(Image credit: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) By Mike Wall, Published by Space.com, 19 March 2024 The proposed rail system could help humanity set up shop on the moon. Railroads could open the moon to serious and sustained economic development, as they did in the American West in the late
By Ian Sample, Published by The Guardian, 8 December 2023 Peregrine first in series involving private spacecraft as conflict between scientific and commercial lunar interests looms To the casual observer, the preparations under way at Cape Canaveral in Florida point to nothing more than a routine launch of another spacecraft
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
Published by Defense One, 5 December 2023 Rather than simply send another lander, DARPA’s newest space program seeks to advance multiple technologies simultaneously. It’s one thing to get to the Moon and another to create a self-sustaining business there. Some 14 teams including SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman will
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,
NASA’s Psyche Mission: Journey to a Metal-Rich Asteroid By Nitish Verma, Published by MSN, 12 October 2023 Mark your calendars for October 12, 2023. On this day, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is set to launch its pioneering Psyche mission, the first-ever deep-space mission dedicated to exploring a
By Rick Tumlinson, Published by Space.com, 2 October 2023 The potential for conflict beyond Earth is coming. It's been reported that United States Space Force Commander Gen. Chance Saltzman surveyed the Force's members to develop a mission statement for America's newest military branch. Aside from the novelty of crowdsourcing soldiers
Artistic concept of asteroid 16 Psyche. Credit: Maxar/ASU/P.Rubin/NASA/JPL-Caltech. By Zeus Valtierra, Published by Meteored, 9 September 2023 Psyche was discovered by the Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis on March 17, 1852. He named the asteroid in honor of Psyche, the Greek goddess of the soul who was born mortal and
