AvatarAndrew StroupSpace Exploration Trump signs executive order to support moon mining, tap asteroid resources space.com - Mike Wall The water ice and other lunar resources that will help the United States establish a long-term human presence on the moon are there for the taking, …
AvatarAndrew StroupSpace Next stop, Enceladus? Scientists make their case for a mission to Saturn's icy moon space.com - Meghan Bartels NASA is headed to Saturn's largest moon, Titan — but some scientists hope to convince the agency to send another mission to Titan's neighbor, …
AvatarAndrew StroupNASA Want to Leave This Planet? NASA Is Offering Some Seriously Cool Virtual Space Tours Right Now Travel + Leisure - Stacey LeascaNASA is ready to entertain and educate you all weekend long. The aerospace experts are pulling out all the stops to help everyone pass the time home socially distancing. That includes releasing some seriously
AvatarAndrew StroupSpace You can build your own Earth 2.0 with the awesome website 'Earth-like' space.com - Nola Taylor Redd You can now build your very own Earth 2.0! A new website allows users to create an Earth-like planet with a wide selection of options in an effort to …
AvatarAndrew StroupSpace Exploration NASA unveils plan for Artemis 'base camp' on the moon beyond 2024 space.com - Meghan Bartels NASA is forging ahead with its Artemis program to land humans on the moon by 2024, but the agency has also just offered its first plan for what a …
AvatarAndrew StroupTechnology NASA details how it plans to establish a sustained human presence on the Moon – TechCrunch TechCrunch - Darrell EtheringtonNASA’s Artemis program aims to bring humans back to the Moon, with the goal of staying there for good in the interest of pursuing additional science and exploration missions, including to Mars. But how
AvatarAndrew Stroup SpaceX Starship: new video shows spider-like legs that will land on Mars Inverse - Mike Brown David Bowie may have been surprisingly prescient with his album titles: a new video shared Wednesday shows the spider-like legs of the SpaceX …
AvatarAndrew StroupScience 12,000+ people applied to be a NASA astronaut for missions to our Moon and Mars slashgear.com - Chris Burns More than 12,000 individuals applied for the job of astronaut in NASA’s 2020 call for interest in the Artemis Generation. Those chosen for the …
AvatarAndrew StroupScience Move over, Mars: why we should look further afield for future human colonies sciencefocus.com - Christopher Wanjek Why should Mars get all the attention? There are so many more exciting places in our Solar System we could live. Everyone’s getting excited about …
AvatarAndrew StroupTechnology SpaceX’s Starship user guide details how it could replace the Space Shuttle and offer comfy passenger flights – TechCrunch TechCrunch - Darrell EtheringtonSpaceX has released a first version of its spacecraft user manual for Starship, the next-generation launch vehicle that it’s currently developing in Boca Chica, Texas. The manual isn’t quite as detailed
AvatarAndrew StroupSpace Exploration NASA picks SpaceX to fly cargo to moon-orbiting Gateway space station space.com - Mike Wall SpaceX cargo craft will soon reach much farther out into the final frontier, if all goes according to plan. The California-based company already flies …
AvatarAndrew StroupSpace This Epic Ion Engine Will Power NASA's Test Mission to Redirect an Asteroid ScienceAlert - EVAN GOUGH Despite humanity's current struggle against the novel coronavirus, and despite it taking up most of our attention, other threats still exist. The …
AvatarAndrew StroupExoplanets Introducing the Q-Drive: A concept that offers the possibility of interstellar flight centauri-dreams.org - Paul Gilster If Breakthrough Starshot is tackling the question of velocities at a substantial percentage of lightspeed, what do we do about the payload question? …
AvatarAndrew StroupSpace Exploration NASA Chooses SpaceX To Be Its Lunar Gateway Delivery Guy Popular Mechanics - By Jennifer LemanThe new Dragon XL will be able to move up to 5 metric tons to the lunar-orbiting space station. NASA has awarded the first contract for its Gateway space station to SpaceX. The company's new Dragon XL
AvatarAndrew StroupU.S. National Parks Need More Space At Home? Try These Astronomy Livestreams Forbes - Valerie StimacIt doesn’t matter your total square footage: any living space starts to feel small and cramped, after a few weeks of social distancing and spending a lot of time at home. Whether you’re enjoying the solitude,
AvatarAndrew StroupScience Infinite Visions Were Hiding in the First Black Hole Image’s Rings The New York Times - Dennis OverbyeA year ago a team of radio astronomers startled the world with the first photograph of a black hole, lurking like the eye of Sauron in the heart of a distant galaxy. Now it appears there was more hiding
AvatarAndrew StroupSpace This Engine Could One Day Save Us From Planetary Disaster Popular Mechanics - By Jennifer LemanDidymos, a 2,650-foot-wide asteroid, has an atypical cosmic companion— a 535 foot-wide satellite named Didymoon (10). These new two celestial bodies are not making a dangerous rendezvous with Earth, but
AvatarAndrew StroupScience Octonary stars and 'Broken Pieces': Can the eight-star system from Star Trek: Picard actually exist? SYFY WIRE - Phil Plait When we look out into the the final frontier, we suffer from an illusion imposed by distance: The stars look like single dots, points of light …
AvatarAndrew StroupUniverse We might be living in a gigantic, intergalactic bubble space.com - Rafi Letzter That's the conclusion of a new paper published in the journal Physics Letters B, due for print publication April 10. The paper is an attempt to …
AvatarAndrew StroupScience The U.S. Space Force has now actually gone to space [Updated] Ars Technica - Eric Berger So far, Covid-19 has yet to substantially slow activity at the military's spaceports. 4:30pm ET Update: After an issue with ground support equipment, …
AvatarAndrew Stroup Sarah Parcak: ‘Imagine being able to zoom in from space to see a pottery shard!’ The Guardian - Zoë CorbynI had zoomed in to get the outlines of mud bricks and when I zoomed out, boom! There was this huge map of the whole city American space archaeologist Sarah Parcak uses satellites orbiting high above the
AvatarAndrew Stroup NASA Artemis timeline: Launch dates, mission goals, for America's Moon-bound flyer Inverse - Passant Rabie It has been 50 years since humanity left space-boot prints on the Moon, but in a few short years, astronauts will once again walk the lunar …
AvatarAndrew Stroup Chinese Billionaire Starts Satellite Venture to Rival Musk’s SpaceX Bloomberg Sign up for Next China, a weekly email on where the nation stands now and where it's going next. The Chinese owner of Volvo Cars announced it will …
AvatarAndrew StroupWelcome to MarsHumanity has daydreamed of missions to Mars since the 1960s. And in 2020, four separate space agencies are planning groundbreaking missions to Mars. So what does it all mean? How will we get there? What happens when humans land on the surface? How will we survive and how do we transform the red planet into a place worth living on? There's never been a more exciting time to explore the red planet. Welcome to Mars.
AvatarAndrew StroupScience Firefly outlines plans to expand beyond small-satellite launch Ars Technica - Eric Berger NASA's Artemis plan to return humans to the surface of the Moon has gotten the lion's share of public attention over the last year, but the space …
AvatarAndrew StroupMars Rover Here's How NASA Captured the Highest-Resolution Image of Mars' Surface Ever thrillist.com - Dustin Nelson It was earlier in March that NASA unveiled the highest resolution photo of Mars' surface ever created. It's the kind of picture that can create the …
AvatarAndrew StroupSpace Lose Yourself in This Absolutely Gobsmacking Image of Valles Marineris on Mars ScienceAlert - MATT WILLIAMS The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) delivers once again! Using its advanced imaging instrument, the High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) …
AvatarAndrew StroupFalcon 9 Welders wanted: SpaceX is hiring to ramp up production of stainless steel Starship space.com - Mike Wall The coronavirus pandemic isn't shrinking every part of the job market. For example, SpaceX is looking to hire lots of folks to help ramp up production …
AvatarAndrew StroupSpace Did Mercury once have the ingredients for life? space.com - Chelsea Gohd It's possible that Mercury once held the ingredients for life. In 1974, NASA's Mariner 10 probe flew by Mercury and observed a cracked, cratered …
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