By Abbey A. Donaldson, Released by NASA, 26 June 2024 NASA is fostering continued scientific, educational, and technological developments in low Earth orbit to benefit humanity, while also supporting deep space exploration at the Moon and Mars. As the agency transitions to commercially owned space destinations closer to home, it
(Image: NASA/Neil A. Armstrong) By Becky Ferreira, Published by Wired, 26 June 2024 If humans are to return to the moon, space agencies and governments need to figure out the legal, ethical, and practical dimensions of extraterrestrial waste management. Everybody poops, including astronauts. In fact, the first picture Neil Armstrong
The International Space Station jettisons a 2.9-ton pallet carrying used batteries on March 11, 2021. This photo was posted on Twitter by NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins. (Image credit: NASA/Mike Hopkins via Twitter) By Josh Dinner, Published by Space.com, 24 June 2024 The falling space junk crashed through two floors of their
Commander of Space Operations Command Lt. Gen. Stephen N. Whiting. Staff photo by Mike Tsukamoto. By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 24 June 2024 Gen. Stephen Whiting: The location of a recently launched Russian satellite in low Earth orbit “doesn’t seem to be accidental” WASHINGTON — U.S. Space Command
L3Harris' tracking layer satellite, which will be part of a solution designed by the Space Development Agency and the Missile Defense Agency to track and target hypersonic weapons from space. (L3Harris) By Greg Hadley, Published by Air & Space Forces Magazine, 20 June 2024 The Space Force is working on
By Josh Taylor, Published by The Guardian, 19 June 2024 A ‘legitimate grievance’ with big tech firms is being used by police as a pretext to undermine privacy, Meredith Whittaker says Police have used the “very legitimate grievance” the public has with large tech companies like Meta about data collection
By Anthony Cuthbertson, Published by The Independent, 18 June 2024 Human missions to Mars could be at risk after new research revealed that long-duration space travel can impact the structure of astronauts’ kidneys. Samples from more than 40 space missions involving humans and mice revealed that kidneys are remodelled by the conditions
