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Summer/Fall 2018

Moon Direct

A purpose-driven plan to open the lunar frontier

Robert Zubrin

Spring/Summer 2016

Getting Over ‘Apolloism’

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

Rand Simberg

Winter 2004

The Human Explorer

Why sending robots is not enough

Robert Zubrin

Spring 2022

Do Americans Care About Space?

Making sense of six decades of public ambivalence about the final frontier

John Konicki and James Pethokoukis

Spring/Summer 2016

Getting Over ‘Apolloism’

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

Rand Simberg

Winter 2004

The Human Explorer

Why sending robots is not enough

Robert Zubrin

Spring 2022

Do Americans Care About Space?

Making sense of six decades of public ambivalence about the final frontier

John Konicki and James Pethokoukis

Fall 2015

Searching for Other Earths

How — and why — we look for exoplanets

Sara Seager

Winter 2024

What Is Space For?

Why we gaze and why we should go

William Boyce

Fall 2003

A New Vision for NASA

The trouble with NASA and the need for space exploration

Adam Keiper

Summer/Fall 2018

Lost on Mars

Why space colonization will disappoint you

Micah Meadowcroft

Fall 2022

Middle Seat to the Moon

How to keep the thrill alive once billionaires make space travel routine

Charles T. Rubin

Summer 2005

To Boldly Go

The end of Star Trek and Star Wars

The Editors of The New Atlantis

Symposium | Summer/Fall 2018

The Space Renaissance

Symposium | Fall 2007

A Half-Century in Space

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

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

Our Proud Human Future

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

Peter Augustine Lawler

The Mars Decision

How to show that American democracy can still do great things

Robert Zubrin

The Return of the Space Visionaries

How space tycoons are bringing back the dream of truly settling the “high frontier” — and how policy can catch up

Rand Simberg

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Moon Direct

Getting Over ‘Apolloism’

The Human Explorer

Do Americans Care About Space?

Getting Over ‘Apolloism’

The Human Explorer

Do Americans Care About Space?

Searching for Other Earths

What Is Space For?

A New Vision for NASA

Lost on Mars

Middle Seat to the Moon

To Boldly Go

The Space Renaissance

A Half-Century in Space

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NASA’s Next 50 Years

Grit, Gus, and Glory

Missing the Night Sky

Our Proud Human Future

The Mars Decision

The Return of the Space Visionaries

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