SpaceX photos from Flight 3 Starship six-engine static fire. There will be a lot of Starship launches in 2024 as SpaceX will be increasing the testing to meet the schedule for the NASA Artemis return to the moon. There needs to be refueling and fuel storage tests. Eight to twenty Starship orbital launches will be …
Analysis of the Cassini probe data shows evidence for Enceladus habitability a step further. They’ve found strong confirmation of hydrogen cyanide, a molecule that is key to the origin of life. The ocean below the ice of Saturn’s moon holds a powerful source of chemical energy. Unidentified until now, the energy source is in the …
Lex Fridman interviews Jeff Bezos about Blue Origin and Amazon. Jeff also admitted the obvious that Blue Origin’s progress has been too slow and Elon Musk is a great business leader. 0:00 – Introduction 0:24 – Texas ranch and childhood 4:02 – Space exploration and rocket engineering 16:36 – Physics 26:10 – New Glenn rocket …
There is a video of the 2002 situation where a moon conspiracy grifter harassed Buzz Aldrin when Buzz was 72. Buzz Aldrin is the second man to walk on the moon. Buzz Aldrin punched a conspiracy theorist who kept harassing him and his family and demanding that he swear on the Bible that he walked …
Lakiesha Hawkins, deputy associate administrator for NASA’s Moon to Mars program office, one of her slides (at a Congressional Committee presentation) said SpaceX is moving quickly toward the third Super Heavy/Starship launch and that this flight will include a propellant transfer demonstration. Cutaway diagram was by Tom Dixon SpaceX Has a $52 million cryogenic fluid …
Government Accounting Office (GAO) projects the HLS (Human Landing System – AKA SpaceX Lunar Starship) development takes as many months as NASA major projects do, on average, the Artemis III mission (first moon manned landing) would likely occur in early 2027. This would be a delay from the current 2025 target. GAO analysis of past …
A NASA official said Artemis will need 20 SpaceX Lunar Starship launches per moon landing. On Nov. 17, Lakiesha Hawkins, assistant deputy associate administrator in NASA’s Moon to Mars Program Office, said SpaceX will have to perform Starship launches from both its current pad in Texas and one it is constructing at the Kennedy Space …
Scientists see that private companies will develop the Moon in a Moon rush as companies race to grab valuable minerals and resources while trampling over scientifically important lunar sites. The scientists are trying to get governments to help them. This will go much like it does on Earth. The Earth gets developed and if the …
Thales Alenia Space (France) recently signed a contract with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to initiate activities on a lunar habitation module. It is called the Multi-Purpose Habitat (MPH), it aims be the first permanent outpost on the Moon. They will complete the Mission Concept Review (MCR) by the first quarter of 2024. This will …
Astrolab’s Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) rover is shown in a rendering using its robotic arm to deploy a small plant pod on the lunar surface. The plant pod, designed by Interstellar Lab, is one of the payloads FLEX will carry to the Moon on Mission 1, which is expected to be completed as soon …
3 hours and 5 minutes into the second day of the NASA NIAC 2023 symposium there is a presentation on a lunar oxygen pipeline from the moon’s South Pole. Don at Boston Metals has made a smaller reactor to make aluminum in a far smaller molten regolith electrolysis chamber than standard aluminum production. This would …