The Space Review

Like in its first season, the second season of National Geographic’s “Mars” mixed a drama about humans on Mars with documentary features, helping illustrate some of the long-standing problems regarding the advocacy of commercial human spaceflight. bit.ly/TSR3650

The decadal survey has become the primary way that the space science community sets research priorities and identifies missions to achieve them. Can it also be used for human space exploration? bit.ly/TSR3649

Blue Origin started off 2019 with another suborbital test flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle, as it seeks to start flying people later this year while breaking ground on a factory that will produce rocket engines for both itself and ULA. bit.ly/TSR3648

The history of robotic missions to explore the planets is a subject as big as the solar system itself. A new book shrinks that history down to a single volume, including missions that failed to make it off the drawing boards. bit.ly/TSR3646