OpinionOctober 1, 2024
NASA Needs a ‘Lunar Marathon’ to Match China on the Moon
We are in a new and different kind of moon race, one the U.S. is losing. To win, says a former NASA official, we need new strategies
Stories by Thomas Zurbuchen
Thomas Zurbuchen is currently working as professor and director of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology’s ETH Zürich | Space, as well as an aerospace industry speaker, consultant and board member. He was the longest continually running head of science at NASA from 2016 to 2022 responsible for 130 missions with 37 launches including JWST, Parker and Perseverance. He currently gives talks with Nadia Drake about the search for life beyond Earth and is working with her on a project about his experiences at NASA and in the space sciences.
OpinionAugust 2, 2024
NASA Losing VIPER Rover Defangs the Science from Planned Moon Landings
A former space agency official argues that cutting a robotic explorer pulls the scientific teeth from the Artemis program