December 30th, 2025
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For an agency shooting for the Moon and onward to Mars, NASA in 2025 has been more on a roller coaster ride of proposed budget cuts, personnel layoffs, and potential elimination of science missions. A key question: Have these various traumas changed NASA dramatically, and potentially permanently? Battle lines are being drawn and now Congress […]
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The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Aerospace Security Project has rolled out its on demand video of a “Year in Review” – delving into the developments reshaping the space landscape. Over the past year, global space activity continued to expand. Launch numbers climbed, satellite constellations surged. There’s a widening roster of nations asserting […]
China’s Shenzhou-21 crew has been busily carrying out an array of experiments aboard the country’s Tiangong space station. The taikonaut threesome — mission commander Zhang Lu, and astronauts Wu Fei and Zhang Hongzhang – were launched on November 1st to begin their six-month voyage. Experiment focus As noted by China Central Television (CCTV), the three […]
Mars Guy explains that NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover carries a camera that was designed for the sole purpose of recording, for the first time, video of a Mars landing. But a few years after that landing, it was repurposed to shoot continuous images during drives, including its latest one. Watch Curiosity’s latest drive on Mars. […]
Nuclear Weapons in Space – Orbital Bombardment and Strategic Stability has been issued by the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). Written by Aaron Stein, President of the FPRI, this report points out that space technology is inherently dual-use. “The platforms used to launch satellites can also be used to deliver atomic weapons. The same is […]
The profound prospect of finding out that “we’re not alone” may also have weighty wait-a-minute consequences. A recent poll indicates that half of Americans believe aliens have visited Earth. The poll was produced by YouGov US, an international online research data and analytics technology group. This polling finds that most Americans believe aliens exist, and […]
Russia’s Roscosmos space agency has announced that a government contract has been struck with NPO Lavochkin to create a lunar power station by 2036. It is not immediately clear in the Roscosmos statement if that power station would be nuclear. However, the contract implementation period is 2025–2036 and involves Rosatom and the Kurchatov Institute participation. […]
Air vehicles of nameless origin, unknown intent, and seemingly odd capabilities are operating within America’s national airspace, flying over sensitive facilities, and interfering with commercial air traffic. All of this aerial weirdness involves Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena or UAP for short. Whatever they are, UAPs continue to be seen, reported, and even documented through various technologies. […]
Mars Guy checks in with Abe after 13 – plus years on Mars. “A year on Earth has passed since we last checked in on the century old Lincoln penny that’s part of a camera calibration target on the Curiosity rover,” explains Mars Guy. “It was notably clean at that time but Mars has since […]
Blue Origin successfully launched the 37th flight of the New Shepard program on December 20, 2025. The crew included: Michaela (Michi) Benthaus, Joey Hyde, Hans Koenigsmann, Neal Milch, Adonis Pouroulis, and Jason Stansell. This mission marked the first time a wheelchair user has flown above the Kármán Line, the internationally recognized boundary of […]
