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: Planetary Defenders

3 days 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 week 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 week 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

2 weeks 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.
Europe’s launch challenge

3 weeks ago | thespacereview.com | Jeff Foust

Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum lifts off on its inaugural flight March 30. (credit: Brady Kenniston/Isar Aerospace)On Sunday at 12:30pm local time, a rocket lifted off from a seaside pad called Andøya Spaceport in northern Norway into blue skies. With a snow-covered mountain in the background, the Spectrum rocket developed by Isar Aerospace slowly ascended. The launch appeared to be going well enough one could take a second to appreciate a scenic view far different than Cape Canaveral or Baikonur.
Review: The Moonwalkers and a Kennedy Center space festival

3 weeks ago | thespacereview.com | Jeff Foust

An audience is treated to a Saturn V launch in The Moonwalkers at the Kennedy Center. (credit: J. Foust)Even more than 50 years after Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt lifted off from the Moon, the appetite for Apollo nostalgia is unsated. There continues to be films, books, and more about the original race to the Moon even as a new one shapes up involving the United States and China, one that promises to finally return humans to the lunar surface late this decade, perhaps.
Review: Space Piracy

1 month ago | thespacereview.com | Jeff Foust

Space Piracy: Preparing for a Criminal Crisis in Orbitby Marc Feldman and Hugh TaylorWiley, 2025hardcover, 256 pp., illus. ISBN 978-1-394-24020-3US$30The term “space piracy” most likely brings to mind science fiction, and probably not great science fiction at that (such as the mid-80s movie The Ice Pirates.) The authors of the new book Space Piracy acknowledge that and even embrace it, but they are very serious about the subject.
The new wave of asteroid mining ventures

1 month ago | thespacereview.com | Jeff Foust

AstroForge’s Odin spacecraft before launch as a secondary payload on the IM-2 mission. The spacecraft suffered technical problems after launch that will keep it from prospecting a near Earth asteroid. (credit: AstroForge)For Matt Gialich, being scared wasn’t just acceptable. It was a requirement.
ATLAC and the early emergence of lunar governance

1 month ago | thespacereview.com | Dennis O’Brien

The development of commercial capabilities like Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost 1 lander is providing new urgency to efforts to coordinate and even govern such activities on the Moon. (credit: Firefly Aerospace)At its February meeting, the United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) formally created ATLAC, the Action Team on Lunar Activities Consultation.
Review: Lunar Commerce

1 month ago | thespacereview.com | Jeff Foust

Lunar Commerce: A Primerby Derek WebberSpringer, 2024hardcover, 208 pp., illus. ISBN 978-3-031-53420-1US$39.99Commercial activities are off to a shaky start on the Moon. So far only one company can claim a fully successful (or reasonably close) lunar landing: Firefly Aerospace, whose Blue Ghost 1 lander signed off Sunday night shortly after sunset at its Mare Crisium landing site.