The future of Moon exploration for lunar science and long-term development is advancing private plans for communicating from and navigating across the crater-pocked lunar terrain.         A newly formed deep space infrastructure company is putting in place a common infrastructure around the Moon, offering it as an inventive commercial […]

  NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 3810 duties. “We have cleared the canyon,” reports Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, a planetary geologist at the University of New Brunswick; Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. There were a lot of tricky rocks the robot had to climb over. Free-wheeling territory “We don’t exactly have free-wheeling […]

  Europe is establishing an ambitious space agenda, one designed to accelerate a broad portfolio of objectives while catching up in launchers, as well as robotic and human exploration beyond Earth orbit. The European Space Agency (ESA) is outward looking, across a number of space fronts, some of them evolutionary…some revolutionary. Go to my exclusive […]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will oversee a “mishap investigation” of last week’s Starship/Super Heavy test mission. According to an FAA statement provided to Inside Outer Space, “an anomaly occurred during the ascent and prior to stage separation resulting in a loss of the vehicle.  No injuries or public property damage have been reported.” A […]

  NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 3807 duties. The robot’s recent drive has been spotlighted by Lucy Thompson, a planetary geologist at the University of New Brunswick; Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. “It has been tricky for our intrepid Mars explorer as we have tried to pick our way through […]

  Meet a space veteran of the first-things-first department of analog missions. Analog trial-runs here on Earth can help train individuals primed and pumped for travel to the nearby Moon and distant Mars – with a majority of those taking part having hopes for later achieving the genuine thing. Mission experiences Anastasia Stepanova is a […]

The cacophony of captions rippling through the various feeding troughs of news regarding the SpaceX Starship’s test launch has been a tad deafening. While not nearly as loud as the mammoth rocket’s departure, they were as circuitous and apocalyptic as the vehicle’s flight path, such as: “Elon Musk’s prized Starship mega-rocket exploded into a fireball” […]

UFO/UAP Congressional Hearing: TESTIMONY ON THE MISSION, ACTIVITIES, OVERSIGHT, AND BUDGET OF THE ALL-DOMAIN ANOMALY RESOLUTION OFFICE Date: Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 Testimony by: Dr. Sean M. Kirkpatrick, Director, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office Hearing replay, go to: https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/to-receive-testimony-on-the-mission-activities-oversight-and-budget-of-the-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office