Welcome to our 200th blog posting. It seems appropriate to write this article on a milestone date in the advancement of human technology in space. For today is the day that NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory, known also as Curiosity, has arrived on the surface of Mars to begin its p

By the end of 2012 Mars will have many human-built robots on its surface, in orbit around it, some artifacts and some operational. In our last blog we talked about the compelling question we are trying to get the answers to in visiting Mars. What is our ultimate goal? Is it creating a