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Geotimes May 2005 Naomi Lubick	NASA on Deck As NASA prepares for the first space shuttle flight since the Columbia disaster on Feb. 2, 2003, the space agency remains in a transition stage.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 John Rhea	The $10 billion NASA market NASA's budget for fiscal year 2006 envisions spending $10 billion for new competitive opportunities with industry, academia, and the agency's own field centers -- with the big-ticket item being the President's plan for returning humans to the Moon and exploring the planets.
Geotimes February 2005 Naomi Lubick	NASA Debates Hubble's Fate Without a replacement telescope in sight, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe announced in the spring that a robotic mission would be sufficient to service Hubble, but now a group of scientists says that a robotic mission is too costly and uncertain.
Geotimes January 2004 Naomi Lubick	Bush retools space program As the Mars rover Spirit prepares to drive off its platform tonight and into the martian terrain, President Bush prepared the United States to send humans to the red planet and beyond.
Wired December 2004	After the X Prize Manned space travel's best hope is the private sector, not NASA. In the open market, entrepreneurs and space hobbyists will do in a decade what NASA couldn't do in 46 years: provide safe, reliable trips to the heavens for the cost of a Caribbean cruise.
Geotimes December 2005	Highlights 2005 -- Space Rovers still trucking... New "planetary" neighbors... Back to space...
IEEE Spectrum January 2007	Over the Moon NASA announced its reinvigorated mission for the 21st century, part of which is to build a permanent base on the moon.
Popular Mechanics October 28, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	Rooting for NASA's Ares I Rockets: Analysis This week, all eyes were on NASA as it conducted the first flight of the Ares I, the first launch vehicle the agency designed since the Space Shuttle. October also witnessed progress in other space launches
Popular Mechanics September 9, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	5 Ways the Augustine Commission's Report States the Obvious A group of respected aerospace experts spent the entire summer coming up with plans for the future of NASA, and the advice is far from shocking.
CFO May 1, 2004 Kris Frieswick	NASA, We Have a Problem Can NASA's CFO fix the space agency's chronic financial woes?
Geotimes July 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Discovery Returns to Flight The space shuttle Discovery and its seven member crew lifted off, successfully returning NASA to flight after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus. The launch follows a 13-day delay after a faulty fuel sensor halted the first launch attempt during countdown.
The Motley Fool April 11, 2006 Tim Beyers	Countdown to Moon Madness NASA targets 2008 for the next lunar landing. This could be a be a boon to big contractors such as Lockheed Martin, but smaller manufacturers such as Ball Aerospace may stand to gain an outsized share as well. Investors, take note.
InternetNews March 5, 2004 Colin C. Haley	IT's Final Frontier Private IT firms -- especially networking, security and chipmakers -- must play a critical role in NASA's moon and Mars missions, experts say. What's more, NASA has to let them.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Jamieson & Norberg	The Mars Challenge Human exploration of the red planet will inspire new generations of engineers
Geotimes July 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Jetting Through Space President Bush announced on Jan. 4, 2004, his vision to return humans to the moon, Mars and beyond. Without the Cold War era impetus, however, NASA is searching for new ways to motivate development of innovative new vehicles to fly humans to the moon.
T.H.E. Journal June 2006	Online Learning Students in grades 5-12 can explore the surface of Mars this summer with World Book's special online feature, "Exploring the Red Planet," dedicated to the 2003 series of missions to Mars.
Popular Mechanics January 23, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	Dissent Grows as Scientists Oppose NASA's New Moon Mission NASA's current plan for manned space exploration is getting dissension from planetary scientists and astronauts.
Wired December 2004 James Cameron	The Next Giant Leap Buzz Aldrin talks about his walk on the moon and the next step in manned space exploration.
Popular Mechanics October 12, 2009 Erik Sofge	8 Experts Weigh in on the Future of Human Spaceflight It's now up to NASA to consider the findings, and offer specific recommendations to the Obama administration.
Popular Mechanics May 26, 2009 Joe P. Hasler	Is America's Space Administration Over-the-Hill? Next-Gen NASA Forty years ago most of NASA's employees were fresh out of college. Today, less than 20 percent are under the age of 40. As the baby boomers retire, who will get astronauts back to the lunar surface?
AskMen.com	Europe Horns In On Mars By 2016, the U.S. may unite with the European Space Agency for future Mars trips - a move that would mark a significant shift for NASA.
Popular Mechanics February 8, 2010 Rand Simberg	The New NASA: A Path To Anywhere, And Everywhere The author believes that NASA's new path, outlined by the president's budget, holds promise of real progress.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 John Rhea	President Bush's Space Vision: Is This Trip Necessary? NASA has finally unveiled details about its proposed $104 billion plan to return astronauts to the moon by 2018, but critics detect a demonstrably uncertain sound of this trumpet.
Popular Mechanics March 2007 David Noland	Mission to the Moon: How We'll Go Back -- and Stay This Time From ensuring a safe launch to getting the vehicle back on the ground, here's an inside look at some of the toughest challenges NASA's engineers are now confronting with the new Orion shuttle.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Joshua J. Romero	Mars For The Rest Of Us Better cameras, greater bandwidth, and bigger displays put Mars within reach of armchair explorers and by maximizing what can be done from the ground NASA can make Mars exploration politically sustainable and financially worthwhile.
Popular Mechanics November 16, 2009	The Retirement of the Space Shuttle--And What's Next for NASA We look back at coverage of the technology behind the Constellation Program and the development of the International Space station as well as news surrounding the Space Shuttles
HBS Working Knowledge March 1, 2004 Sean Silverthorne	Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science Do the successful Mars missions mean NASA again has the right stuff? Professor Alan MacCormack dissects the space agency's "Faster, Better, Cheaper" program.
Wired May 2003 Tom McNichol	The Race Back to the Moon Astropreneurs are counting down for a return to Apollo country. The first small step: a satellite atlas of the lunar surface. The next giant leap: ice mining, helium farming, and a launchpad to the solar system.
Wired December 2004 James Cameron	The Drive to Discover From deep sea exploration to trips into outer space, discovery is worth funding.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 William Sweet	Do We Need to Go to the Moon to Get to Mars? Returning to the moon is not all that technically challenging. What's challenging is to make it an international effort that puts behind past grievances and sets the stage for a truly challenging international mission to Mars.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 David A. Mindell	The End Of The Cult Of The Astronaut How do you justify human spaceflight?
Scientific American January 2009 George Musser	Space Exploration Sticker Shock--Economics at NASA The laws of physics are easy; it's economics that vexes NASA
Popular Mechanics July 29, 2008 Matt Sullivan	Celebrate NASA's 50th Birthday With Every Space Launch Ever! From chasing Sputnik to shooting for the moon and now dreaming about life on Mars, U.S. space exploration has pushed the boundaries of how out-of-this-world the world can go.
Wired July 24, 2007	Rants Geeks in space are real men... How NASA should treat the solar system... Good government space program... Politics prevents the great minds of NASA from doing their job... Mars exploration... Robots in place of astronauts... etc.
Geotimes July 2006 Jennifer Yauck	Shuttle liftoff, despite early snags The space shuttle Discovery lifted off for the International Space Station on Tuesday, July 4. It was the first launch since the shuttle fleet was grounded last summer -- and the first-ever on Independence Day!
Geotimes June 2004 Naomi Lubick	To Mars and Beyond The President's Commission on the Moon, Mars and Beyond presented its recommendations to the administration Wednesday morning, on how to proceed with the president's sweeping plan for future space travel.
Popular Mechanics January 27, 2010 Joe Pappalardo	What Happens If NASA's Constellation Program Dies? Reporters at the Orlando Sentinel created a stir today by breaking news -- citing anonymous sources -- that President Barack Obama's budget will not include any funds for hardware for NASA's human space flight program.
Geotimes June 2004 Harrison H. Schmitt	Space Exploration and Development: Why Humans? George Bush's new initiative places the president squarely in support of moving civilization into the solar system and "into the cosmos."
Popular Mechanics August 2009 Aldrin & Noland	Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track This May, the Obama administration announced it would appoint an independent council of aerospace experts to review NASA's human spaceflight objectives.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 William Sweet	Q&A With Jeremy Curtis UK space expert talks about cooperative, international efforts to explore space
Inc. July 2005 Alison Stein Wellner	Proving that You Have the Right Stuff A little-known, private digital imaging company called QuVIS landed a contract for the space shuttle Discovery's next mission.
Popular Mechanics December 23, 2008 Andrew Moseman	NASA'S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Is Ready for Its April Launch, but Will It Help the U.S. Return to the Moon? The orbiter is more than just another satellite looking at moon rocks -- this mission is one of the first steps in NASA's mission to return humans to the moon, and use the moon as a springboard to reach beyond.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John McHale	The Moon, Mars and beyond... The Space Shuttle program is due to be replaced by the Crew Exploration Vehicle.
Geotimes August 2005 Naomi Lubick	Space Administration Shakeup The middle of this month marks the end of the 120-day moratorium on hiring and firing by NASA's new administrator, Michael Griffin. NASA observers expect to see a flood of changes to the higher level administration officers, as Griffin makes known his preferences for running the space agency.
Geotimes February 2004 David Applegate	Grand Plan for Another World NASA's new mission to the Moon and Mars could have significant implications for its mission here on Earth.
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Erico Guizzo	Planetary Rovers: Are We Alone? Planetary rovers attempt to answer the most profound question in science
Wired December 2004 Andrew Chaikin	Man vs. Machine Today, decades after the final Apollo mission, we still haven't sent a human back to the moon - or beyond it.
Fast Company David Lumb	NASA Wants Your Ideas For A Mars Colony The challenge asks for written submissions detailing what astronaut-explorers will need to colonize a new planet -- and the space agency is offering a total of $15,000 in prize money, to be split between three winners.
IEEE Spectrum March 2005 Stephen Cass	Writing NASA's Marching Orders "New Moon Rising: The Making of America's New Space Vision and the Remaking of NASA," provides a lucid look at the messy and tangled process by which national science and engineering policy really gets made.
InternetNews August 24, 2007 Larry Barrett	NASA to Digitize Greatest Moments in Space Space junkies and scholars will be able to relive 50 years of space exploration from their browsers.