May 17th, 2019
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NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has used its high-powered LROC system to image Israel’s SpaceIL Beresheet crash site. The imagery was taken eleven days after the attempted landing on April 11th. Think gouge…rather than crater At the scale of the narrow angle camera image, photo specialists cannot […]
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2409 duties. Now that the robot is back on the road following a drill campaign at Kilmarie, a quick “touch-and-go” activity was planned to characterize the local bedrock, explains Mark Salvatore, a planetary geologist at the University of Michigan in Dearborn. Ripple field Curiosity recently drove a […]
Explore Mars, Inc. has released The Humans to Mars Report 2019, issued at the group’s summit meeting being held May 14-16 at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington D.C. The report notes that the past year has been a particularly active year with regard to space policy. The National Space Council announced that […]
Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 spacesuit will go on display July 16, the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11. “This is a big moment for us,” explains a Smithsonian Air and Space Museum statement, “because it will be the first time the suit is displayed in 13 years, and the suit just completed a […]
Apollo Leadership Lessons: Powerful Business Insights for Executives by Dick Richardson; Authority Publishing 2019; paperback: 232 pages, $24.99. As we close in on the July salute of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, you’ll find this book an inspiring read – one that captures hope and disappointment, villains and heroes, greed and sacrifice. […]
One small, high-flying step toward interstellar travel! Last month, UC Santa Barbara students sent up, via balloon, a prototype miniature spacecraft designed to further interplanetary and eventually interstellar flight. “It’s part of a process of building for the future, and along the way you test each part of the system to refine it,” said […]
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced today that the space company plans to relocate more than 100 employees to New Mexico’s Spaceport America as it begins to ramp up operations for commercial flights. Virgin Founder Sir Richard Branson announced that Virgin Galactic’s development and testing program had advanced sufficiently to move […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has just started to perform Sol 2403 duties. Reports Lucy Thompson, a planetary geologist at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada: The go ahead has been given to start planning to proceed with dumping the Kilmarie drill fines from the robot’s drill bit assembly. Pulverized sample Both the […]
Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com fame and fortune detailed his company’s Blue Moon plans for flying cargo and crew to the Moon. The lunar strategy of the Bezos-backed Blue Origin group was revealed May 9 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Blue Moon is a flexible lander that can deliver a […]
NASA has awarded multi-planetary architectural and technology design agency, AI SpaceFactory, $500,000 for the successful construction of its Mars habitat (MARSHA). The habitat was 3D printed during the final phase of NASA’s Centennial Challenge. Innovative composite AI SpaceFactory, headquartered in New York, was announced the 1st place winner out of over 60 challengers for […]
