Oxygen found by Rosetta Mission supports claims of Microbial Life on Comet

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta Mission has discovered lots of molecular oxygen being produced in the core of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. This is compelling evidence in support of the claims made by British astrobiologists that the comet is rich with microbial life. Normally, the discovery of oxygen being produced would generate great scientific excitement over the…

The day NASA covered up Men on Mars

It started as a day like many others for Jackie and her NASA colleagues whose job in 1979, was to monitor NASA’s telemetry equipment with the Viking Mission. If anything went wrong with the equipment, her job was to get it back up and running as fast as possible. What she and her colleagues saw…

Humans on Mars: Obama makes pledge in State of the Union

President Obama pledged to land humans on Mars in last night’s State of the Union speech. In a show of his commitment he arranged to have astronaut Scott Kelly in the audience. Kelly is scheduled to spend a year in the International Space Station. Kelly’s mission is vital for a future manned mission to Mars…