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Rand Simberg
Rand Simberg is a recovering aerospace engineer and a consultant in space commercialization, space tourism and Internet security. He offers occasionally biting commentary about infinity and beyond at his weblog, Transterrestrial Musings.
Want Change? Let’s Try Truly Free Markets
Neither right nor left supports the "creative destruction" necessary for real economic progress.
Weeks Before the Election, Obama Remains an Enigma
Minimizing the candidate's problematic associations — or lying about them — has been the pattern of the Obama campaign.
NASA Turns 50 — Now What?
The next half-century of space exploration will likely look very different than the first.
Russian Aggression Carries High Cost for NASA
U.S.-Russian cooperation in space could become a casualty of war.
Democrats Throwing Up Scarecrows and Bogeymen
Straw man arguments and scare tactics are no way to win an election.
The Biggest ‘Non-Discovery’ on Mars in History
Water on the Red Planet? Big deal. Tell us something we don't already know.
Energy Independence: Shooting for the Moon
Comparing freedom from foreign oil to the moon landing is a ridiculous analogy.
The Rough Road to Space
NASA's plans for the future look like the same plans that have made the agency a bureaucratic dinosaur.
Time to Head for Mars?
NASA's Phoenix Mars probe touched down this weekend on the 47th anniversary of JFK’s "man on the moon" address to Congress. What will this mission mean for the future of human spaceflight initiatives?
Triumph and Tragedy in Space
Fifty years ago yesterday the US launched its first satellite, an achievement that gave the nation the confidence to move forward with more ambitious projects like putting a man on the moon. There were also less uplifting space anniversaries last month, writes Rand Simberg, who hopes that we don't one day "look back and see in January another anniversary -- of the time that the NASA human spaceflight program finally foundered."
