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Artemis 3 take shape

Fueling the Coming Nuclear Renaissance

Astrobotic unveils Griffin-1 lunar lander for NASA Moon Base mission

What is Helium-3 and could we get it from the moon?

Heartseed tests world’s first catheter-delivered stem cell therapy for heart failure

Experimental Treatment Directly Kills Prostate Tumor Cells While Reawakening Antitumor Immunity

Doctors Found a Way to Make Dreaming During Anesthesia Much More Common

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond #CommissionEarned

Girl Dads Take On Maine

With an Iran Deal, Trump Returns to Realism

On Energy, Democrats Can Learn From Texas

Russia appears set to finally address long-term, serious space station cracks

Building on the Moon: NASA's Architectural Strategy for Permanent Lunar Habitation

Can Future Satellites Be Reusable?

A New Path to Preventing Cancer

Data centers in space are going to happen

Woke Drama and Media Non-troversy Ensue after Artemis III All-Male Crew is Announced

Towards a faster hydrogen-based steel production

Britain Is Bringing in Some Innovative Engineering to Tackle Flooding: Beavers

The Race for Hypersonic Missiles

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

AI Can Do Math, but Is It Really Math?

Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire?

Switzerland Rejects a Population Cap

NASA’s Artemis III mission is starting to take shape NASA announced more details about the upcoming Artemis III mission, which unlike Artem...

Pegasus: The next-gen lunar rover that will leave Apollo buggy in its dust

How the historic SpaceX IPO is turning everyday workers into overnight millionaires

I was an early SpaceX employee. My equity helped me pay off student loans, buy a home, and make risky career moves.

NASA Wanted Nothing To Do With This Sci-Fi Movie That Critics Absolutely Hated

Three Cheers for Elon Musk — and America

Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

Top Tren de Aragua leader killed in US military strike, Trump announces

Elon Musk at IPO Debut: SpaceX Is About Taking The Fiction Out Of Science Fiction

SpaceX’s IPO is a display of Musk’s autocratic power

Former Congressman, former NASA Administrator and current Quantum Space CEO Jim Bridenstine opens his mind about his company's future pl...

Elon Musk is a Genius, and a Litmus Test

Astronaut Victor Glover is still trying to find the spiritual words to describe his Moon mission

NASA astronaut Victor Glover gets emotional surprise on live TV

How Elon Musk nailed the SpaceX IPO: ‘I’m not sure that this could have gone much better’

Why Robots Still Can’t Do Science

SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next?

Rokit Healthcare to begin human kidney regeneration surgery in July

Russia Has Lost Its ‘Near Abroad’

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

A Hypersonic Missile on a Beer Budget

Kathy Hochul and the ‘Gestating Parent’

Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire?

NRG Energy opens first new power plant in a decade

How to participate in the SpaceX IPO

Modular next-gen US nuclear reactor goes critical

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to make its debut on Wall Street

This Factory in Washington Is Turning Captured CO2 Into Jet Fuel

A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned

The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted #CommissionEarned

Vindication For Young Elon Musk

It’s Time for School Choice

The Revolt of Britain’s Defenders

NASA’s next space telescope is eight months ahead of schedule

As Summer Begins, Let’s Give Thanks For A Life-Saving American Invention: Air Conditioning

World First: Patient Receives High-Risk Therapy to Make Cells Young Again

10 big questions about the search for life beyond Earth

Augmented reality system could make medical ultrasounds easier to interpret

Waymo says it built a better benchmark for comparing robotaxis to humans

Democrats Make Their Platner Bed

A Simple, Unified Theory of Antisemitism

We managed to glean some interesting details about the Artemis III mission

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

Will the Pope Owe an Apology to AI?

Astronauts Could Grow Their Own Medicines in Space Using Plants

Scientists Found Bacteria Thriving Inside Fog and Eating Air Pollution

I just received a fascinating phishing attempt. A computer-generated call sounded on my phone announcing that my phone was used to buy a $3,...

California is rethinking nuclear — environmental groups should, too

Why You Can't Settle Mars or Colonize the Moon Without Real Property Rights

Does the IPCC Exaggerate Climate Science?

The Scientific Reason We Can’t Pause AI

NAS A Marches Toward Artemis III Mission in 2027, Names Crew Members

The first-ever reverse-aging drug was just injected into a human

Drone boat picked up downed US Army helicopter pilots—a first for sea rescues

Prada Helped Design the Cooling Layer NASA Astronauts Would Wear on the Moon

Only AI Can Save Social Security and Medicare

Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

Inside Trump’s Economic War on Iran

Down Goes International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan

Trump Nears the Big 8-0

SpaceX IPO Will Be a Huge Windfall for University Endowments

NASA quietly talking to Congress about more moon money

Minnesota lawmakers agree to study possibility of building new nuclear plants

7 futuristic aircraft moving closer to real-world service

Scientists Found 2 Existing Drugs Could Reverse Alzheimer's Brain Damage in Mice

How to Stop a Killer Asteroid From Ending Civilization

China Is Building a Nuclear Reactor Small Enough to Ride on a Truck

The First AI-Designed Vaccine Was Just Tested on Humans. It Could Change How We Fight Pandemics

Brain-stimulating contact lenses could open a strange new path for treating depression

Is Washington’s Millionaire Tax Already Failing?

The Perils of a Cuban Collapse

When ‘60 Minutes’ Is an Hour Too Long

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

Gordon S. Wood, a Historian Who Loved America

High-Tech Seeks Skilled Tradesmen

Taiwan Needs U.S. Arms Now

A Falcon 9 booster turns five years old—and just set a remarkable reuse record

Mark R. Whittington articles

Mark R. Whittington books

Gwynne Shotwell, the 'Glue' Executing Musk's Lofty SpaceX Ambitions

Quantum Space to Go Public Through $1.2B SPAC Merger With Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. VI Jim Bridenstine's company

NASA will wear high-tech Prada long johns to the Moon

NASA Has Big Plans for the Moon. Here Are Some of Them .

The Era of the One-Size-Fits-All Cancer Drug Is Ending

Fusion Startup’s Commercial Reactor Design Gets a Big Boost

Plants Could Be Used to Grow Medicines in Space, Study Shows

Scientists Turn Hookworms Into Living Pharmacies That Can Deliver Medicine From Inside Humans

Scientists used a contraceptive drug to grow a tiny spinal cord circuit restart nerve repair

Even Californians Are Saying No to New Taxes

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

Hope in the Shape of Man

Ukraine Is Tired and Brimming With Energy

The Food Stamp Rolls Decline—Hurray

I'm a Home Defense Expert. Here's Why You Shouldn't Try To Rape Your Burglar.

NASA’s moon base might be nothing like science fiction’s predictions One thing stands out about the moon base that NASA plans to build at t...

NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission Research Continues on Earth

Inside This SpaceX Billionaire’s Mission To Build A Fleet Of Outer Space Taxis

Morgan Stanley Sees SpaceX’s Revenue Reaching $3.4 Trillion in 2040

Google to Pay SpaceX Nearly $1 Billion a Month in Cloud-Computing Deal

Gabriella's War #CommissionEarned

NASA directs its ISS crew members to board spacecraft amid leak repair attempt

How NASA Will Take Over the Moon

How NASA Will Build A City On The Moon