Mark Whittington, The Hill

Mark Whittington

The Hill

Houston, TX, United States

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  • The Hill
  • The Daily Caller
  • BlastingNews
  • Business Insider
  • Examiner.com

Past articles by Mark:

Technology is easy but politics is hard for NASA's Lunar Human Landing System

The technical challenges of taking America and ultimately the world back to the moon are immense, but the political obstacles might be bigger. → Read More

Inspiration4 and the quest to cure childhood cancer

Inspiration4 proves that space travel can provide solutions to problems on Earth. → Read More

Elon Musk's SpaceX vs. the environmentalists

The big threat to SpaceX’s operation in Boca Chica, Texas, and the SpaceX Starship’s development comes from the environmental lobby. → Read More

How will Biden's Afghanistan debacle impact NASA's Artemis return to the moon?

Joe Biden’s continued zombie presidency is likely to be a detriment to getting more funding for NASA, expanding and strengthening the Artemis Alliance, and keeping the return to the moon on schedule. → Read More

Blue Origin's Jeff Bezos wages lawfare on NASA and SpaceX

Jeff Bezos, the man who revolutionized the retail industry, may have doomed Blue Origin from ever getting a major government contract with NASA. → Read More

Can SpaceX's Elon Musk help NASA get back to the moon by 2024 after all?

The technical problems of building and flying the lunar Starship, creating a lunar surface spacesuit are serious but not insurmountable. → Read More

Can SpaceX’s Elon Musk help NASA get back to the moon by 2024 after all?

The technical problems of building and flying the lunar Starship, creating a lunar surface spacesuit are serious but not insurmountable. → Read More

Now someone wants to slap a SPACE Tax on Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, et al

Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) wants to slap a tax on space tourism flights, but a better approach would be to revive the Zero Gravity, Zero Tax Act. → Read More

The billionaires' space race is just the beginning

The suborbital jaunts accomplished by some billionaires were not just expressions of egos. They constituted the next steps in the creation of a brand-new industry, space tourism. → Read More

The Chinese-Russian Lunar Axis adopts a plan from the late Paul Spudis

A group of Russian and Chinese space officials revealed plans for what they call an "International Lunar Research Station." → Read More

NASA's Bill Nelson shows how sausage making will take America back to the moon

Bill Nelson, the NASA chief, suggested that it would be a good idea if Congress could give the space agency about $11.6 billion of an infrastructure bill. → Read More

The day President Kennedy sent America to the moon

To turn President Kennedy’s rhetoric around, the president proposed to “impress mankind” by having the United States land a man on the moon and return him safely to the Earth before any other country. → Read More

Musk's SpaceX has a competitive advantage over Bezos' Blue Origin

SpaceX has a competitive advantage over Blue Origin when it comes to helping NASA return to the moon. → Read More

What should NASA do about the Chinese space station?

NASA should not reach out to the Chinese and attempt to forge any kind of space cooperation agreement in which Americans fly on their space station in return for Chinese astronauts doing tours on the International Space Station. → Read More

SpaceX's Elon Musk has become the coolest capitalist of them all

Elon Musk guest hosting Saturday Night Live suggests that he has transformed from just another billionaire, albeit one who builds rocket ships and electric cars, into a bona fide celebrity. → Read More

Bill Nelson is a born-again supporter of commercial space at NASA

The one thing that raised a lot of eyebrows during his confirmation hearing, was Bill Nelson’s enthusiastic support for commercial space at NASA. → Read More

Has the Biden administration abandoned the idea of a moon base?

While the overall NASA budget will be increased by $1.5 billion, the Artemis program will get a paltry $325 million boost. However, part of the language about Artemis is concerning. → Read More

Why does Rep. Johnson oppose NASA's commercial human landing system?

Rep. Johnson, who currently chairs the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, believes that the commercial approach is not the way to go. → Read More

Bernie Sanders goes after Elon Musk for wanting to explore space

Sen. Sanders could not be clearer in his desire to tax away all of the resources Elon Musk and others are using to build and fly rockets and instead apply them to social problems. → Read More

The new race to the moon: the Artemis Alliance vs. the Sino-Russian Axis

China and Russia have challenged the United States and the rest of the world to a new race to the moon. → Read More