June 18th, 2023
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I was pleased to take part in a Space.com podcast to take a lighthearted look at NASA’s recent report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP), co-hosted by Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik. Go to: This Week In Space podcast: Episode 66 —NASA’s UFO report explained with Leonard David at: https://www.space.com/this-week-in-space-podcast-twit
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Today marks 60 years since the first woman launched into space. On June 16, 1963, the 26-year-old Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova flew the single-seat Vostok-6 spacecraft, an event now 60 years ago. Some 20 years later, on June 18, 1983, American Sally Ride flew onboard a space shuttle on the STS-7 mission. Statista has […]
Lunar samples returned to Earth by China’s Chang’e-5 Moon mission have been transported to the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. Placed in an air-sealed container, the 1.5 grams of samples were given to France for scientific research during French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to China last April. Gift samples As reported by […]
NASA is partnering with seven U.S. companies, viewed as a step to bolster a U.S. commercial low Earth orbit economy. Through unfunded Space Act Agreements, the intent is for selected firms to leverage NASA expertise, but ultimately the space agency can be a customer for the capabilities honed by the selected firms. According to NASA, […]
China’s new space station crew has carried out radiation biology and space science research, making use of an airlock to extend an experiment into space outside the station’s Mengtian lab module. The Shenzhou-16 crew — Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao – prepared the experiment from within the Tiangong space station and then transferred […]
The time for a global solution to space traffic management is now! That’s the bottom line of a new RAND think tank research brief that warns if space leaders do not begin the work of establishing an international space traffic management organization (ISTMO) soon, “there is a significant chance that the world will lose key […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 3859 tasks. Reports Abigail Knight, a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis: “After several attempts to drive through difficult terrain, Curiosity successfully completed a drive of about 11 meters [36 feet] on Sol 3857!” Knight said that researchers have a straightforward plan […]
Now underway is a multi-nation, multi-billion dollar Mars Sample Return program, a project for the 2030’s to hurl to Earth a select smorgasbord of soil, rock and atmosphere from the Red Planet. NASA and the European Space Agency are working together on the Mars Sample Return (MSR) campaign. The plan is for those gathered and […]
China’s next robotic Moon landing probe, Chang’e-6, will carry payloads from the French and Europeans. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp revealed on Tuesday that two memorandums of understanding have been signed between the China National Space Administration (CNSA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French […]
If you have been abducted in space and time by the increasing government and public interest in Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) – rightly or wrongly now dubbed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP) – tighten your seat belts and secure those tray tables as they need to be in an upright and locked position during takeoff […]
