December 8th, 2024
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For sure, it was a far-reaching recommendation. The planet Uranus and its moons should be NASA’s highest priority new Flagship mission for start-up in the decade 2023-2032. A Uranus Orbiter and Probe (UOP) would conduct a multiyear orbital tour to yield knowledge of ice giants in general, and the Uranian system in particular, […]
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That secretive U.S. Space Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-7), now some 345 days in orbit, is engaged in performing aerobrake maneuvers, a technique to alter its orbit around Earth and safely dispose of its attached service module. Lofted back in late December of 2023, the military spaceplane was placed in an orbit higher than […]
I was pleased to join my fellow space colleagues – Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik – December 6 th for an episode of their hit podcast to discuss the next NASA Administrator, delays in the Artemis rebooting of the Moon, as well the murky and mysterious nature of UFOs and UAPs, along with the consequences […]
Space travelers aboard China’s space station are soon to affix bricks made of Moon simulant to the outside of the station’s Wentian module. The experiment involves brick samples to test techniques for fabricating lunar housing at the Moon’s south pole region. According to the Xinhua news agency, future lunar domiciles make use of “mortise-and-tenon” fabrication, […]
NASA STATEMENT: “Through the Artemis campaign, NASA will land the next American astronauts and first international astronaut on the South Pole region of the Moon. On Thursday, NASA announced the latest updates to its lunar exploration plans. Experts discussed results of NASA’s investigation into its Orion spacecraft heat shield after it experienced an unexpected loss […]
Stand by for NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and space agency leadership today to offer a briefing about the Artemis “re-booting” of the Moon campaign. The NASA news conference is at 1 p.m. Eastern Time, Thursday, Dec. 5, from the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Sure to be highlighted and brought up by heavy-breathing reporters […]
The International Space Station is a problem child. The orbital outpost is plagued by cracks, coolant and air leaks, even a surprising smell that recently wafting into the station from a just-arrived Russian Progress cargo ship. Toss into the mix a number of high-speed, close encounters with space clutter from time to time that […]
China on Saturday scored a successful maiden launch of its Long March-12. Also, the booster lifted off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in the southern island province of Hainan. It marked the inaugural mission from the country’s first commercial launch facility. The Long March-12 departed the site’s No. 2 launch pad, hurling two […]
First the book…then the movie! Just coming off that post-Thanksgiving spin? Think about off-Earth alcohol consumption in space. Yes, even in space you can hear the sound of a swizzle stick! On October 11th, the Alcohol in Space movie had its premiere at the Explorers Club in New York City to a standing-room-only audience. Based […]
In his last public performance, Maestro Seiji Ozawa conducts Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, as broadcast directly to the International Space Station (ISS). Maestro Ozawa passed away Feb 6, 2024. In this emotional production, Ozawa conducts the Saito Kinen Orchestra which he co-founded in 1984 as an annual gathering of musicians from around the world. This performance […]
