by Kelli Ballard | Dec 14, 2023 | Articles, Opinion, Privacy & Tech
Space mining is the new international space race, and according to witnesses testifying before the House Committee on Natural Resources on Dec. 12, the United States is way behind. So far behind, in fact, that it is being called a national security threat. Why Space...
by Dave Patterson | Aug 21, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, International, Opinion
What was reported as a race with India to achieve a soft landing on the moon at the southern pole ended for Russia as its Luna-25 moon lander crashed on the lunar surface. The launch of the powerful Soyus-2.1b Fregat rocket carrying the Luna-25 lifted off from the...
by Dave Patterson | Aug 10, 2023 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
With last year’s successful US Artemis 1 mission to the moon and back, and with India’s successful launch of its lunar lander Chandrayaan-3 on July 14, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin apparently is feeling left out. So, Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, announced...
by Dave Patterson | Dec 12, 2022 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
Look, up in the sky, traveling at Mach 32 through the atmosphere; it’s Artemis 1 back from its trip around the moon. On Sunday at 12:40 p.m. Eastern Time, Artemis 1’s Orion space capsule gently splashed down off the west coast of Baja, California, after a...
by Dave Patterson | Nov 17, 2022 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
After weeks of anticipation and two scrubbed launches, NASA’s new Artemis 1 Space Launch System (SLS) rose into the air from the Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39B at 1:47 a.m. EST on November 16. Those early risers who witnessed the first in the series of Artemis...