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The effects of Martian physical and orbital features will cause problems to the health of the crew of a manned mission to the Red Planet if not understood and mitigated.

Craig Nelson's history of man's first expedition to another world combines first hand accounts, recollections, and vivid descriptions in an engaging and informed account.

In the second half of 1968, the country explodes into violence following the deaths of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.

Move over, Moon, there's a new solar system star in town. Mars, the famed red planet, is overtaking our humble lone satellite as NASA's favorite destination.

Most writers, both experienced and unskilled, view setting as merely the time and place in which their story takes place, but this could not be further from the truth.

NASA deployed the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to find water or ice at the south pole of the moon.

Gender identities are socially constructed and reinforced in advertising and other media. A 2009 commercial for the Ford F-150 truck reinforces a violent masculinity.

ABC's new science fiction drama "Defying Gravity" takes eight astronauts on a dangerous six-year mission to explore the Solar System and each other.

Pennies for Peace is an international service-learning program sponsored by Greg Mortenson and the Central Asia Institute, who build schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

With four robotic spacecraft in orbit and two Geologist rovers on opposite sides of the planet's surface, it's a challenge to sort out the current Mars missions.

David Oliver Relin recounts the story of Greg Mortenson's dangerous mission to build schools in the wildest regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Taliban's territory.