Straight from the panda’s mouth: What NASA thinks it’s for, Charles Seife “What’s left is science — and science is where NASA’s greatest achievements lie. NASA spacecraft are helping us answer some of the biggest questions in the universe. (Heck, I wrote an entire book describing a revolution in cosmology sparked, in part, by NASA programs like Hubble, WMAP, and COBE.) But that drive is fundamentally incompatible with the agency’s […]

NASA Tries to Rewrite the Book on Science Fiction, Wall Street Journal “Getting a message across embedded in a narrative rather than as an overt ad or press release is a subtle way of trying to influence people’s minds,” says Charles Seife, author of “Decoding the Universe,” who has written about NASA’s efforts to rebrand itself. “It makes me worry about propaganda.” Enidia Santiago-Arce, a NASA official who is coordinating […]