While Apollo placed the first steps on the Moon, Artemis opens the door for humanity to sustainably work and live on another world for the first time. Using the lunar surface as a proving ground for living on Mars, this next chapter in exploration will forever establish our presence in the stars. We are returning […]
Join the Mars Institute, NASA and Google Street View on an expedition to Devon Island — the most Mars-like place on Earth — to discover how research conducted here will help prepare us for future explorations of Mars. Devon Island in the Arctic is the largest uninhabited island on Earth, and for good reason. With […]
“What’s a spacewalk like? What do you feel?” As NASA prepares to send the first woman and next man to the Moon by 2024 under the #Artemis program, Brad Pitt is playing an astronaut in his latest film, Ad Astra. On Sept. 16 from NASA Headquarters in Washington, the actor spoke to astronaut Nick Hague […]
DILLON THOMPSON, IN THE KNOW Aug 26th 2019 1:00PM A NASA astronaut is being accused of multiple crimes committed aboard the International Space Station (ISS), according to The New York Times. Anne McClain, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, is facing allegations that she accessed her estranged wife’s bank account during her 203-day mission aboard the ISS earlier this […]
(Breitbart) Friday’s crash of the Virgin Galactic space-plane in California was, of course, a tragedy. One test-pilot was killed and another seriously injured. But there is, at least, a silver lining: There’s no need to worry about another possible issue concerning Richard Branson’s spaceflight venture—namely, that all those internal-combustion-powered flights would contribute to the dread […]
A unmanned rocket carrying 5,000 pounds of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station exploded shortly after blastoff on Tuesday at NASA’s facility on Wallops Island, Va. The rocket was made by Orbital Sciences, which was contracted by NASA to ship supplies up to the International Space Station. On Twitter, Orbital said there had […]
Muslim clerics have issued a religious ruling (“fatwa”) forbidding any Muslim from traveling to Mars. The ruling, published in the UAE’s Khaleej Times, says that space travel in general, and to Mars specifically, is too dangerous. “Such a one-way journey poses a real risk to life, and that can never be justified in Islam,” the […]
Although treaties forbid ownership, the powerful nation would have little resistance when laying claim to lunar resources. Within about 15 years, China could have a permanent presence on the moon, and be laying claim to its resources. There may not be anything the United States, hobbled by debt and politically polarized, can do to stop […]
Newt Gingrich took the opportunity of being on Florida’s space coast to revisit one of his favorite topics: space exploration. “By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American,” Gingrich said to applause. He said the development would include commercial and private […]
Tuesday’s solar flare went unnoticed by most of Earth’s inhabitants, but NASA says that might not be the case in 2013 when a peak in solar activity could cause trillions of dollars in damage to high-tech infrastructures. Earlier this week the Sun had a massive solar flare shooting a bunch of radiation in our planet’s […]
