April 10th, 2018
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A letter signed by 72 leading lunar researchers from academia and the private sector has been sent to key congressional lawmakers in support of President Trump’s Space Policy Directive 1. That policy document refocuses NASA to rekindle human Moon exploration to enable eventual footprints on Mars. “The U.S. lunar community is excited not only about […]
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As China’s space station era draws closer, the country’s astronauts are receiving comprehensive training to assure longer stints in space, as well as carry out space walking tasks for in-orbit assembly and repair of the station. An April 8 China Central Television (CCTV) interview with Chen Dong – who flew on the Shenzhou 11 […]
New Curiosity traverse map through Sol 2017: This map shows the route driven by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity through the 2017 Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission on the Red Planet (April 09, 2018). Numbering of the dots along the line indicate the sol number of each drive. North is up. The scale […]
Take a virtual tour of the Moon in all-new 4K resolution, thanks to data provided by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft. This visualization moves around the near side, far side, north and south poles, highlighting interesting features, sites, and information gathered on the lunar terrain. Music Provided By Killer Tracks: “Never Looking Back” […]
Hey all you space whistleblowers out there – suck in the new United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) report: NASA Contractor Whistleblowers – Steps Taken to Implement Program but Improvements to Timeliness and Guidance Needed. Fulfilling its duty The GAO notes that NASA relies on contractor employees to fulfill its mission—and these employees […]
A discussion with Christian Davenport, author of The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos. This event was held on Wednesday, April 4, 2018, staged by The Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. Billionaire entrepreneurs The Space Barons is […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2015 duties. The rover has wheeled into a candy store of sorts, reports Michelle Minitti, a planetary geologist at Framework in Silver Spring, Maryland. “Like Harry Potter in Honeydukes or Charlie in the Chocolate Factory, Curiosity rolled up to the proverbial candy store today,” Minitti adds, […]
The U.S. Air Force X-37B mini-space plane has winged past 200 days of flight performing secretive duties during the program’s fifth flight. Labeled the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-5), the robotic spacecraft was hurled into Earth orbit on September 7 of last year atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy […]
Now in Sol 2014, NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover recently completed a drive of 125 feet (38 meters) reaching a location that researchers call Region 13 of Vera Rubin Ridge. Reports Roger Wiens, a geochemist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico: That spot has been subdivided into separate nearby sites, with the current […]
Virgin Galactic has released a video showcasing yesterday’s SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity completing its first supersonic, rocket-powered flight. Once released from the carrier aircraft, Unity’s rocket motor was brought to life and the pilots aimed the spaceship upwards into an 80 degree climb, accelerating to Mach 1.87 during the 30 seconds of rocket burn. In VSS […]
