February 16th, 2020
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Drilling on Mars! It’s so super cool SAM bakes up our sample Using many a joule NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2677 tasks. The Curiosity science team is currently analyzing our most recent drill powder from “Hutton,” reports Dawn Sumner, Planetary Geologist at University of California Davis. The first analysis of its […]
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An expert on international relations has taken on the taboo in modern society of taking UFOs seriously and calls for systematic science to try to determine what they are. Alexander Wendt is the Ralph D. Mershon Professor of International Security and professor of political science at The Ohio State University. Before coming to […]
Since China’s newly-developed Long March-5B arrived at its launch site on February 5, preparations are in full swing for its inaugural April liftoff. The booster will be topped by the prototype of China’s new manned spaceship. It will be unpiloted. The Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China is the busy site for tests and […]
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis is moving forward on a project to measure the economic contributions of both commercial and government ventures in space. This new BEA appraisal involves a new set of statistics that will measure the contributions of space-related industries (and possibly activities) to the overall U.S. economy. Commercial space segment BEA […]
Last October, that hush-hush U.S. Air Force X-37B robotic space plane program chalked up a long duration milestone. During the Orbital Test Vehicle-5 (OTV-5) space trek, the winged mini-shuttle may have released a trio of satellites. That’s the word from Bob Christy, founder and editor of the informative website, Zarya.info. There are no details available […]
Piplsay, a global platform for getting people’s opinions at scale, has taken a look at public views regarding UFOs. According to the group, aliens have long been a fixture in American pop culture, which is why the United Kingdom’s government’s decision to declassify its UFO files is likely to create a lot of buzz in […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2672 tasks. The rover has made a successful drilling at target Hutton reports Rachel Kronyak, a planetary geologist at the University of Tennessee, “our newest (and 24th!) drill hole on the surface of Mars!” “As a fitting celebration, a box of donut holes was passed around […]
Between 1969 and the end of 1972, twelve U.S. astronauts kicked up the powdery regolith, the topside dirt of the Moon. They were later dubbed the “dusty dozen.” Along with invaluable lunar samples, Apollo moonwalkers brought back a significant message to Earth: The Moon is a Disneyland of dust. Those 20th century human outings confronted […]
The Trump administration established the Space Force as a separate military branch in December 2019. U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper noted last month, nations have been in space for many, many years. “It’s just been recently that both China and Russia pushed us to the point where it now became a warfighting domain,” he […]
It is GO for drilling at Hutton reports Catherine O’Connell, a planetary geologist at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Curiosity is parked at the “Hutton” drill site, the rover’s new drill site on Mars. Over the past couple of sols, Mars scientists have focused on assessing the suitability of the bedrock […]
