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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.
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 October 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Planets Redefined: Pluto Gets Demoted Members of the International Astronomical Union voted to demote Pluto, and to give the asteroid Ceres a promotion. Arriving at this new system, however, was not without controversy among astronomers, the public and even geologists.
Geotimes November 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Two More Moons for Pluto In addition to Pluto's confirmed moon Charon, astronomers have detected two more orbiting celestial bodies, which could help reveal how the planet and moon system formed.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 John McHale	Manned Space Missions, International Space Station, Get Increases in 2008 NASA Budget Request Officials at NASA are looking for increased funding for the International Space Station, manned space systems and other programs that fulfill President Bush's goal of reaching the Moon by the end of the decade.
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.
Smithsonian October 2006 Robert Irion	What Makes a Planet? As just about everyone in the solar system knows by now, members of the International Astronomical Union came up with a new definition of planets that leaves Pluto out in the cold.
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.
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.
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.
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Erico Guizzo	Planetary Rovers: Are We Alone? Planetary rovers attempt to answer the most profound question in science
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.
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.
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.
Popular Mechanics December 2005 Aldrin & Noland	Roadmap To Mars So far, NASA's plan to reach the red planet has been short on detail. Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin unveils his own step-by-step proposal for mankind's next giant leap.
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.
Geotimes December 2006	Top Space News Stories of 2006 Titan's Earthly and Unearthly Features... Space Technologies Fly, Lift and Roll on...Deep Impact Still Impresses... etc.
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 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.
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.
Geotimes September 2003 Fred Schwab	Manned Space Exploration: Should We Give it Up? Do the risks of sending humans into space justify the ends? Is it time to de-emphasize "astronaut science," and to concentrate instead on unmanned missions into space
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 David A. Mindell	The End Of The Cult Of The Astronaut How do you justify human spaceflight?
Geotimes March 2004	Sedna: Newly sighted planetoid in the solar system At the edge of the solar system, astronomers have unexpectedly sighted an object slightly smaller and farther from the Sun than Pluto -- not quite another planet, but not a temporary visitor either.
Fast Company Daniel Terdiman	Dream Job Alert! NASA Puts Out Call For New Astronauts NASA today put out a call for new astronauts, including those who might support a future manned mission to Mars.
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 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 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.
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 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
Popular Mechanics September 4, 2007 Jill Tarter	Where Will the Next 50 Years in Space Take Us? Expert Opinions Leading thinkers from Buzz Aldrin (a robot fan) to Arthur C. Clarke (he wants a sub-orbital joyride) share their thoughts on where space will take us in the half-century ahead.
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.
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.
BusinessWeek October 28, 2010 Paul M. Barrett	NASA: Lost in Space After 30 years, the Shuttle program will end. How do you outsource the astronaut business?
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.
Fast Company December 1, 2007 Charles Fishman	To The Moon! (In a Minivan) How NASA and Lockheed Martin are building a successor to the Space Shuttle - using off-the-shelf technology and plain old pragmatism.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Anatoly Zak	A Russian Return to a Martian Moon Russia hopes to reignite its deep-space program with a mission to Phobos
Popular Mechanics November 20, 2008 Andrew Moseman	For 10th Anniversary, 10 Headaches and Near-Mishaps on the International Space Station It's not the fault of any single mishap, but today is the space station's 10th birthday and it's still not fully assembled.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Barry E. DiGregorio	China Reaches For the Red Planet A joint project with Russia anticipates retrieving soil from the Martian moon Phobos.
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.
Popular Mechanics February 2009	NASA & Its Discontents: Frustrated Engineers Battle with NASA over the Future of Spaceflight The economic crisis, growing tensions with Russia and political change in Washington are already prompting calls to rewrite the space agency's plan.
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.
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
Wired April 2001 Tom McNichol	Beyond Cool NASA cost-cutters want to kill a pioneering probe to the ice-cold edge of the solar system. First they have to reckon with the Pluto Underground...
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John Rhea	Money for space Space exploration is becoming politically fashionable again, and advanced technology firms would be well advised to get on board while the getting is good.
Scientific American July 2005 Mark Alpert	Feeling the Pinch Voyager 1, now speeding out of the solar system after 28 years in space, is one of the NASA missions facing budget cuts, even though the craft is reporting remarkable discoveries.
Popular Mechanics February 1, 2008 Thomas D. Jones	5 Years Later, 5 Hard Lessons From the Columbia Shuttle Disaster: Resident Astronaut As NASA readies Atlantis for a Feb. 7 launch to the International Space Station, it observes a week packed with painful memories of three spaceflight tragedies: Apollo 1, Challenger and the fifth anniversary of the loss of Columbia.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Guterl & Heger	Mars Is Hard Fifty years ago, space experts thought we'd be there by now. Here's why we're not
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.
Scientific American November 2007 Robert Zubrin	Don't Wreck the Mars Program Devoting all the funding to just one mission would be a mistake.
Popular Mechanics September 2007 Thomas D. Jones	The Lunar Base: How to Settle the Moon (and Pay for Sleepovers) A four-time Space Shuttle astronaut explains what life will be like on NASA's four-man outpost come 2020, when the anti-Apollo mission will cast off aboard a new rocket and send explorers to hazardous territory.