NASA Needs to (More) Boldly Go
March 21, 2015
NASA recently announced a dozen grants to private companies to develop technologies for getting to and working in space, including a rocket that its developers say could carry humans to Mars in less than six weeks. But a space historian has argued in Issues that such approaches will not be enough, and that the government should pursue radically new launch technologies that could truly open the door to vast opportunities for space exploration and development.