November 11th, 2026
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A long-term Holy Grail goal at NASA has been the ability to robotically haul back to Earth specimens from the Red Planet. A new initiative for Mars Sample Return (MSR) is about to be kick-started by NASA called the Perseverance Sample Retrieval Architecture, or PSRA in space shorthand. The plan is to establish a fresh […]
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The Last Humans – UFOs, Global Security, and the Threat to State Sovereignty by Alexander Wendt; Oxford University Press; 240 pages (hardcover); October 2026 ; $29.99 There is no doubt that the prospect of alien contact is commanding more and more attention. Much of the public discourse has been heighted by the on-going onslaught of […]
Another attempt by NASA is being kick-started to return Mars samples to Earth. The initiative to determine a NASA strategy for lobbing back to Earth Mars collectibles is called the Perseverance Sample Retrieval Architecture or PSRA. The purpose of PSRA is to develop impartial recommendations for retrieving the Martian samples collected by Perseverance and delivering […]
Flight 15 of the SpaceX Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Friday, November 13, pending regulatory approval. The 75-minute launch window will open at 4:45 p.m. Central “Texas” Time. The upcoming flight is planned to be the first to return both Starship and the Super Heavy booster to the launch site for catch. […]
The just-released word from NASA is that the two ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft have each successfully completed a powered Earth flyby. They have used Earth’s gravity in combination with a sustained engine burn to slingshot themselves toward Mars. With these successful maneuvers complete, the twin spacecraft are on target to […]
NASA has announced a high school and post-secondary students are invited to explore solutions to the challenges NASA will face when creating a long-term facility for astronauts to live and work on the Moon. “The Moon Base will enable scientists and engineers to conduct research, test new technologies in extreme environments, and prepare for deeper […]
U.S. President Trump: “NASA is BACK, and Americans will pioneer the next generation of space” President Trump delivered remarks Friday at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. He participated in NASA’s “Max Power” – an aerospace technology expo that showcases advances in aviation, space exploration and emerging technologies. To view the event, […]
Since its launch in 2004, and after two decades of watching space for gamma-ray bursts, NASA’s Swift Observatory reentered into Earth’s atmosphere on November 4. Various tracking groups, such as The Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies (CORDS), relying of U.S. Space Force tracking data, pegged the spacecraft’s uncontrolled demise. Weighing some […]
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory careened into the Earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday, Nov. 4, almost 22 years after launch. The U.S. Space Force confirmed that the Swift spacecraft re-entered Earth’s atmosphere at 7:39 a.m. EST Wednesday over the North Sumatra region of Indonesia, at approximately 3.4 degrees north latitude and 98.6 degrees east longitude. According […]
NASA’s twin Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) will perform a “powered” flyby of Earth, combining Earth’s gravity with an engine burn, to slingshot itself toward Mars. The first spacecraft will conduct its flyby and engine burn around 5 a.m. EST on Saturday, Nov. 7. The second will do so two days later, […]
