Artist's rendition of a futuristic space navy. Credit: GoodFon / By Rick Tumlinson, Published by SpaceNews, 20 March 2024 At the ripe age of five, it is clear that the United States Space Force, while dominated by old thinking, still doesn’t know what it wants to be when it grows
(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
NASA is looking for people who want to train to become astronauts and take part in its next missions to the Moon. (Image: NASA) By Paige Cockburn for All in the Mind,Published by ABC News, 8 March 2024 Imagine never leaving your workplace for six months. Now imagine you're stuck
ABC‘s David Muir (2/22/24): “We have just learned now the landing was a success.” By Karl Grossman, Published by Fair, 7 March 2024 “In a historic lunar accomplishment, the first private spacecraft to land successfully on the Moon touched down on February 22,” the journal Nature (2/23/24) trumpeted the following day. That
Image: Youtube By Misty Severi, Published by The Washington Examiner, 5 March 2024 Russia and China are looking to put a nuclear power plant on the moon in the next decade, which they hope would one day lead to lunar settlements, according to Russia’s space agency Roscosmos. Yuri Borisov, the
By Peter Howson, Published by Jacobin, 23 February 2024 Texas start-up Intuitive Machines has achieved the first moon landing by a private firm. It’s dumping rich people’s detritus on the lunar surface — a grim sign of how the superrich plan to plant their flag beyond our own planet. Amid
An artist's concept of possible nuclear fission reactors on the Moon. Credit: NASA By Carolyn Collins Peterson, Published by Universe Today, 10 February 2024 What's the most important thing you need to live and work on the Moon? Power. For NASA's upcoming Artemis program, getting power to lunar bases is a
Artist's illustration of a power system on the moon. NASA plans a sustained presence on the moon and eventually Mars. Safe, efficient, reliable energy will be key to future robotic and human exploration. (Image credit: NASA) By Andrew Jones, Published by Space.com, 2 February 2024 The project aims to get
