Jim Oberg's Pioneering Space

Focus On: Current - Future - Past

CURRENT

08/02/2007 - MSNBC.com: Phoenix trip to Mars offers suspense galore

03/08/2006 - MSNBC.com: Mars orbiter faces NASA’s ‘Ghoulish’ past

06/04/2005 - MSNBC.com: NASA frees rover from Martian sand trap

05/09/2005 - MSNBC.com: Mars probe’s radar system hits snag

05/05/2005 - MSNBC.com: Radar readied to search for Martian water

05/02/2005 - DISCOVERY-CANADA: 'Daily Planet' appearance discussing the European MARSIS radar.

03/22/2005 - MSNBC.com: “Scientist at center of Mars flap speaks out (Carol Stoker)”

03/11/2005 - MSNBC.com: Dust devil caught on Mars

02/11/2005 - MSNBC.com: “Does Mars need women? Russians say no”

Summer 2005 - AD ASTRA magazine (PDF File): "Spacemen become inventive by necessity"

12/13/2004 - MSNBC.com: Mars rover rises from crater for new trek

07/06/2004 - MSNBC.com: Spirit set for '3,000-meter-tune-up' ahead of hill climb

05/01/2004 - Remote Control Car Magazine: Running the Mars Rovers

04/21/2004 - MSNBC.com: Mars mission far from over

03/29/2004 - MSNBC.com: Space station offers key lessons for Mars

03/08/2004 - MSNBC.com: Avoiding the "F Word" on Mars

01/14/2004 - USA TODAY: “Think outside moon-Mars box: Maybe visit asteroid”

01/14/2004 - DISCOVERY-CANADA: Streaming-Video of Jim Oberg on 'Daily Planet' re Bush Space Policy

12/19/2003 - MSNBC.com: The Misleading 'Death Planet' Myth

11/19/2003 - MSNBC.com: Japan Admits Nozomi Probe is Failing

11/14/2003 - Japanese Officials Insist Hope Remains

06/17/2003 - USA Today.com: The International Mars Fleet

FUTURE

Winter/2007 - AD ASTRA Magazine: Stepping Stones to Mars -- Bypass the Moon (PDF File)

09/2007 - IEEE Spectrum: Russians Prepare to Go to Mars Without Leaving the Ground

Summer/2006 - AD ASTRA Magazine: No Crew Boredom On Long Road To Mars (PDF File)

10/20/2004 - Book Excerpt: Outbound to Mars -- No Time for Boredom

10/20/2004 - Book Excerpt: Mars Medical Emergency Simulation

10/11/2004 - MSNBC.com: “No women allowed (500-day Mars simulation)”

04/01/2004 - Popular Science: The NEXT Big Mars Rover

02/09/2004 - Weekly Standard: Going to Mars isn’t nearly as expensive as you’ve heard

01/04/2004 - MSNBC.com: Bringing space costs back down to Earth

07/01/2003 - Popular Science: Red Planet Blues

01/01/2001 - American Legion: The Rocky Road to Mars

01/01/2001 - Interview: Apollo Astronaut Charlie Duke on Mars Flight Challenges

04/14/2000 - Galaxy Online: Violence in Russian Space Simulator

02/01/2000 - Russia Helps NASA Plan Man-to-Mars

03/01/2000 - Scientific American, w/ Buzz Aldrin: Mars ‘Cycling Space Station’

01-02/1999 -Technology Review: Missionaries to Mars

05/20/1991 - Roll Call: Terraforming

PAST

03/08/2006 - MSNBC.com: Mars orbiter faces NASA’s ‘Ghoulish’ past

06/30/2000 -Space.com: The Fobos-2 Failure

02/01/2000 - Scientific American: Lessons of NASA 1999 Mars Failures

04/15/2000 - New Scientist: Houston We Have a Problem

12/01/1999 - Award Given for Mars Related Journalism

12/01/1999 - The 1999 Mars Climate Orbiter Debacle

03/06/1999 - Russia’s Mars-96 Debacle

01/01/1999 - Technology Review: Missionaries to Mars