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Winter 2004

The Human Explorer

Why sending robots is not enough

Robert Zubrin

Spring 2018

For the Love of Mars

Why settling the Red Planet can lift us from our antihuman malaise

James Poulos

Fall 2007

Our Proud Human Future

Why traveling to other planets will still leave us lost in the cosmos

Peter Augustine Lawler

Spring/Summer 2016

Getting Over ‘Apolloism’

The 1960s missions to the Moon are a bad template for today’s space program.

Rand Simberg

Spring 2018

For the Love of Mars

Why settling the Red Planet can lift us from our antihuman malaise

James Poulos

Fall 2007

Our Proud Human Future

Why traveling to other planets will still leave us lost in the cosmos

Peter Augustine Lawler

Spring/Summer 2016

Getting Over ‘Apolloism’

The 1960s missions to the Moon are a bad template for today’s space program.

Rand Simberg

Fall 2015

Searching for Other Earths

How — and why — we look for exoplanets

Sara Seager

Fall 2003

A New Vision for NASA

The trouble with NASA and the need for space exploration

Adam Keiper

Summer/Fall 2018

Moon Direct

A purpose-driven plan to open the lunar frontier

Robert Zubrin

Summer/Fall 2018

Lost on Mars

Why space colonization will disappoint you

Micah Meadowcroft

Fall 2010

Opening Space with a ‘Transorbital Railroad’

What the space age could learn from the age of the iron horse

Robert Zubrin

Summer 2005

To Boldly Go

The end of Star Trek and Star Wars

The Editors of The New Atlantis

Symposium | Fall 2007

A Half-Century in Space

Debating Hannah Arendt’s “The Conquest of Space and the Stature of Man”

Symposium

Human Uniqueness in the Cosmos

Are we an insignificant speck?

Summer 2019

NASA’s Next 50 Years

A half-century after Apollo, the agency risks irrelevance. It’s time for a real — and different — mission.

Robert Zubrin

Spring 2017

Grit, Gus, and Glory

Restoring the reputation of an unsung American hero

George Weigel

Winter 2016

Missing the Night Sky

On light pollution, enlightenment, and our sense of finitude

Jacob Hoerger

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Featured

The Human Explorer

For the Love of Mars

Our Proud Human Future

Getting Over ‘Apolloism’

For the Love of Mars

Our Proud Human Future

Getting Over ‘Apolloism’

Searching for Other Earths

A New Vision for NASA

Moon Direct

Lost on Mars

Opening Space with a ‘Transorbital Railroad’

To Boldly Go

A Half-Century in Space

Human Uniqueness in the Cosmos

NASA’s Next 50 Years

Grit, Gus, and Glory

Missing the Night Sky