Space adventures
These are adventures that take place in outer space. I think the human spirit has a need to aspire to be more, and what could be more inspirational than exploring the final frontier.
In case you didn't hear, I made round 2.5 of the Mars One project and my quest to be the first person to bicycle two planets. Listen to my NPR interview.
10 years later and this is still the most amazing image I have ever seen, the most faraway reaches of our universe ever photographed. In this tiny pinprick of one of the darkest regions of the sky, are 10,000 galaxies.
I am one of the 297 people selected from the United States, half which are woman and about 75 in my age group. I am excited to be part of this! Even in a thousand years everyone will remember the first trip to Mars.
Scott applied to go to Mars and help establish a colony in 2023 — and so can you! Here is my application letter and video — it's about inspiring humanity.
I've been posting stories about adventurers (argonauts or in this case an astronaut) for about 13 years, despite many people saying there is nothing left to explore.
Our columnist Brook Mantia welcomes a a true space pioneer, Dennis Tito, back to Earth.
The mission to the moon has inspired generations. For a moment, it united humanity, and served to "to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills."
Meet our featured explorer Carl Sagan. A man who spent his life bringing science to the layperson
Our Space Tourism columnist, Brooke, recounts her visit to the 2nd Annual Lunar Development Conference, focusing on a permanent return to the Moon.
John S. Spencer is a renaissance man for the millennium with a fierce passion for creating humanity's future in space.
If you've got a yen for space travel, but you've been too busy to sign up for astronaut training, here are some space programs you can join now.
For thousands of years, humans have looked towards the heavens, questioning: Who created all this? What's out there? Are we alone in the universe? Will we ever answer these questions?