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Beyond Earth

How to go — and why: visions of a human future in which we not only endure but prevail

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Space Stations •
Moon •
Mars •
Settlement •
NASA •
Astronomy •
Space Policy •
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Essay | Spring 2018

Spring 2018

  • James Poulos

For the Love of Mars

Why settling the Red Planet can lift us from our antihuman malaise

James Poulos

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Review | Spring 2017

Spring 2017

  • George Weigel

Grit, Gus, and Glory

Restoring the reputation of an unsung American hero

George Weigel

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Online Exclusive | October 21, 2016

October 21, 2016

  • Robert Zubrin

Colonizing Mars

A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System

Robert Zubrin

Essay | Spring/Summer 2016

Spring/Summer 2016

  • Rand Simberg

Getting Over ‘Apolloism’

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

Rand Simberg

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Online Exclusive | June 10, 2016

June 10, 2016

  • Rand Simberg

Keep the FAA’s Head in the Clouds

Why the Agency Should Not Be Regulating Space

Rand Simberg

Essay | Winter 2016

Winter 2016

  • Jacob Hoerger

Missing the Night Sky

On light pollution, enlightenment, and our sense of finitude

Jacob Hoerger

Essay | Fall 2015

Fall 2015

  • Marcelo Gleiser

Meaning in a Silent Universe

On overcoming our sense of cosmic angst

From: Human Uniqueness in the Cosmos

Marcelo Gleiser

Essay | Fall 2015

Fall 2015

  • Luke A. Barnes

The Fine-Tuning of Nature’s Laws

What physics tells us about the improbability of life

From: Human Uniqueness in the Cosmos

Luke A. Barnes

Essay | Fall 2015

Fall 2015

  • Sara Seager

Searching for Other Earths

How — and why — we look for exoplanets

From: Human Uniqueness in the Cosmos

Sara Seager

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Review | Fall 2015

Fall 2015

  • Ari Schulman

The X-Files and the Demon-Haunted World

On why we want to believe

Ari Schulman

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