I've been to Kennedy Space Center, Orlando, where I saw the huge Saturn V rocket... This was used to get to people to the moon. It had a Lunar Module to propel itself on and off the moon's surface once the rest of the rocket had been ejected and dropped to Earth. So as far as the moon goes, t...

It seems to me that the biggest problem in the system is that the people voting on the proposal's questions have little to no commitment in the final product. In other words, the people who make the decision have no commitment over the final product, which anyone who knows anything about managing...

Yes, there is a next-generation Area 51 on the drawing board. It is very early in the design phase, so there's not really much to say about it. I wish I could indulge you in premature, wild speculation, but the design is still developing and changes literally every day. Besides, too much peeking ...

There is an estimate at Understanding Genetics that the minimum number of humans required for a colonization process is 160. It also mentions some animal populations that have rebounded from near extinction with much lower numbers. Strangely there is no mention of race in the answer there, and i...

We hear a lot about the usefulness of plants and bacteria in human colonization efforts in space, whether interstellar or within our solar system. Other organisms, on the other hand, seem to receive less attention. Animals are frequently studied in space, and there is a long history of the use o...