By Chris Morris, Published by Yahoo News, 5 January, 2024 Elon Musk might have his eyes on Mars, but as he focuses on the Red Planet, two private aerospace companies are planning to return the U.S. to the moon for the first time since 1972. Pittsburgh’s Astrobotic Technology will send
By Brett Tingley, Publihed by Space.com, 4 January 2024 With these new opportunities and new ways of doing business, we recognize that some non-NASA commercial payloads can be a cause for concern to some communities.' On Jan. 8, a ULA rocket will send Astrobiotic's Peregrine lander toward the moon. If it lands
By Jeff Spry, Published by Space.com, 4 January 2024 "The act of depositing human remains and other materials, which could be perceived as discards in any other location, on the moon is tantamount to desecration of this sacred space." For better or worse, the moon is officially open for business.
By Reuters, Published by The Guardian, 3 January 2024 US labor agency says eight employees were let go for circulating a letter calling the founder a ‘distraction and embarrassment’ The rocket and satellite maker SpaceX was accused by a US labor agency of unlawfully firing eight employees for circulating a
By Tim Newcomb, Published by Popular Mechanics, 28 December 2023 Welcome to a new moon epoch, y'all. Researchers believe that a new epoch may have begun on the Moon back in 1959, when humans first affected the surface. Dubbed the “Lunar Anthropocene,” the epoch has now seen over 100 spacecraft
By Tamara Lorincz, 12 December 2023 Handout_Cancel-F-35-Fighter-Jets-Keep-Space-for-PeaceDownload It has been extremely busy at the climate summit in Dubai. I have worked really hard every day to promote the messages of peace for climate justice, cut military spending for climate finance, demilitarize to decarbonize, NATO is a threat to people &
By Matthew Sparkes, Published by the New Scientist, 8 December 2023 Humans have been altering the lunar surface since the first Soviet probe in 1959. With moon missions set to ramp up, researchers say humanity is now the dominant geological force and the moon is entering its equivalent of the
By Alice Gorman, Published by The Conversation, 4 December 2023 In 1963, six years after the first satellite was launched, editors from the Encyclopaedia Britannica posed a question to five eminent thinkers of the day: “Has man’s conquest of space increased or diminished his stature?” The respondents were philosopher Hannah Arendt,
