The Space Review

The Space Review is a complimentary online magazine that releases new content every week, featuring detailed articles, essays, opinions, and reviews focused on space exploration and development. It was established in February 2003 by Jeff Foust, who serves as the editor, publisher, and a frequent contributor.

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Review: From the Laboratory to the Moon

1 week ago | thespacereview.com | Jeff Foust

From the Laboratory to the Moon: The Quiet Genius of George R. Carruthersby David H. DeVorkinThe MIT Press, 2025paperback, 456 pp., illus. ISBN 978-0-262-55139-7US$75.00Some time this fall, a Falcon 9 will launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center carrying three heliophysics spacecraft for NASA and NOAA.
An asteroid’s threatened impact may still impact planetary defense

2 weeks ago | thespacereview.com | Jeff Foust

NASA’s NEO Surveyor mission is set to launch as soon as the fall of 2027 to search for near Earth asteroids. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)It says something about the state of the world that, for a brief time earlier this year, the prospect of death from the skies was a welcomed distraction. In January, observations of the near Earth asteroid 2024 YR4, discovered near the end of last year, showed a small chance that it would hit the Earth in December 2032.
Review: Extraterrestrial Life

3 weeks ago | thespacereview.com | Jeff Foust

Extraterrestrial Life: We Are Not Aloneby Antonino Del PopoloSpringer, 2025paperback, 156 pp., illus. ISBN 978-3-031-83496-7US$37.99It’s a familiar trajectory for astrobiology stories. Scientists announce the discovery of a biosignature, or at least a potential biosignature, on another world in our solar system or beyond. The announcement is made at a conference, or in a paper provided to media under embargo, resulting in a surge of stories touting the discovery.
Budget cuts and the fraying of international partnerships

3 weeks ago | thespacereview.com | Jeff Foust

The White House's 2026 budget proposal would cancel the lunar Gateway, a NASA-led program with contributions from Canada, Europe, Japan and the UAE. (credit: NASA)Even if you know the axe is falling, it doesn’t make it any less painful. It was clear for weeks that the White House would propose major cuts to NASA in its fiscal year 2026 budget request.
The Space Review: Playing catchup

1 month ago | thespacereview.com | Jeff Foust

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V lifts off April 28 carrying the first set of 27 operational Project Kuiper satellites for Amazon. (credit: ULA)Last Monday evening, an Atlas V lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. If you hadn’t been paying close attention to the launch, you might think it was a classified mission.
Isaacman revisited

1 month ago | thespacereview.com | Jeff Foust

Jared Isaacman followed up on his April 9 confirmation hearing with written answers to additional questions from senators. (credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)On Wednesday, the Senate Commerce Committee is scheduled to take up Jared Isaacman’s nomination to be NASA administrator, voting whether to advance the nomination to the full Senate for a later confirmation vote. That confirmation is now all but inevitable, given no public Republican opposition to him.
Review: Planetary Defenders

1 month ago | thespacereview.com | Jeff Foust

Planetary Defendersdirected by Scott Bednar and Jessie Wilde75 min., not ratedLast year, NASA officially entered the streaming era. The agency retired its long-running NASA TV linear television channel, best known for coverage of missions, briefings, and related events, interspersed with documentaries, educational shows, and other historical programming. In its place was a streaming service called (what else?) NASA+.
Space weather and spaceflight

1 month ago | thespacereview.com | Jeff Foust

Space weather created increased atmospheric drag that shortened the lives of Capella Space’s Whitney series of radar imaging satellites. (credit: Capella Space)At the same time the White House delivered bad news to NASA’s science programs in the form of its near-final “passback” budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 (see “All of the above, or none?”, The Space Review, April 14, 2025), it was offering its own radical changes to NOAA.
All of the above, or none?

1 month ago | thespacereview.com | Jeff Foust

Jared Isaacman speaks at his April 9 Senate confirmation hearing on his nomination to be NASA administrator. (credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)Since Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, and especially since he was sworn in nearly three months ago, the space community has wondered what the administration would do with NASA.
Review: Mars and the Earthlings

1 month ago | thespacereview.com | Jeff Foust

Mars and the Earthlings: A Realistic View on Mars Exploration and Settlementby Cyprien Verseux, Muriel Gargaud, Kirsi Lehto, and Michel Viso (eds.)Springer, 2025hardcover, 452 pp., illus. ISBN 978-3-031-66880-7US$179.99To say that opinions about exactly when humans will make to Mars widely vary is an understatement.