July 22nd, 2025
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A Glenn Beck Podcast features a conversation with astronaut Jared Isaacman. When President Trump nominated him to be the new head of NASA, he ran into a firestorm of turbulence that he’s not used to navigating: D.C. politics. “Jared Isaacman may be the ultimate embodiment of the American dream, or he’s possibly the real-life version […]
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This Sunday marks 56 years since Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first walked across that “magnificent desolation” of Earth’s Moon. A just-released CBS News poll has found that most Americans favor America returning to moon, as well as head for the distant dunes of Mars. Moon to Mars “There is a lot […]
A Georgia Tech study warns that increasing lunar traffic could lead to costly collision avoidance maneuvers. What’s now needed is better coordination to manage growing risks in cislunar space. While collision probabilities in orbits around the Moon are very low compared to Earth orbit, spacecraft in lunar orbit will likely need to conduct multiple costly […]
The Aspen Institute hosted a July 16 panel of top-notch space security thinkers: Jane Harman, Chair, Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on U.S. Space Policy; Former Congresswoman; Chair, Commission on the National Defense Strategy; Aspen Institute Trustee Nina Armagno, Chair, Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on U.S. Space Policy; Former Lieutenant General, U.S. […]
The Tianzhou-9 cargo spacecraft that recently docked to China’s space station is helping shape the country’s human Moon landing effort. China employs a three-level positioning approach to rendezvous and dock with the space station. The BeiDou Navigation System first brings the spacecraft within 3 miles (five kilometers) of the space station. The two spacecraft then […]
A robotic system outfitted with mechanical tentacles has been tested onboard the International Space Station. Called REACCH, this system can carefully clutch and move objects in space, even objects not designed to be embraced. Kall Morris Inc (KMI), a space logistics company, is headquartered in Marquette, Michigan and has completed the first commercial demonstrations of […]
Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ gives US Space Force $1 billion for secretive X-37B space plane: Go to Space.com story at: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/trumps-one-big-beautiful-bill-gives-us-space-force-usd1-billion-for-secretive-x-37b-space-plane
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) of the Philippines have issued a “rocket Launch Advisory.” The NDRRMC cautions the public for the possible falling of debris from the People’s Republic of China’s Long March 7 rocket that is scheduled to be launched July 15-17. The Chinese rocket is topped by the uncrewed […]
Is the new interloper in our solar system — 3I/ATLAS — a comet or something else? That’s an intriguing question posed by Avi Loeb, head of the Galileo Project, a founding director of Harvard University’s Black Hole Initiative, and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Never […]
Mars Guy takes a look at recent coring operations by NASA’s Perseverance Rover busily working within Jezero Crater. The robot extracted a sample that was momentarily stuck in limbo. After some cajoling, the piece was freed from the teeth of the coring bit, only to arrive in another state of limbo. Also discussed is the […]
