Peter Beck, Author at SpaceNews https://spacenews.com Covering the business and politics of space Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:57:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png Peter Beck, Author at SpaceNews https://spacenews.com 32 32 80681979 The Mars moment: Why now is the time to build the future  https://spacenews.com/the-mars-moment-why-now-is-the-time-to-build-the-future/ https://spacenews.com/the-mars-moment-why-now-is-the-time-to-build-the-future/#respond Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=556003

We’re entering a new era of space. One defined not by exploration alone, but by the infrastructure that makes a sustained presence possible.  For decades, our presence in space has […]

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]]> https://spacenews.com/the-mars-moment-why-now-is-the-time-to-build-the-future/feed/ 0 556003 Bringing Mars to Earth: solving Mars Sample Return https://spacenews.com/bringing-mars-to-earth-solving-mars-sample-return/ https://spacenews.com/bringing-mars-to-earth-solving-mars-sample-return/#respond Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=514116 This mosaic is made up of more than 100 images captured by NASA’s Viking 1 orbiter, which operated around Mars from 1976 to 1980. The scar across the center of the planet is the vast Valles Marineris canyon system.

Today we stand on the threshold of one of the most exciting moments in the history of space exploration: bringing a piece of another planet in our solar system back […]

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