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The Artemis II crew and NASA chief, Jared Isaacman, took part April 29, 2026 in White House discussion of that mission and the future of America’s return to the Moon plans. Go to: https://www.whitehouse.gov/videos/artemis-ii-crew-visits-the-oval/ President Trump welcomes the astronauts of the Artemis II mission to the Oval Office at: https://www.youtube.com/live/4hLYFGv9ktM?si=08P7Ybz2PUMHhcll
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Colorado Springs, Colorado – Asteroid Apophis is a major rocky world visitor that in 2029 is whisking by Earth but also serves as a wake-up call for getting our planetary defense act together. This Friday the 13th 2029 Apophis passage is stirring up — as luck would have it — considerable multi-nation action plans […]
Earth’s moon is to be on the receiving end of a spent rocket stage in early August – the leftovers from a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch last year. Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, launched on January 15, 2025 and performed the first fully successful commercial lunar landing on March […]
Space-based data centers would place data processing and storage systems for AI and other computing needs into satellites. This could reduce the land, electricity, and water needed for data centers on Earth. Several companies have begun development of data centers in space, but there are engineering and economic barriers to deployment. The U.S. Government Accountability […]
The ongoing conflict regarding Iran and the Strait of Hormuz may well mirror a future situation off Earth – the use of cislunar space, the region between the moon and our planet. Think blockades, seizing of ships, impacts on the global economy, repercussions in terms of needed resources and markets, from fuel to high-tech semiconductors […]
The NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a new report assessing the agency’s efforts to obtain new Moon suits and updated microgravity suits for use on the International Space Station. The report — Suiting up for Success: Assessing NASA’s Next-Generation Spacesuits for Artemis and the ISS — explains that after nearly two decades, […]
Last month NASA chief Jared Issacman ripped off the band aid on the space agency’s back to the Moon agenda, calling for, in part, a speedy series of robotic missions to scout, experiment, and prepare for surface operations ahead of any “rebooting” of lunar landscape by astronauts in 2028. As part of NASA’s “Ignition” […]
Perseverance turns up a sticky find, explains Mars Guy in a new video episode. “Mars rovers create disturbances everywhere they drive, which sometimes can lead to bonus science. A recent drive by Perseverance produced the usual wheel tracks but also managed to reveal what looks like moist dirt,” Mars Guy reports. When the Perseverance […]
Signaling other intelligences beyond our solar system without elaborate and expensive electronic gear may be underway – but unknowingly. Kunyu City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is located in northwest China. On that site, huge pointer sprinklers are irrigating over 533 hectares of winter wheat fields located on the southern edge of the Taklimakan Desert. Then […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been dutifully probing Gale crater and Mount Sharp since the robot plopped down on the Red Planet on August 6, 2012. But there’s new news from the car-sized Mars machinery now wheeling about in the Glen Torridon region of Gale crater, a place that scientists believe was a locale where […]
