia: Space Race Round Two? Thu Apr 14
  Katie Pavlich
• Into the Fourth Era of Space Exploration Wed Apr 13
  Austin Bay
  The American Civil War had complex economic, political and social origins, but taking seriously the Declaration of Independence's premise that "all men are created equal" was definitely one of those complexities. ... more
• The 7 Greatest Scientific Achievements Of The Last 50 Years Tue Mar 1
  John Hawkins
  We human beings tend to forget how far we've come as a species in a relatively short period of time. ... more

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