By Frank Landymore, Published by The Byte, 23 August 2023 Nothing to sneeze at! Gassed Up Things are getting kind of gassy at Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' space tourism firm. Case in point, Bloomberg reports that a Blue Origin facility in West Texas is regularly emitting so much methane during
By Elizabeth Howell, Published by Space.com, 16 August 2023 NASA astronaut Drew Feustel just joined to map its strategy. Our small steps back to the moon today could build a rich new industry. There's lots of buzz about mining the moon. Satellites have spotted water at the lunar south pole.
By Rachel Schike, Published by Washington Examiner, 16 June 2023 The United States and China, two of the world's largest superpowers, are locked in a battle to achieve supremacy in the final frontier — space. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, China has stepped forward to challenge the U.S.
By Mark R. Whittington, Published by The Hill, 26 March 2023 The political question of whether the International Space Station (ISS) was worth the money was answered when an amendment to kill the orbiting space lab failed by one vote in the House of Representatives in 1993. Ironically, the late
By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 13 March 2023 WASHINGTON — NASA is projecting spending nearly $1 billion on a tug to deorbit the International Space Station at the end of the decade to provide redundancy for safely disposing of the station. NASA released additional details March 13 about its
By Katyanna Quach, Published by The Register, 23 April 2022 The US Space Force has created a unit, the 19th Space Defense Squadron, to monitor activity in the region beyond Earth's geosynchronous orbit, all the way out to the Moon and yonder. Commander of the 18th SDS, Lt. Col. Matt
By Julia Musto, Published by Fox Business, 9 April 2022 The historic Axiom 1 mission crew docked to the International Space Station's (ISS) Harmony module space-facing port on Saturday morning following delays. Soft capture was confirmed at 8:29 a.m. ET and docking was reported as "complete" at 8:41 a.m. ET.
By Eric Ralph, Published by teslarati, 16 March 2022 The US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has confirmed that its next spy satellite is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the same day the company is planning to launch four NASA and ESA astronauts. Following SpaceX’s flawless
