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...
by Dave Patterson | Sep 7, 2022 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
Beijing and Moscow have let the world know they are prepared to make space a new battleground. The US Department of Defense is taking the threats above the earth’s atmosphere seriously. On Sept. 6-7, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks and Under Secretary...
by Dave Patterson | Aug 29, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
The expectation of billowing rocket motor exhaust and an ear-splitting roar from NASA’s Artemis 1 Space Launch System (SLS) that would have heralded the return of America’s era of moon missions instead ended in disappointment. Kennedy Space Center was alive with...