STEM's Future Uptick
/If I were king, I would set our nation’s space program on a trajectory that would inspire not just the international community but our own youth.
Read MoreIf I were king, I would set our nation’s space program on a trajectory that would inspire not just the international community but our own youth.
Read MoreAnother important reason to fund, and share, the adventure of human space flight is similar to what we offered Russian technologists in the Nineties: an opportunity for employment. A trained engineer or chemist without hope is ripe for work producing technology in the cause of terrorism.
Read MoreThe Apollo program inspired students to go into science, technology, engineering and math. Today, most STEM Ph.D.'s in America get awarded to foreign students.
Read MoreIt really wasn’t that long ago when the two greatest superpowers were vying to put satellites into space. Now, 50 nations have their own satellites in low Earth orbit. If you’re a Thailand, say, you can call Space Systems/Loral, a Canadian-owned company based in Palo Alto, California, and tell them you want to put a satellite into geostationary orbit for television broadcasting or military communications. You can have the thing in orbit 25,000 miles above Earth within two years.