Six volunteers will today be locked up together in a windowless, mock spaceship for 520 days. The ‘astronauts’ will be trapped inside the capsule for a simulated flight to Mars, and are expected to live and work as if they are on the 43-million mile journey for real. The all-male crew will not endure weightlessness, but from today they will follow a harsh regimen of experiments and exercise. The... 

July 20th was the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Fortunately some of the elderly men who walked on the moon in 1969 and the early ’70s, expressed their opinion of the current state of NASA and America’s space program. According to an article from Reuters “The U.S. investment in the Apollo space program, which landed men on the moon, paid off handsomely, unlike the $100...