Happy New Year to one and all. May 2021 be much better than 2020.

WHITE HOUSE RELEASES IMPLEMENTING STRATEGY FOR PLANETARY PROTECTION

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The Air Force Is Building a Spacecraft That Will Beam Solar Power to Earth

Put Down That Popcorn and Back Away from the Theatre: ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Contains ‘Islamophobia’

NASA-Canadian agreement demonstrates how Artemis is an international moonshot

Elon Musk reveals catch and quick release plans for Super Heavy booster

Is SpaceX versus China the only space race that matters?

Retrofuturistic NASA Space Art

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories

With the right catalyst, we might make jet fuel from CO₂

Current spacesuits won’t cut it on the moon. So NASA made new ones.

The surface of the moon is a galactic time capsule

Ahoy, Jacklyn! Jeff Bezos names Blue Origin’s rocket recovery ship after his mom

Starship SN9’s time to shine – test series targets a New Year’s resolution

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age

Biden will inherit a mess at NASA

2021 could be a huge year for space. Here’s what’s to come from NASA, Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos.

The coolest ancient weapons discovered in 2020

NASA’s Insurance Policy Against Biden

Starship SN9’s time to shine – test series targets a New Year’s resolution

Viasat asks FCC to perform environmental review of Starlink

NASA-Canadian agreement demonstrates how Artemis is an international moonshot

ELON MUSK SAYS MARS ECONOMY WILL RUN ON CRYPTOCURRENCY

Lessons Learned in 2020 from NASA, International Space Station Science Experiments and Research

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon?

What would Earth look like to alien astronomers?

The Space News We’ll Be Watching in 2021

Why Roman concrete is stronger than it ever was, while modern concrete decays

Why Joe Biden would have made a better villain for Wonder Woman 1984

Wonder Woman 1984 has proven off-putting to a lot of people for many reasons, not the least of which has been the unfair treatment the movie delivers to Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan. However, the movie would have made a lot more sense if the villain had been based on Joe Biden, the president-elect of the United States. Indeed, some might even think that Biden’s election as president of the United States could be the result of a wish-granting idol. It certainly wasn’t the result of any merit or effort on the candidate’s part.

China’s Chang’e-5 mission: flagging the moon for conflict?

Welcome to Texas, Elon Musk

When he lost a race for the United States Congress in Tennessee, Davy Crockett famously declared, “You all can go the hell; I’m going to Texas.” The rest, as they say, is history.

Almost 190 years since Crockett won deathless glory at the Alamo, a lot of people and companies seem to be sharing his sentiment, especially those residing in California. Hewitt Packard and Oracle are scheduled to move their headquarters from high tax, high regulation California to business-friendly Texas. Now Elon Musk, of Tesla and SpaceX fame, seems to be the latest to shake his fist, metaphorically speaking, at California and move to Texas.

Here's How the Ashes of Star Trek's Original Scotty Got Smuggled Aboard the International Space Station

The 10 biggest spaceflight stories of 2020

Dealing with dust: A back-to-the-moon dilemma

The Coming Global Backlash against China

Preparing for “Earth to Earth” space travel and a competition with supersonic airliners

Arachnauts: NASA Sends Spiders to Space for Experimentation – Here’s What They Found

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age

Floating 'mini-nukes' could power countries by 2025, says startup

Biden Defense Team Inherits Navy Robotic Warship Research Aimed At Deterring And Defeating China

Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii

NASA-Canadian agreement demonstrates how Artemis is an international moonshot

Space Policy Online reports that NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have concluded an agreement that, among other things, would include a Canadian astronaut on the Artemis II mission, envisioned to take four astronauts around the moon in 2023. The Artemis II would precede the Artemis III mission to land on the moon the following year, even though most believe that date to be unrealistic.

Why I'm flying to space to do research aboard Virgin Galactic

China’s virus deceptions have been even worse than we thought

China develops a rocket with a reusable first stage, the trend of reusable rockets goes global

The Extraordinary Robotic Sample-Gathering System of NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins harvests radishes grown in space

Children of Apollo

An Essential Man

ARE DEMOCRATS IN TROUBLE IN 2022?

Poland Just Stopped Big Tech Censorship in Its Tracks With Single Shot: We Can Do the Same

What Wonder Woman 1984 doesn’t get about Trump and Reagan

When Patty Jenkins, the director of both 2017’s Wonder Woman and the newly released Wonder Woman 1984 announced that the film’s big baddy, Maxwell Lord, was based on Donald Trump, one could hear the groans coming from sea to shining sea. Why would Ms. Jenkins insult half of her audience by doing a thing like that?

Replace the Arecibo radio telescope with one on the moon's far side

NASA’S JET PROPULSION LABORATORY ACHIEVES FIRST LONG-DISTANCE QUANTUMTELEPORTATION

NASA's SLS megarocket 'hot fire' test delayed after early shutdown in fueling trial

A Brother on the Moon

Japan going ahead with ‘Godzilla’ fighter jet

How future spacecraft might handle tricky landings on Venus or Europa

NASA’s Artemis Accords Boost Commercial Space Activity

For all those who celebrate, Merry Christmas.

Starship | SN8 | High-Altitude Flight Recap

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SpaceX, Blue Origin, Dynetics await NASA lunar lander decision

Starship SN9 rolled to launch site – Super Heavy construction ramps up

Children of Apollo

THE BATTLE FOR MARS: HOW ELON MUSK, BLUE ORIGIN, AND THE US COULD SET UP THE FIRST EXTRATERRESTRIAL GOVERNMENT

We Need to Change How We Search for Alien Life

Nuclear-Powered Rockets Get a Second Look for Travel to Mars


The International Space Station can’t stay up there forever. Will privately run, commercial replacements be ready in time?

‘Wonder Woman 1984’ – Woke, Wobbly and the Year’s Most Shocking Dud

Here is the money quote

"Yet when Maxwell grants the Reagan stand-in his own wish, he asks for MORE nuclear weapons to outgun “Russia” (didn’t we call it the Soviet Union at the time?)"

"Three-plus decades later, Hollywood is still slamming Reagan as a war monger."

Really? REALLY? Patty Jenkins is not the first Hollywood lib to not get Reagan. If anything, the Gipper would have asked for a working SDI system. Indeed, one would imagine that he did get his wish: the fall of the Soviet Union.

NASA's aim shouldn't be altered every time we get a new president

Egypt has joined the Moon Village Association

NASA honing plans for its Mars Ice Mapper mission

2020 is when private spaceflight just got started. In 2021 it will shoot for the stars

Gabriella's Holy War

A Martian Roundtrip: NASA's Perseverance Rover Sample Tubes

An updated way to calculate the likelihood of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations

Russia’s space chief is hopping mad over most recent US restrictions

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NASA receives $23.271 billion in fiscal year 2021 omnibus spending bill

Made In Space makes ceramic turbine part in orbit in another 3D printing milestone

Replace the Arecibo radio telescope with one on the moon's far side

NASA Completes Design Review of the SLS Exploration Upper Stage

The Year in Space Travel

Gabriella's War (The Vampire Gabriella Book 4)

SLS: Crucial test for Nasa's 'mega-rocket'

A Transient at Proxima Centauri?

Joe Biden’s climate agenda is all about creating a crisis — not actually fixing one

Russia’s space chief cannot seem to get “gentle” SpaceX out of his mind

SpaceX and its kick-ass, phenomenal, totally awesome 2020

Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” XIV: What is the Aurora Hypothesis?

A Brother on the Moon

A side-by-side comparison of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines

The lightning-fast quest for COVID vaccines — and what it means for other diseases

Radio Signal Detected From Proxima Centauri a Serious Candidate for Alien Communication

Replace the Arecibo radio telescope with one on the moon's far side

The iconic Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, which has been making scientific discoveries for 57 years, not to mention serving as the backdrop of such films as Contact and Goldeneye, has collapsed. The radio observatory had already been slated for decommissioning when two cables snapped and it was judged too dangerous to repair. Now the Arecibo is little but rubble.

NASA SLS megarocket for the moon resumes testing after equipment hiccup

NASA moves Mars Sample Return program into next phase of development

The Flight of the Grey Falcon

SpaceX Starship chasers converge in South Texas

SpaceX closes out record-setting year of launches from Florida’s Space Coast

President-Elect Biden Introduces Climate Team, EPA Nominee Promises To Combat ‘Environmental Justice’

Biden’s China space dilemma

NASA’s Webb Sunshield Successfully Unfolds and Tensions in Final Tests

Orion Simulator for Training Arrives at Johnson

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond

Top Technical Advances of 2020

QUANTUM TELEPORTATION ACHIEVED, SAY TEAM OF LEADING SCIENTISTS

The Star of Bethlehem: Can science explain what it really was?

Why is China going to the moon?

NASA wants to build a lunar base by 2030. Could 3D printing with moon dust be the answer?

NASA Moves Forward with Campaign to Return Mars Samples to Earth

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories

The lure of lithium gets serious

Scientists May Have Detected Radio Emissions From an Alien World

It’s time for the ‘Deplorables’ to become the Unconquerables

A moon mission to build on a new Middle-East friendship and two big Trump achievement

Recently, SpaceIL, an Israeli private group that crashed a probe on the lunar surface last year, announced that it would undertake a second attempt to land on the moon, the Beresheet 2, to take place in the first half of 2024. Interestingly, SpaceIL is seeking financial support from the United Arab Emirites for its second moon shot, according to the Times of Israel.

NASA SUGGESTS SENDING BOSTON DYNAMICS ROBODOG TO MARS

Space Force plans to nearly triple in size in second year, could accept Army, Navy transfers

Backed by SpaceX’s investor, UK-based startup Magdrive grabs £1.4M to disrupt space travel

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract to Blue Origin for New Glenn Launch Services

NASA selects the next Artemis moonwalkers while SpaceX flies a Starship

NASA Supports America's National Strategy for Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion

NASA, Canadian Space Agency Formalize Gateway Partnership for Artemis Program

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon?

Hibernating Lemurs May Be the Key to Cryogenic Sleep for Human Space Travel .

Why being kind to others is good for your health

America's Commitment to Human Space Exploration Is Unifying

HERE’S A BREAKDOWN OF WHAT THE FIRST ARTEMIS ASTRONAUTS WILL DO ON THE MOON

"Family Friendly" Firefly Reboot Coming To Disney+

Alan Tudyk plays a crime-solving alien in disguise in Resident Alien trailer

Children of Apollo

Public Chanukah Celebration Held in United Arab Emirates: ‘This Is What Real Peace Looks Like’

The UK’s quest for affordable fusion by 2040

Tucker Carlson: Does Joe Biden believe in democracy or oligarchy?

Trump will leave a lasting mark on space

Hayabusa2 asteroid sample-return capsule

Beyond Apollo: guiding the next Moon landing

Starship contradictions

NASA selects the next Artemis moonwalkers while SpaceX flies a Starship

NASA assigns astronauts for third SpaceX commercial crew mission

What’s next for Space Force as it celebrates its first anniversary

NASA Administrator Signs Statement of Intent with Brazil on Artemis Cooperation

Do Uranus’s Moons Have Subsurface Oceans?

Congress reaches compromise on clean energy deal to be attached to government funding bill

The most undeserving lifetime achievment award in history.

Chinese capsule with moon rocks begins return to Earth

Next Starliner test flight scheduled for late March

Scientists say they have come up with a potential way to make oxygen on Mars

A Brother on the Moon

Indonesia courts SpaceX as new rocket launch site

Monetizing the Final Frontier

Dear NASA: What’s in It for Me?

NASA selects the next Artemis moonwalkers while SpaceX flies a Starship

ec. 9, 2020 may well go down as a crucial day in America’s space history because of two separate but related events. One took place at the Kennedy Space Center. The other occurred in the skies over Boca Chica, Texas.

SpaceX's next Starship prototype is leaning awkwardly inside its hangar

More than half of NASA’s moon-bound astronauts are active-duty military

The Man from Mars: The Asteroid Mining Caper

NASA's Juno Spacecraft Updates Quarter-Century Jupiter Mystery

US leads in emissions reductions — what that means for Biden’s climate agenda

Virgin Galactic forced to abort key test flight of space plane

Blue Origin’s team turns in its moon landing proposal — and provides a sneak peek

Will the Biden administration slow Elon Musk's SpaceX down?

NASA and Boeing Target New Launch Date for Next Starliner Flight Test

Why Elon Musk Is Moving To Texas To Get To The Moon And Mars

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories

ZeroLabs’ electric platform converts vintage cars into EVs

NASA’s failures: Robotic space missions that didn’t go as planned

What are the ingredients of Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine?

National Geographic Orders NASA Series ‘Return To The Moon’ From ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ Producer Lightbox

Can Israelis Put Two Landers on the Moon at Once?

Jeff Bezos complimented Elon Musk's Starship rocket launch — which exploded on landing — and offered congratulations to the entire SpaceX team

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond

Hubble Pins Down Weird Exoplanet with Far-Flung Orbit

Space Station Spiders Found a Hack to Build Webs Without Gravity

Fragments of Energy May Be the Fundamental Building Blocks of the Universe

Trump unveils new national space policy for US leadership off the Earth

Will the Biden administration slow Elon Musk's SpaceX down?

So, it turns out SpaceX is pretty good at rocketing

3D Printed Rocket Parts and the Future of Spacecraft

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon?

This is what NASA wants to do when it gets to the moon

NASA selects cadre of astronauts for Artemis missions

U.S. physicists rally around ambitious plan to build fusion power plant

SpaceX Starship SN8 historic launch and landing fail

Shot: Peace between Israel and the UAE could spark joint Israeli-Arab space exploration

Chaser: “Israel is going back to the Moon,” announces SpaceIL co-founder

Similarly to the first attempt, the spacecraft will be designed and built by Israel Aerospace Industries, with local and international funding, including private donors such as businessman and billionaire Leonard Blavatnik. Israel is expected to partner with countries such as the United Arab Emirates, who recently launched a craft of their own, and signed a peace agreement with Israel in September. The project is estimated to cost $100 million.

SpaceX just scrubbed an ambitious Starship rocket launch after the engines automatically aborted

Elon Musk confirms: ‘Yes, I have moved to Texas’

Children of Apollo

Are strange space signals in Antarctica evidence of a parallel universe?

I Think We’re Ready for Aliens

Joe Biden’s Buffoonery Starts Before He Is Even Sworn In

China cannot be a space partner with the US

By all accounts, the Chinese Chang’e 5 sample return mission to the moon has been a complete success. The space probe landed on the lunar surface, drilled and scooped up a quantity of soil and rock, and took off again. The success of the mission undertaken by the communist country has elicited some tired but often repeated suggestions that world peace could be created with joint space missions between China and the United States.

Will the Biden administration slow Elon Musk's SpaceX down?

SpaceX to attempt major Starship SN8 prototype test flight Tuesday. Here's how to watch live.

NASA Defines Science Priorities for First Crewed Artemis Landing on Moon

Gabriella's Holy War

What Artemis astronauts could learn about the moon when they land in 2024

SLS Core Stage tanking test is first Green Run moment of truth for NASA

Chuck Yeager, 1st to break sound barrier, dies at 97

What sort of science will the first Americans to return to the moon be doing?

SpaceIL teases a possible second Moon landing attempt

UFO? Turns Out Lights Above Colorado Are SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites

Gabriella's War (The Vampire Gabriella Book 4)

NASA Science, New Airlock Heads to Space Station on SpaceX Cargo Spacecraft

How Did The Entire Universe Come From Nothing?

CRISPR and another genetic strategy fix cell defects in two common blood disorders

Will the Biden administration slow Elon Musk's SpaceX down?

As a result, under President-elect Joe Biden, the alliance that the government has with SpaceX is likely to end. Government will assume its accustomed role as an adversary to the commercial sector. SpaceX will likely be required to go through the environmental impact process all over again.

NASA took a photo of China's moon rock-collecting robot on the lunar surface before it rocketed back toward Earth

NASA considering commercial Mars data relay satellites

The Flight of the Grey Falcon

AOC Sneers Crenshaw Has ‘Disdain’ For ‘Working Class.’ Crenshaw Fires Back: We Who Fought In Afghanistan Will Check Our Privilege

Don’t Just Sit There — Honk Your Horn

The Voyagers Found a Small Surprise in Interstellar Space

With the Chang'e 5 launch, China takes a giant leap forward in the race to the moon

Blue Origin continues work on BE-7 lunar lander engine

NASA is about to have double Dragons at its space station

A Brother on the Moon

Vaccines Don't Save Lives. Vaccinations Save Lives.

The Dubious Philosophy of Human Extinction

Research Shows Diversity Training is Typically Ineffective

Jeff Bezos shows off Blue Origin’s BE-7 engine — and makes a bold prediction

White House asks Congress to remove Europa Clipper SLS requirement

Great minds think alike. Europa or Enceladus? If NASA switches from SLS to Falcon Heavy, it won’t have to choose

SpaceX's 1st crewed Mars mission could launch as early as 2024, Elon Musk says

After Arecibo, NASA isn't sure what comes next for planetary radar

The Man from Mars: The Asteroid Mining Caper

Breakthrough NASA Study Discovers Surprising Key to Astronauts’ Health in Space

NASA will pay a company $1 to collect moon rocks

Deep Future: The Next Supercontinent

With the Chang'e 5 launch, China takes a giant leap forward in the race to the moon

Astronauts Harvest First Radish Crop on International Space Station

Reversal of biological clock restores vision in old mice

Musings on Fusion and the Interstellar Ramjet

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age

SETI ASTRONOMER BETS YOU A CUP OF COFFEE THAT WE FIND ALIENS BY 2036

A brief history of booze in low Earth orbit.

Democrats are reaping what they sowed

China lands probe on surface of the moon and collects lunar soil

NASA weighing options for future planetary radar capabilities after Arecibo

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories

Archaeologists Believe They've Unearthed Jesus's Childhood Home

Our Solar System Is Going to Totally Disintegrate Sooner Than We Thought

Yes, the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was bad—but was it really that bad?

China Chang’e 5 probe has safely landed on the Moon

Next year it will be our turn.

NASA weighing options for future planetary radar capabilities after Arecibo

China pushes ahead with super-heavy-lift Long March 9

With the Chang'e 5 launch, China takes a giant leap forward in the race to the moon

Musk says another SpaceX test flight set for Wed

NASA starts assembling Artemis Space Launch System rocket

Children of Apollo

Bernie Sanders should opt for a government-created vaccine from China or Russia

Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” XII: What is the Waterworlds Hypothesis?

Why Iran Is Getting the Bomb