March 25th, 2026
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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman: “To return Americans to the Moon, NASA is shifting to an iterative, execution-focused approach – just as we did during Apollo. We are standardizing rocket architecture, embedding NASA expertise across industry, and increasing launch cadence to support sustained lunar operations. Demand signal We are sending a demand signal for crewed missions […]
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NASA will host a major public event today at 9 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters in Washington D.C. The event will explain how NASA is executing President Donald J. Trump’s National Space Policy. Also on tap are details regarding the acceleration of preparations for America’s return to the surface […]
Two projected space projects — orbital data centers and a network of Earth-circling solar reflectors – have stirred up the Center for Space Environmentalism. The group is dedicated to the protection of the space environment and the preservation of outer space as a human environment. They have opposed the two initiatives, filing their concerns on […]
SpaceX leader, Elon Musk, spotlights electromagnetic mass drivers on the Moon in a March 21 presentation. Go to: https://x.com/i/status/2035572007983563217 Go to my earlier story – “Catapult to the Future: Elon Musk’s Moon Factory Revisits the Mass Driver” – at: https://www.leonarddavid.com/catapult-to-the-future-elon-musks-moon-factory-revisits-the-mass-driver/
Asteroid mining will play a critical role in building the trillion dollar space economy. That’s the visionary mission of Los Angeles – based TransAstra. To make that quest real, the group is developing four core capabilities: “Detect, Capture, Move, and Process.” In the bag In October 2025, TransAstra deployed a “Capture Bag” on the International […]
In his online “Diary of the 12th Man”, Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut, has completed another chapter with a section dedicated to “Origin of Life.” “I have undertaken a long-running project to write a personal account of the Apollo 17 Mission on which I flew to the Moon as the Lunar Module Pilot and scientist,” […]
SpaceShipOne was the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites in Mojave, California. Melvill’s 2004 flight (September 29) along with the late Brian Binnie in SpaceshipOne (October 4, 2004) enabled the project team run by noted aerospace designer, Burt Rutan, to win the Ansari X Prize of $10 million. Melvill made his second spaceflight in SpaceShipOne, […]
Moon mining for Helium-3 has been given a boost by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Isotope Program (DOE IP). Black Moon Energy Corporation of Houston, Texas has announced it has secured a contract to supply Helium-3 to the DOE IP. That contract marks a key milestone in the company’s intention to develop the first […]
Yet another wait-a-minute moment. While it remains unclear whether or not new NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman favors putting in place a lunar Gateway, the European Space Agency has just released a schematic overview of the multi-component station. The lunar Gateway is envisioned by advocates as the first international space station around the Moon, dedicated to […]
Engineers are targeting 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time today, Thursday, March 19, to start rolling the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft to Launch Pad 39B at the NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 will make the four-mile route from Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad. […]
