March 2nd, 2025
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“There is a Pyramid on the Moon – We’ve Landed.” That’s the word from Ben Haldeman, founder of LifeShip, based in Carlsbad, California. Now planted on the Moon within Mare Crisium, courtesy of the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lunar lander, the Pyramid carries the complete genetic code for a human, etched into Cerabyte ceramic […]
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Engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley report progress in installing a heat shield on the first private spacecraft targeted for Venus. Rocket Lab of Long Beach, California is leading the effort, along with their partners at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Woven heat shield NASA’s Heatshield for […]
The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lunar lander is slated to touch down in Mare Crisium on the Moon’s near side no earlier than 2:45 a.m. Central Standard “Texas” Time (0845 UTC) on Sunday, March 2. Blue Ghost’s final autonomous descent will take roughly an hour, kick-started by the craft’s 19-second burn that will place Blue […]
A spacecraft to help sort out the availability and nature of water ice on the Moon is on the fritz. The NASA/Caltech Lunar Trailblazer was successfully deployed on February 26 as a ride share payload from a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster. It is designed to circuit the Moon in patrol mode to detect signatures of […]
After liftoff on February 26, the Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander established a stable attitude, solar charging, and radio communications contact with our mission operations center in Houston. According to Intuitive Machines, the lander is in excellent health, sending selfies and preparing for a series of main engine firings to refine the probe’s trajectory ahead […]
Step by Step: The Artemis Program and NASA’s Path to Human Exploration of the Moon, Mars, and Beyond – A hearing by Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee held on February 26, 2025. The purpose of this hearing is to review outside perspectives of NASA progress on the Artemis program, about the importance of maintaining the continuity […]
The eighth flight test of the SpaceX Starship is preparing to launch no earlier than March 3. The launch window will open at 5:30 p.m. Central (Texas) Time. Due to the loss of Starship on flight test seven, several hardware and operational changes have been made to increase reliability of the upper stage. “The upcoming […]
Firefly Aerospace has completed a third and final lunar orbit maneuver of its Blue Ghost Moon lander. Taking place early Monday morning, the Moon-circling lander carried out a 16-second burn of reaction control system thrusters, thereby inserting itself into a near-circular low orbit. Up next…going down This critical February 24 maneuver sets up the spacecraft […]
Enter the “wait-a-minute” world of space stations. Early this morning I saw the International Space Station slip across my Colorado mountain skyline. I waved, but I don’t think they saw me. But I did ponder the early demise of this huge human outpost in Earth orbit. Incremental utility? “It is time to begin preparations for […]
Back in 1976, the dual NASA Viking landers came to full stop on the Red Planet. Their life detection experimental findings still reverberate within the scientific community – fueling the on-going discussion on a key question: Is there life on Mars? Fast forward to today, a new paper tackles and reconsiders the results of the […]
